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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kpaint; Handbook</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Richard</firstname>
<othername>J.</othername>
<surname>Moore</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>rich@kde.org</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<date>29/07/1997</date>
<releaseinfo>0.04.03</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>This document describes KPaint version 0.4.3</para>
</abstract>
<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KPaint</keyword>
<keyword>paint</keyword>
</keywordset>
</bookinfo>

<chapter id="IntroductiongraphicfilerefTechnicpnggraphic">
<title>Introduction</title>

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<para>KPaint is a simple bitmap paint program. KPaint is currently <emphasis>beta</emphasis>
quality software. There is of course <emphasis>no warranty</emphasis> as this is free
software. For details of the license see the file LICENSE in the
distribution. KPaint is part of the KDE Desktop Environment, look on
<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/">www.kde.org</ulink> for more information.</para>

<para>KPaint requires version 1.33 of the Qt library from Troll Tech and libkde
available from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/">ftp.kde.org</ulink>.</para>

<para>If you have any suggestions or bug reports my mail address is
<ulink url="mailto:rich@kde.org">rich@kde.org</ulink>, please
mention kpaint in the subject line of your message. More general dicussions
about KDE should take place on the KDE mailing lists. If you are
reporting bugs then please provide as much information as possible (including
a stack trace if possible).</para>

<para>Real help is coming soon.</para>

<sect1 id="differences-from-kpaint-version-0.2">
<title>Differences from kpaint version 0.2</title>

<para><emphasis remap="bf">What's changed ?</emphasis></para>

<para>I've made further internal changes in this release to make kpaint much cleaner
internally, though this process is not complete yet. You can save files
properly (at last) setting the file types is no longer a problem, note though
that I'm still using the Qt filedialog so the globs don't work right. I've
also added network file access both load and save should work, but I still
need to give visual feedback etc.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Load and Save now work properly (though there's no jpeg write support)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You can set the file types</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added a status bar</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Fixed last window closed problem</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Swanky new icon thanks to Nico Schirwing (nico.schirwing@bigfoot.com)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network file access</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

<para>Longer term plans are in the file PLANS in the source distribution</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="planned-features">
<title>Planned features</title>

<para>This is my todo list roughly in order of priority:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Picture in picture mode for icons</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Some more tools.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Area selections and cut and paste.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Image map generation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>User interface improvements.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>File write support to more formats.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Better help.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect1>
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