GIMP Portable Development 2.7.3 has been released. GIMP Portable is the full-featured GIMP image and photo editor bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can edit your photos and images on the go. This new release allows you to try out the upcoming features, including the new single-window mode, in GIMP 2.8 early without impacting your standard GIMP or GIMP Portable install. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. Best of all, it's open source and completely free.
Install from the app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. Learn more about the GIMP...
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
GIMP Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It's packaged in the PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
GIMP Portable Test is available for immediate download from the test section of the GIMP Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Single-Window Mode
Just click Windows and then Single-Window Mode to try out single-window mode. Of note in this release, saving to JPG, PNG and other common formats is now under the Export menu selection. And, as a development release, the command line window will stay running while the app is running to show any issues that may occur to aid in bug reporting.
Seems to be an error in the updater's .ini file entry for this
If you try to install this through the platform, you get a 404, as it is looking for http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/GIMPPortable_2.7.3.paf.exe where I believe the file is actually called GIMPPortableTest_2.7.3.paf.exe
Fixed
You're right, it should have been GIMPPortableTest. I've fixed the issue in the database. My apologies for the issue.
Great!
thank you! love GIMP
...Simply lovely , thank you
...Simply lovely, yeah!
Thank you so much for this kind of portable earlier versions that brings to the impatients the oportunity of play with all this new stuff, I just can't wait for a final version including the Single-window Mode!
Thanks for the preview
This is a nice preview of 2.8 to come. It does have some considerable bugs; on my W64 Home Premium, it crashes every time I use the text tool (it's a gdk bug) but that's on GIMP, not the Portable portion.
GIMP has been doing a great job of providing dev tracking info. They post milestones on their website, and they have a graphical tracking tool here:
http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8
Error in \App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\interpreters\pygimp.interp
The paths in file GIMPPortableTest\App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\interpreters\pygimp.interp to pythonw.exe are not relative and fail if the expected version of python is not installed in the standard windows location