1CinePaint(1)                   Version-$VERSION                   CinePaint(1)
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NAME

6       CinePaint - 32-bit image painting and retouching
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SYNOPSIS

11       cinepaint [option ...] [files ...]
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DESCRIPTION

16       CinePaint  is  different  from other painting tools because it supports
17       deep color depth image formats up to 32-bit per channel deep. For  com‐
18       parison,  GIMP  is limited 8-bit, and Photoshop to 16-bit. To avoid bit
19       depth confusion, note that 48-bit scanners are 16-bit per  channel  and
20       24-bit  monitors  are  8-bit  per channel. Like with audio, extra image
21       bits can hold higher fidelity.
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23       CinePaint supports high fidelity image formats  such  as  32-bit  TIFF,
24       10-bit log Cineon, and 16-bit half float OpenEXR. It also supports less
25       exotic formats such as JPEG, GIF and PNG. For historical reasons, Cine‐
26       Paint's  native  format  is  16-bit  XCF, a variant of the GIMP format.
27       Internally, CinePaint works in 8-bit unsigned, 16-bit unsigned,  16-bit
28       binary fixed point, 16-bit chopped float, or 32-bit IEEE float. Support
29       for 16-bit half float is coming.
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31       CinePaint includes a built-in flipbook for playback of image sequences.
32       It  does not yet support audio playback or synchronized 24fps playback.
33       It doesn't yet support editing, DV, M-JPEG, AVI, Quicktime, or MPEG.
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35       CinePaint runs on all popular flavors of Linux and on Mac OS  X  as  an
36       X11 application. A native Mac Aqua port of CinePaint is in development.
37       The Windows port of CinePaint is currently broken, but may be available
38       again in 2005.
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OPTIONS

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44       Usage: cinepaint [option ...] [files ...]  Valid options are:
45         -h --help              Output this help.
46         -v --version           Output version info.
47         -b --batch <commands>  Run in batch mode.
48         -n --no-interface      Run without a user interface.
49         --no-data               Do  not  load  patterns, gradients, palettes,
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51         --verbose              Show startup messages.
52         --no-splash            Do not show the startup window.
53         --no-splash-image      Do not add an image to the startup window.
54         --no-shm               Do not use shared memory between GIMP and  its
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56         --no-xshm              Do not use the X Shared Memory extension.
57         --console-messages      Display warnings to console instead of a dia‐
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59         --debug-handlers       Enable debugging signal handlers.
60         --display <display>    Use the designated X display.
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62       The no-interface mode has never worked, but a new  architecture  called
63       img_img is under development to provide headless operation.
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ENVIRONMENT

66       DISPLAY - default host and display number.
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68       XENVIRONMENT  -  name  of  a  resource  file  that overrides the global
69       resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property
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FILES

72       $PREFIX/bin/cinepaint - program
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74       $HOME/.cinepaint - user configuration/data
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76       $PREFIX/lib/cinepaint/$VERSION - plug-ins, etc.
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78       $PREFIX/share/cinepaint/$VERSION - configuration/data
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86       $HOME/.cinepaint/tmp - temp space default
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90       palettes - palette files
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92       patterns - pattern files
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94       gradients - gradient files
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96       scripts - scripts used in Script-Fu
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SEE ALSO

104       CinePaint was originally based on GIMP 1.0.4, but has had many indepen‐
105       dent  contributions  and  has  adopted  code  from  other  open  source
106       projects. This code is a mixture of GPL, LGPL and BSD  licenses.  Copy‐
107       rights are to the original authors, which are many.
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109       For information about open source licenses see www.opensource.org.
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SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS

112       Report  bugs  or  feature  suggestions  to  the  mailing  list at cine‐
113       paint-developers@lists.sourceforge.net or the online bug-tracking  sys‐
114       tem available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/. Anyone can
115       post to the developers list, but posting to  the  bug-tracker  requires
116       logging  into  SourceForge. Patches are welcome and can be submitted to
117       the SourceForge site.
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119       When reporting bugs please include description, instructions to  repro‐
120       duce the bug, version number of CinePaint and OS version.
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OTHER INFO

123       CinePaint  began in 1998 as a project sponsored by motion picture tech‐
124       nology company Silicon Grail  (later  acquired  by  Apple)  and  visual
125       effects  studio  Rhythm & Hues. The goal was to add deep paint to GIMP.
126       By 2000 a CVS branch of GIMP known as Film Gimp offered that feature.
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128       GIMP had begun in 1995 as a class project at the University of Califor‐
129       nia Berkeley, but the original student developers left GIMP after grad‐
130       uation. The GIMP student effort was mostly taken over  by  hackers  who
131       wanted  to  further the GNU cause. In 2000 the GIMP hackers and Silicon
132       Grail ceased work on the Hollywood-based development of GIMP.  Although
133       everyone  at  GIMP  (mostly based in Germany) thought it was dead, Film
134       Gimp development continued independently in Hollywood at Rhythm &  Hues
135       and then spread to Sony Pictures Imageworks.
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137       On  July  4,  2002,  Film  Gimp  was  released to the general public on
138       SourceForge. Many more developers joined the project. A year later  the
139       project was renamed CinePaint. The current developers of CinePaint have
140       never had any affiliation with the GIMP project.
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AUTHORS

145       Programmers at Rhythm & Hues,  Sony  Pictures  Imageworks,  DreamWorks,
146       ILM,  other companies, and universities have contributed to CinePaint's
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149       For a list of authors see www.cinepaint.org.
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151       Robin Rowe
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