GPAINT(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GPAINT(1)

NAME

       gpaint - a small easy to use paint program for GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       gpaint [filename]...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page briefly documents gpaint (GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does
       not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of 'Paintbrush' from a popular  non-
       free operating system.

       gpaint is still work in progress and many features are still being developed. However, gpaint is usable and useful for simple image editing
       tasks.

FEATURES

       Currently gpaint has the following features:

       * Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes.

       * Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.

       * Preliminary print support using gnome-print.

       * Modern, easy to use user interface with tool and color palettes.

       * Multiple-image editing in a single instance of the program.

       * All the image processing features present in xpaint.

TODO

       Future plans include the implementation of zooming in/out, image scaling/rotation, and turning gpaint into a Bonobo  component  for  simple
       image editing tasks inside other programs.

BUGS

       For  bugs or general comments you can send mail to the developers list <gpaint-develop@gnu.org>, or you can enter a bug into the Debian Bug
       Tracking system. Details of how to use this system can be found on http://bugs.debian.org/.

SEE-ALSO
	X (1), gnome (1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Stephen Stafford <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used  by  oth-
       ers. It is based on the README file included in the source distribution of gpaint which was written by Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>.

								   June 7, 2001 							 GPAINT(1)