LiquidRescale News

The plugin is in Fedora 7,8 and 9

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:43:41 +0000

Thanks to the efforts of Alexandru Ciobanu, the gimp-lqr-plugin and library are now officially included in Fedora 7, 8 and 9.
Supported architectures are i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64.

To install, just issue:

 yum install gimp-lqr-plugin

Fedora Core 9 i386 package for vers. 0.4.0

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:57:29 +0000

Thanks to Alexandru Ciobanu, the download page now includes a Fedora Core 9 package for i386 architecture.
(you will also need the corresponing library package, which can be found here).

Windows zip for v0.4.0 available

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:49:33 +0000

Thanks to James Huang, there is now a Windows version of the plugin available for download.
He also included a Traditional Chinese (from Taiwan) translation, which is included in the Windows zip and in a new sources release.

The new sources release also includes an update of the German translation which fixes some misspellings, by Marco Wollkopf.

Arch PKGBUILD for v0.4.0

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:18:29 +0000

Thanks to Johannes Sjölund, the new plugin version and the lqr library are now available as Arch PKGBUILDS at AUR (search for “liquid rescale” and you'll find both).

New sources release for v0.4.0

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:44:38 +0000

If you have had troubles compiling version 0.4.0, they should be hopefully solved by the update, which otherwise you don't need.

Slackware 12 i386 package for v0.4.0

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:43:35 +0000

Thanks to Francesco Allertsen, there's a Slackware 12 i386 package available in the download page.

Note that Slackware 12 still uses GIMP 2.2, so you have to get GIMP 2.4 to use the plugin.

Gentoo ebuild for v0.4.0

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:03:18 +0000

Thanks to Piotr Szymaniak, there is now a Gentoo ebuild for version 0.4.0 of the plugin (there is one for liblqr, too).
You'll find the link in the download page.

Fedora Core 8 x86_64 package for vers. 0.4.0

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:53:47 +0000

Thanks to Yu-Jie Lin, the download page now includes a Fedora Core 8 package for x86_64 architecture.
(you will also need the corresponing library package, which can be found here).

Version 0.4.0 released!

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:52:58 +0000

The new version is finally out. As announced before, the core code is not part of the plugin anymore, but is released separately as “Liquid Rescale Library” (liblqr1).
The library has to be downloaded and installed first, you can find it here.

A list of new features and fixes follows:

Core engine

Much faster core engine (released separately)
Added “max-step” setting to overcome the 45 degrees limitation in the seams angle
The “rigidity” setting has a finer grading and improved usefulness
Rescaling order can be reversed

Interface

Added more operational modes to go back to the original size automatically
Added the “Auto size” button for quick object removal
Layer names in combo menus are ellipsized

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug with transposed layers

PortableApps compatibility

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:58:58 +0000

It has been reported that the plugin now works with PortableApps GIMP version.

See the Installation instructions page for details.

Liquid Rescale Library 0.1.0 released!

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:56:22 +0000

The core of the plugin has been stripped and turned into a fast and easy to use C/C++ library: liblqr1.
The next GIMP plugin releases will be just frontends to the library.

Downloads and info here.

New x86_64 Fedora Package for v0.3.0

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:08:12 +0000

There's a new precompiled Fedora package in the Donwload section.

There's also a new version of the sources, with fixed 'it' translation.

New 0.3.0 sources

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:39:41 +0000

The new sources release should fix a compilation problem with Mac OS X Leopard.

New Windows zip for v0.3.0

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:57:21 +0000

There's a newly compiled Windows version of the plugin.
It should solve some issues with GIMP 2.4.1.

New Ubuntu Gutsy package for v0.3.0

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:29:16 +0000

There's a new Gutsy package coming along with the new sources release.
This time is not made with checkinstall, but with the proper tools, and has the full dependencies.

Please, uninstall any previous version of the plugin before installing this package!!

Plugin registration bugfix

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:24:02 +0000

There's a new source code release, 0.3.0-5, it fixes a critical bug in the plugin registration.

Ubuntu Gutsy package for v0.3.0

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:36:00 +0000

There's a bugfix in the sources, now the menu entry is correctly localized.

Also, since I upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy, I have made a package with checkinstall.
This also means that I will no longer maintain the i386 Feisty package.

Note that the help page does not work with GIMP 2.4 and the internal GIMP browser.
This will be fixed in version 2.4.2 of GIMP, in the meanwhile use an external browser for help pages visualization (Edit->Preferences->Help).

Slackware 12 package for v0.3.0

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:10:40 +0000

The Slackware package in the download page is now updated to version 0.3.0.

Added Norwegian Bokmål language

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:11:55 +0000

The plugin interface now has a Norwegian Bokmål translation.

Gentoo ebuild and layman ovarlay

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:50:10 +0000

A Gentoo ebuild for the plugin is now available, and it is also included in a layman overlay.
See the download page.

Feisty amd64 package for v0.3.0

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:36:12 +0000

New entry in the download page.

Windows archive for 0.3.0

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:07:19 +0000

The Windows version is now updated to the latest release.

Fedora and CentOS packages available

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:22:30 +0000

Version 0.3.0 of the plugin is now packaged for Fedora and CentOS.
The bug issue has been fixed.

Bugfix!

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:50:55 +0000

There was a bug in the previously released 0.3.0 version (ironically caused by the fact that I forgot to disable the DEBUG flag in the code), which produces a crash when trying to use preservation/discard layers.

It is fixed now in the sources, in the Feisty i386 version and in the Git repository, but the Fedora, CentOS and Slackware packages which appeared in these few hours had the bug. The download page for Slackware has been reverted to the previous version in the meanwhile, while the Fedora and CentOS packages are now fixed.

Sorry…

Version 0.3.0 released!

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:43:36 +0000

NOTE: using black for preservation/discard layer masks doesn't work any more, see below.

A list of new features and fixes follows:

Core engine

Faster core engine (uses pointers buffer)
Added “rigidity” to the seams computation
More sensible “Strength” scale (former “Intensity”).
Re-organized source files (the engine is now almost an external library)
The use of the preservation/discard masks is changed: the quantity used is no more the average over RGBA channels but rather the average over RGB channels multiplied by the alpha value. In this way transparent areas are truly transparent and give no contribution, but also black areas don't give any contribution. This is also consistent with the behavior of the anti-erase tool.

Interface

New interface using tabs (thanks to Alexandre)
Added tooltips
Added new features:
- “Refresh” button
- “New” button for layer masks
- “Output on a new layer” option
- “Output the seams” option
Removed the “update energy” option (it is now always used)
Floating selections can now be liquid-rescaled

Bugfixes

Fixed a memory leak in the interface dialog
All image modifications are now made inside the render function, nothing is changed automatically in the image unless the OK button is pressed.
It is possible to safely work while the dialog is running
Script-fu related bugs:
- Number of parameters bug
- Run with last values keeps the values of the preservation/discard layers