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)