A full gimp install including all the gimpdata packs can be 20 megs or more. Id like to install the gimp user manual on my computer so i can use the inprogram help and read the manual offline. You may have to install the help pages from a separate package gimphelp, depending on how your version of gimp was packaged. Once youve installed and opened gimp, you should check out the help tab in the gnu image manipulation program toolbar. On a p4 or athlon with 256 megs of ram, a build can take 2030 minutes. From help, find the user manual, to assist you in using all of gimps. If you want to use this local help offline, you will need to change gimps help settings. How to get and install gimp for your system and troubleshooting. There is also a gimp user manual available at docs. Gimp user manual gimp comes with a builtin help system.
The gimp manual has to be installed manually, otherwise get the help online. For easy installation we suggest that you wait until an installer for this release has been packaged for your platform. By default, they will place the help files with your gimp installation. If you need help with the installation of windows gimp, see. I tried the latest installation package and its still saying the help manual is not installed locally. This release provides only the sources to build the help used by the gimp help browser. This page is for installation help for the unix version of gimp. For user manual, select use a locally installed copy under help browser, you can choose between your systems web browser and gimps help browser plugin if available. Dov grobgeld author of a tutorial for perl gimp users.
Once you have started the program, press f1 for contextsensitive help. Software, free instruction manual gimp is expandable and extensible. A full compile of the stable version takes 12 hours on a ppro 200 or k6 200 with 64 megs of ram. In gimp, select edit preferences help system for user manual, select use a locally installed copy. The gimp user manual is not installed on your computer. Find more releases and information about our goals and how you can help at.
909 1441 1409 437 866 884 504 1620 89 716 1165 767 1048 1374 1089 1455 1243 494 530 151 296 977 785 1197 538 1215 751 498 126 398 853 912 768 1231 335 1283 368 1056 1046 1098 1390 1120 400 1140