We spent most of the fall working ondocumentation, cleaning up bugs, and the like, and releasedGimp-Print 4.2.0 in late November.
A lot of our work wentinto automatically generating the CUPS PPD files and Foomatic data the project already supported about 200 printers with a large numberof options, and writing all of this by hand would be tedious,error-prone, and unmaintainable.
We spent mostof 2001 cleaning up the code base, adding support for CUPS (by now,Mike Sweet had joined the project) and the nascent Foomatic metadatamanagement project, improving the color generation and ditheringcode, and adding support for more printers.
Roger is a superb architect, and he quicklywhipped the somewhat disorganized code base into shape. Wewere fortunate that Roger Leigh joined the project shortly after theGimp-Print 4.0 release. We usedthe numbering scheme adopted by the Linux kernel team, whereby stablereleases were denoted by even numbers in the minor release (the “2”in 4.2) while odd numbers denoted unstable development releases. The interim stable release was to become Gimp-Print 4.2. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7. The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on OS X. On another part of the forum it was noted that X11 has to be updated via an Apple Combo 10.5.2 update. A good alternative to Gimp but has limited function.
The X11 build is still available from the secondary download link. The primary download link for this listing is the native build.
Mac users interested in Photoshop for mac os 10.5.8 generally download: Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.2.
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