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Introduction
Disclaimer
Babygimp is free software, so use it at your own risk without
warranty.
Description
Babygimp is an icon editor written in Perl/Tk. The goal of Babygimp was to
provide an icon editor which
- is easy to use,
- is easy to install,
- nevertheless provides enough features to create really cool icons
- gives quick results.
Since Babygimp is entirely written in Perl it is not apt for handling
large images. However for small icons Perl is efficient enough.
Features
At the moment Babygimp provides among others the following features:
Limitations
Since Babygimp is written entirely in Perl it is of course not very fast.
Therefore it is not a good idea to use Babygimp for large images (its only
Babygimp, not the real Gimp).
However for small icons it should be fast enough. (I wrote it mainly in order
to have a tool for creating 16x16 pixmaps for the Icewm and 48x48 pixmaps for
Windowmaker.)
Requirements
Basically you need only Perl/Tk.
In order to take full advantage from the plugin support it is recommended
to have the Netpbm package, ImageMagick or something equivalent
installed.
Installation
Babygimp needs no ``installation''. Just copy it somewhere into your path and
set the appropriate permission (chmod a+x babygimp). If your perl is not
located in /usr/bin you have to change the first line of babygimp, e.g.
``#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w'' instead of ``#!/usr/bin/perl -w''. The shell
command ``which perl'' shows you where your perl is installed.
Babygimp will create the directory .babygimp with several subdirectories
in your home directory when it is started first. If you want to try the
example plugins included in the distribution, just copy them to
$HOME/.babygimp/plugins. Note, that these example plugins depend on external
programs and may not work on your particular system. For details, read the
plugins section.
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