This is the changelog for the release of a new minor version (numbered 2.0.2) of the G’MIC image processing framework.
As you may know, every major version (here, latest 2.0.0) always requires a few adjustments, so here they are !
Despite the minor release number and the few changes, there have been important modification in the G’MIC stdlib syntax which makes it not backward-compatible with the previous stable release (2.0.0). Thus, addition of new filters and bug fixes will be possible from now only for versions 2.0.2+.
Important note:
The GTK version of the plug-in should now be considered as outdated and won’t be maintained anymore. It is highly recommended to switch to our new (and better) Qt-based plug-in instead.
What is G’MIC?
G’MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing. It provides several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, thus including 2d color images.
[gimp] New supported parameter names filein() and fileout() to allow file selector being in the right mode.
[stdlib] New commands -argmax and -argmin compute the argmin and argmax images of a sequence of input images.
[stdlib] New function is_intriangle(P,A,B,C) in math library (command -math_lib) which tests if a point P is located inside given triangle ABC.
Improvements:
[stdlib] Command -thinning has been recoded from scratch with new optimizations (is approx. 20-30% faster).
[stdlib] Command -colormap has been optimized a lot, and is really faster when the number of desired entries in the colormap is high.
[core] Multiple variable assignments and updates are now allowed, with expressions name1,name2,...,nameN=value or name1,name2,...,nameN=value1,value2,...,valueN where assignment operator = can be replaced by an arithmetic operator (e.g. +=). New string concatenation operator .= is also allowed for variables. See this link for more details.
[core] When needed, G’MIC uses ImageMagick as a fallback to perform file I/O. IM 7’s command magick is now used when found, instead of convert (useful for Windows users).
Bug fixes:
[gmic-qt] Replace flag -Ofast by -O3 when compiling gmic-qt (-Ofast makes nasty things with NaNs and some filters were not working as expected).
Just one thing with 2.0.1: I use the dark theme, and in this case the zoom level font becomes white, over a white background, and is thus only invisible.
one question: is this ok, when i try to open some .cube files from the ‘huldclut filename open dialog box’. i have ‘save’ command instead of ‘open’. this is not big deal for me, but i just noticed that. here’s the screenshot how its looks:
Yes, the search filter has disappeared, because the Qt-based interface has already one.
I strongly suggest to install this one, instead of using the GTK interface, as it will be discontinued in the future.
I am very new to Linux and am playing around with Kubuntu (17.04) at the moment. Maybe my observation is helpful for someone. If this topic has been addressed somewhere else, feel free to delete my post. I am working with GIMP 2.8.20.
I downloaded the Gimp-plug-in “gmic_ubuntu_zesty_amd64.deb” and after installing it I got a working GTK-plug-in but I wanted to work with the QT-version.
After removing the plug-in I downloaded the latest G’MIC-QT-plug-in “gmic.eu/files/prerelease_linux/gmic_gimp_qt_linux64.zip” and got the following error message when starting gimp from the terminal:
…/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
GMIC didn’t show up in Gimps’s filters menue. Searching for libpng packages on my system showed that all packages were related to version 1.6. A workaround was installing libpng12 manually (had to, because I didn’t find it in the package manager) but I read that installations from outside a package manager are not recommended in Ubuntu so I removed this package and followed the instructions on the G’MIC-website and compiled the Gimp-plugin on my system. I copied the compiled QT-plug-in into Gimp’s plug-in folder and it is working fine so far.
Thank You David! (and to all the people involved)
I’m Using it with Ubuntu 17.04 and Gimp 2.9.5 in parallel with the 1.7.9 version and it’s a great step forward
Fullscreen button:
Set the QT window to Fullscreen, close and open it again. Fullscreen is no longer toggled even though the window is in full screen mode. Click on the Fullscreen button twice to return to windowed mode.
I’ll be building qt versions in the next iteration.