GIMP-Help NEWS
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GIMP Help 2 release 2.8.2
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- Complete translation for Brazilian Portuguese
- Many improvements for existing translations
- Bugfixes:

    * Bug: 696034 - Exporting transparency docs use "Save" instead of "Export"
    * Bug: 724056 - typo reverses meaning...
    * Bug: 719859 - File#Export menu labels have been changed
    * Bug: 719971 - Grammatical error: "addressing one of the most often received complain"
    * Bug: 720479 - Apply save/export concepts on using/web.xml
    * Bug: 720209 - Typo in web filters - GIMP manual
    * Bug: 719876 - languageVocab.xml missing in 2.8.1 release
    * Bug: 719748 - Grammatical error: "GIMP 2.8 is an another important release"

contributions from: João S. O. Bueno, Daniel Mustieles, Marco Ciampa,
Rafael Ferreira, Enrico Nicoletto, Julien Hardelin, Dimitris Spingos,
Sven Claussner, kolbjoern, Róman Joost, Piotr Drąg, SimaMoto,RyōTa,
Benjamin Kerensa, Bogdan Petcu, Christian Kirbach, Konfrare Albert,
Mariana Santos, Nils Philippsen, Willer Gomes Júnior


GIMP Help 2 release 2.8.1
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- New (incomplete) translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Catalan
- Online documentation (http://docs.gimp.org) now provides a language
  menu which allows users to switch to other translations of the same
  document if available (#168256)
- Bugfixes:

    * #168256 - Help pages should have links to corresponding pages in other language
    * #676683 - Docs use the term "dpi", GIMP UI uses "ppi"
    * #679173 - Grammatical error in Help Browser: "have there own preset system"
    * #680243 - Export File shortcut error in Gimp Manual
    * #711318 - help pages should have a link to Bugzilla


contributions from: Alexandre Franke, Alexandre Prokoudine, Alex Muñoz,
Angelo Córdoba Inunza, Christian Kirbach, Daniel Francis, Daniel
Mustieles, Daniel Winzen, Delin Chang, Dimitris Spingos, Djavan
Fagundes, Enrico Nicoletto, Felipe Ribeiro Souza, Guiu Rocafort, Jiro
Matsuzawa, João S. O. Bueno, Joe Hansen, Jordi Mas, Julien Hardelin,
Kenneth Nielsen, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Marco Ciampa, María Majadas,
Milagros Infante Montero, Milo Casagrande, Piotr Drąg, Rafael Ferreira,
Róman Joost, Seong-ho Cho, SimaMoto,RyōTa, Stéphane Poumaer, Sven
Claussner, Timo Jyrinki, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Vitaly Lomov, Willer Gomes
Júnior, Yuri Myasoedov


GIMP Help 2 release 2.8.0
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- Bugfixes: #642729, #634992, #634995, #636149
- spelling fixes and translations for: Italian, English, Spanish,
  Slovenian, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, Russian,
  German, German

contributions from: Alexandre Franke, Alexandre Prokoudine, Benjamín
Valero Espinosa, Daniel Mustieles, Dimitris Spingos, Djavan Fagundes,
dmustieles, Gil Forcada, Ignacio Antl, Isabell Long, Joe Hansen, Jorge
González, Julien Hardelin, Kenneth Nielsen, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, lnesuper,
L z, Marco Ciampa, Martin Srebotnjak, Matej Urbančič, Mel Argyropoulou,
Michael Grosberg, Mikael Magnusson, Miroslav Šulc, Philip Withnall,
Roman Joost, SimaMoto,RyōTa, Simos Xenitellis, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Vasilis
Tsivikis, Vitaly Lomov


GIMP Help 2 release 2.6.1
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- Bugfixes: #599700, #618143, #611265, #563659, #602659
- spelling fixes and new translations for: Italian, English, German, French,
  Japnese, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Korean
- XSLT Stylesheet improvements
- Build system improviements

contributions from: Alexandre Prokoudine, Andrew Pitonyak, Daniel Nylander,
JiHui Choi, Julien Hardelin, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Luis Diego Alpizar, Marco
Ciampa, Róman Joost, SimaMoto RyôTa, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Vitaly
Lomov


GIMP Help 2 release 2.6.0
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- Bugfixes: #591510, #562448, #568420, #569729, #569731, #569733,
  #569739, #574040, #572673, #557443, #576230, #577710, #556314,
  #573828, #583840, #573257, #580532, #585823, #588318, #588316,
  #544965, #569739, #591510, #591510,
- spelling fixes and new translations for: English, German, Italian,
  French, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Norwegian, Swedish
- website typo fixes

contributions from: Ulf-D. Ehlert, Julien Hardelin, Vitaly Lomov,
Alexandre Prokoudine, Andrew Pitonyak, Marco Ciampa, SiMaMoto RyoTa
(島本良太), Aron Xu, JiHui Choi, Daniel Nylander, Alessandro Falappa,
Sven Neumann, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Axel Wernicke, Žygimantas Beručka,
DCStrain, Steve Hoover


GIMP Help 2 release 2.4.2
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- Bugfixes: #515535, #529924, #546324, #550551, #551082
- Quickreference translations and improvements: Italian, Swedish,
  Norwegian, Russian
- spelling fixes new content for: German, French, Italian,
  Norwegian, Korean, Russian, English

contributions from: Andreas Dvorak, Peter Sikking, Roman Frołow, Данил
Ильиных, Kasper Hviid, Julien Hardelin, Marco Ciampa, Jean-Pierre
Litzler, Mr. Dust, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Alessandro Falappa, Kolbjørn
Stuestøl, Vitaly Lomov, Alexandre Prokoudine, Axel Wernicke, Daniel
Nylander, Žygimantas Beručka, Liam Quin, Bruce Cowan, Delphine Ménard


GIMP Help 2 release 2.4.1
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- Bugfixes: #495976, #500998, #501266, #507568, #515187, #495976,
  #501156, #50750, #450083
- new translation: Lithuanian, Polish
- spelling fixes and new content for: German, French, Italian,
  Norwegian, Korean, Spanish, Russian, English
- Quickreference translations: German, English, French, Russian,
  Swedish, Italian
- new scripts and scripts which has been updated to ensure more XML and
  content validaty

contributions from: Slava, Mickaël Schoentgen, Peter Volkov, Julien
Hardelin, Ignacio AntI, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Axel Wernicke, Marco Ciampa, Kolbjørn
Stuestøl, Vitaly Lomov, Alessandro Falappa, Sven Neumann, Patrycja
Stawiarska, Jean-Pierre Litzler, Pierre Perrier, Roman Joost, Žygimantas
Beručka, Mr. Dust, Raphaël Quinet, Harald Duvenbeck, Luigi Chiesa,
Yevgeniy Solomovskiy, Jan Herrmann


GIMP Help 2 release 2.4.0
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- documentation for GIMP 2.4
- new translations (incl. spelling and grammar fixes) for Russian,
  Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, German, English, French
- Bugfixes: #460758, #461315, #486100, #481338, #464393, #492263,
  #456331, #475553, #479974, #457061
- Bugfixes for new build system
- alternate Stylesheet for HTML

contributions from: Vitaly Lomov, Axel Wernicke, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Kolbjørn
Stuestøl, Alexandre Prokoudine, Marco Ciampa, Julien Hardelin, Ignacio
AntI, Alessandro Falappa, Ben, Burt Rosenberg, Daniel Hornung, Paul
Pronk, Patrycja Stawiarska, Mr. Dust, Albin


GIMP Help 2 release 0.13
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- new translations (incl. spelling and grammar fixes) for German,
  French, Swedish, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Dutch
- support for creating ODF files
- Bugfixes: #451901, #328427, #366715, #338580, #444791, #444381,
  #445962, #450303, #417754, #420007, #316423, #444383
- new tutorials from gimp.org
- new system to build HTML, PDF, ODF files
- Quickreference Sheet export to SVG. Thanks to Inkscape for the
  stylesheets!

contributions from: Julien Hardelin, Axel Wernicke, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Marco
Ciampa, Alessandro Falappa, Pierre Perrier, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Vitaly
Lomov, Susanne Schmidt, Alexandre Prokoudine, Ignacio AntI, Albin
Bernharsson, Mr. Dust, Daniel Richard, Róman Joost, Oliver Heesakke,
Manuel Quiñones, Sven Neumann


GIMP Help 2 release 0.12
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- new translations (incl. spelling and grammar fixes) for German,
  French, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Korean
- Bugfixes: #365439, #401263, #401886, #383306, #406233, #396404,
  #401506, #407281
- change from db2latex to dblatex stylesheets for PDF generation
- a new way has been added to manage the authors centrally in one file:
  authors.xml (like in the GIMP module). This is currently not the
  default. It needs some additional work and is currently in migration.

contributions from Ulf-D. Ehlert, Julien Hardelin, Pierre Perrier, Marco
Ciampa, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Róman Joost, Manuel Quiñones, Axel Wernicke,
Alessandro Falappa, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Mr. Dust, Sven Neumann, Peter
Volkov, Vitaly Lomov, Alexandre Prokoudine  
 

GIMP Help 2 release 0.11
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- spelling and grammar fixes for German, French, Russian, Spanish,
  Italian, Czech, Dutch

- new content for German, Spanish, Russian, Czech

- new translations: Korean, Norwegian, Russian

- Bugfixes: #378738, #333401, #339560, #339481, #341483, #342524,
  #347103, #347104, #347105, #347195, #349323, #351273, #347884,
  #346707, #356353, #356353, #361013

- Technical fixes for the Makefile and the Stylesheets. They support now
  a TOC displayed by the Gimp help browser in the development versions
  (> 2.3.13)

contributions from Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Julien Hardelin, Sven Neumann,
Manuel Quiñones, Marco Ciampa, Ulf-D. Ehlert, Michael Natterer, Pierre
Perrier, Anne Schneider, Jakub Friedl, Alessandro Falappa, Axel
Wernicke, Mr. Dust, Hans de Jonge, Kolbjørn Stuestøl, Jan Smith, Adolf
Gerold, Thomas Güttler, Oleg Fritz, Raymon Van Wanrooij, Sally C. Barry,
Vitaly Lomov, Stephen Brown, Roxana Chernogolova, Alexandre Prokoudine


GIMP Help 2 release 0.10
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- spelling and grammar fixes for czech, german, dutch, italian, english,
  chinese and french

- structured manual in three parts: Introduction, Intermediate concepts
  and tutorials and Reference

- Technical fixes: Makefile updates, PDF creation fixes for images, CSS
  updates, Print resolution of images, new scripts for editing the xml
  files and validating image references

- new GIMP Keys reference

- new language: croatian

- New content in: 
    Filters, Menus for german
    Tools, Dialogs for italian
    Filters for french, english
    Concepts for dutch

- Bugfixes: #324309, #327523, #327523, #327501, #329987, #330864,
  #330740, #322305, #330738, #314734, #316423

Axel Wernicke, Daniel Egger, Hans de Jonge, Tobias Jakobs, Julien
Hardelin, Raphaël Quinet, Markus Reinhardt, Raoul Keller, Marco Marega,
Cai Qian, Thomas Lotze, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris, Semka
Kuloviæ-Debals, Calum Mackay, Jakub Friedl, Alessandro Falappa, Marco
Ciampa


GIMP Help 2 release 0.9
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- spelling fixes and new content for german, italian, english,
  chinese and french

- XML validation fixes

- CSS cleanups

- lower depth for PNGs for the online version of the manual

- small changes to the build system

contributions from Sven Neumann, Marco Ciampa, Mike Vargas, Marco
Marega, Jakub Friedl, Cai Quian, Axel Wernicke, Julien Hardelin, Manfred
Gather, Bill Skaggs, Niklas M, Róman Joost, Karine Delvare, Alexander
Weiher, Xceals


GIMP Help 2 release 0.8
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- spelling fixes for almost every translation

- Beginning of Italian and Dutch translation

- stylesheet fixes: CSS, HTML and DB2LaTeX driver files

- XML validity fixes for french and swedish

- Makefile overhaul

- new Hacking styleguide

contributions from Sven Neumann, Cai Quian, Daniel Egger, Julien
Hardelin, Jakub Friedl, Robert van Drunen, Karine Delvare, David
Klementa, Xceals, Axel Wernicke, Róman Joost, Øyvind Kolås


GIMP Help 2 release 0.7
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- A few error-corrections.

- Import of Dave Neary's "What's New in GIMP 2.2".

- New Chinese screenshots and content.

- Beginning of a Czech translation.

- Many XML validity fixes.

contributions from Roman Joost, Bill Skaggs, Niklas M, Sven Neumann,
Cai Qian, Jakub Friedl,


GIMP Help 2 release 0.6
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A development snapshot for use with GIMP 2.2. This release includes
the user manual in chinese, czech, german, english, french and swedish.

contributions from Roman Joost, Sven Neumann, Cai Qian, Daniel Egger,
Raymond Ostertag, Julien Hardelin, 


GIMP Help 2 release 0.5
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A development snapshot for use with the gimp-2.2 pre-releases.
Included languages are chinese, german, english and swedish. The
french content has been left out of this release on request of its
authors.

contributions from Raymond Ostertag, Daniel Egger, Roman Joost,
Bill Skaggs, Cai Qian, Sven Neumann, Niklas M, Jakub Steiner,
Julien Hardelin, Sebastien Barre, Cedric Gemy, Daryl Lee,
Mel Boyce


July, 2001
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 * We've made a start on the help system. There's a heap to do though.