[PIMP-Announce] ANN: PIMP Version 0.8 Released

[Phil Edwards]

The latest release of PIMP is now available for download from:

http://www.linux2000.com/pimp.html

This release fixes a long-standing problem in earlier versions of PIMP. The 
image display routines were fine for cameras with fairly small output files, 
but were far too slow to be useable with bigger files. In practise, as soon 
as you started trying to view pictures bigger than about 3.5 megapixels, it 
slowed to an absolute crawl. 

I've re-written the image display code completely, resulting in a 10-15 times 
speedup in performance. Display of even 12 megapixel files from my Fuji S7000 
now only takes 1.5 seconds. The normal 6 megapixel files display instantly. 
I've also fixed a bug in the image export routines, and added an option to 
preferences to allow images to be viewed in full screen mode by default. See 
the changelog below for full details.

PIMP pretty much does what I want it to do now, so I probably won't be making 
another release for some time. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you 
think you've found a bug in the program, though, as I will still be doing 
bug-fixes.

Changelog:
    - added an option in prefs to always view an image in full screen
      mode
    - fix bug in image export code which meant you could only export
      using a filter - you can now export images by selecting them
      on the main window with the mouse
    - updated manifest.in, pimp.spec and pimp.iss to reflect latest
      code changes
    - removed old slide show class from customDialogs
    - slideshow and image viewer now use the same code
    - removed old image viewer class from customDialogs
    - added picView.py to manifest.in, an image viewer class with much
      better performance than the old one