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 others. 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)