[gimp-web/testing] news: update the news.
- From: Jehan Pagès <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web/testing] news: update the news.
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:07:00 +0000 (UTC)
commit 00457d0b69dcfd80ea7cf8a765e803513828bc8a
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Sun Dec 10 17:06:33 2017 +0100
news: update the news.
.../news/2017-12-XX GIMP 2.9.8 Released/index.md | 22 +++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/content/news/2017-12-XX GIMP 2.9.8 Released/index.md b/content/news/2017-12-XX GIMP 2.9.8
Released/index.md
index 9cc5dbe..8f63efd 100644
--- a/content/news/2017-12-XX GIMP 2.9.8 Released/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2017-12-XX GIMP 2.9.8 Released/index.md
@@ -86,11 +86,13 @@ transforms once the library supports ICC profiles based on lookup tables.
## Wayland support
While we already had the screenshot plug-in working under GNOME/Wayland,
-we now implemented screenshots for KDE/Wayland.
+we now implemented screenshots for KDE/Wayland (though it misses [rectangular
+area selection](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387721)).
-The Color Picker widget will now also work in KDE/Wayland. There is no
-color-picking interface in GNOME yet for Wayland, so as a workaround, color
-picking will only work inside GIMP windows for this platform.
+The Color Picker widget will now also work in KDE/Wayland.
+Note that there is still [no color-picking interface in GNOME for
+Wayland](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789756), so as a workaround,
+color picking will only work inside GIMP windows for this platform.
Color-picked and screenshot pixels are not color-managed yet in Wayland.
@@ -137,11 +139,13 @@ more expected results now.
* Various fixes were done to PSD format support.
* Password-protected PDF files can now be imported in GIMP.
-* HGT files can now be imported. HGT format is the format for [Digital Elevation
- Model data by the NASA](https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/Documentation/SRTM_Topo.pdf).
- GIMP now supports both the SRTM-1 and SRTM-3 types which will be imported as
- grayscale RGB images, on which you will want to map a gradient in order to
- obtain more visible relief information.
+* HGT files can now be imported. HGT is the format for [Digital Elevation Model
+ data by the NASA and other space
agencies](https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/Documentation/SRTM_Topo.pdf).
+ GIMP now supports both the SRTM-1 and SRTM-3 types (as far as we know, the
+ only 2 variants) which will be imported as grayscale RGB images.
+ In order to obtain more visible relief information, you will want to map
+ altitudes to colors, for instance with "Gradient Map" filter as we did in the
+ example image below.
<figure>
<img src="{filename}images/gimp-2-9-8/GIMP-import-hgt.png" alt='Importing HGT files in GIMP' width='950'
height='616'>
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]