Hp web site - CHAPTER 12 ADDITIONAL TOPICS 481 Gathering this
CHAPTER 12 ADDITIONAL TOPICS 481 Gathering this information can take time, but think about it this way: if you re hoping the developers will volunteer some of their free time to fix the bug, it can help a lot if you spend some of your own time making their jobs a little easier. If the problem only happens with certain images, it s very helpful if you can attach an image that the developers can use to reproduce the problem. (If they can t make it happen themselves, they won t be able to fix the bug.) If you can reduce your sample image to something relatively small and simple, that s ideal. To attach an image (or anything else besides text) to a GIMP bug, click on Create a New Attachment. If you re filing a new bug, you ll have to submit the basics of the bug first, and then go back to it and add the attachment. Bugzilla can be intimidating the first few times you use it. But don t let it scare you. If you ve found a GIMP bug, the developers want to hear about it so they can fix it. Finding Source Code at cvs.gnome.org The GIMP s source code is stored using the Concurrent Version System program, or CVS, on a machine called cvs.gnome.org. If you have CVS installed, you can check out the latest version of the GIMP the one the developers are working on at any time. The GIMP website has instructions on how to do that. But even if you don t have CVS, and don t want to download the entire GIMP source code (about 15MB), you can view specific files and their revision histories using the web interface to CVS: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/. You can click on folder names to navigate to those folders, or on file names to view the revision history of the file (all the changes that have been made to it recently). If you want to see the current contents of a file, you can click on View to get a pretty colorized version, or Download to get a raw copy of the file that you can save to your local disk. This is an easy way to get copies of plug-in source to use as a basis for your own plug-ins. Where to Find Freely Available Images Sometimes you need a photo for a project, and you just can t find anything quite right in your own collection. Darn it, I wish I had my own photograph of an erupting volcano, or of the Sphinx but my travel budget doesn t allow for either one. What can a poor GIMP user do? Look on the web, of course! The problem? Most images are copyrighted by the person who created them. It s not ethical or legal to use someone else s photographs in your own project without permission. If it s just for your own use, or for GIMP practice, you might be able to get away with it. But if it s an image you re planning to post on the web, distribute to other people, or especially if you re using it for any sort of money-making purpose, it s important to use images with copyrights that allow re-use. Fortunately, there s a movement to make more forms of information freely available, and several projects have been created to help people share their images. In some cases, the images are free for non-commercial use, but if you intend to make money with the image, you must contact the person who owns the copyright. Other images are free even for commercial use. In addition, quite a few US government agencies put their images in the public domain, meaning they are free to use for any purpose because the images have already been paid for with taxpayer money. Government sites can offer excellent images on quite a range of subjects, and you may not need to look any further.
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