GFXMuse Tools v0.3

Welcome to the Graphics Muse Tools, otherwise known as GFXMuse Tools.
These tools are designed and/or written by Michael J. Hammel.  They are
made available free of charge for personal use.  Please see the LICENSE
file for more information on redistribution of these tools.

The GFXMuse Tools have been checked to work against Gtk 1.2 and with both
Gimp 1.0 and Gimp 1.1.6 or later.


Building the plug-ins
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Just do the following:

0. Edit config.h - only a couple of items there you might need to change.
1. xmkmf
2. make Makefiles
3. make
4. make dist

After this, the various plug-ins can be found under the bin-d directory.
Copy these to $HOME/.gimp/plug-ins and then restart the Gimp and
you'll be ready to go.  The following command should work for you:

% cp bin-d/* ~/.gimp/plug-ins


Patterns and Brushes
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Patterns and Brushes have been moved to separate packages to keep the
download sizes down a bit.  You can find them at TheGimp.com, under the
sections for Patterns and for Brushes.

The patterns and brushes can be copied directly from their directories to
their respective directories under your .gimp directory in your home
directory.  The following commands should work for you:

% cp brushes-d/* ~/.gimp/brushes
% cp patterns-d/* ~/.gimp/patterns

Note:  The grunge brushes are courtesy of Digital Video Magazine
(www.dv.com).  I converted them from a freely downloadable TIFF file for
use with the Gimp.  See the file "README.grunge".


Known Bugs
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The ArrowGFX plug-in doesn't work with the Paintbrush option in Gimp 1.1.x.  
It appears that, as of the Gimp 1.1.6, the API for the paintbrush is
broken.  This problem is only for the Gimp 1.1.x version of ArrowGFX.  For
Gimp 1.0.x, ArrowGFX should work with any of the brush options.


Bug Disclaimer
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Please note that this is an early release of these tools.  They have been
fairly well tested by me, but are still likely to contain some bugs.
Please email me with any bugs you find, no matter how small, with as much
detail as you can to describe how you came across the problem.  Also,
please do not send code snippets or core files without first checking with
me.  I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.


Thats it.  There is online help available for all the plug-ins.  Just click
on the Help button at the bottom of any of the plug-in dialogs.


Enjoy!

Michael J. Hammel
The Graphics Muse
mjhammel@graphics-muse.org
http://www.graphics-muse.org
