Graphics Applications We won’t dwell on this application, but we’ll note that the user interface is again easy to use and provides a simpler (if less flexible) alternative to the cdrecord option. You simply use the top part of the dialog to locate the files you want to record, drag them across to the bottom part of the dialog (which represents the CD-ROM drive), and select the Record option. Graphics Applications There are numerous graphical applications installed within Red Hat Linux; some exist as part of KDE or GNOME. Others can be found within application suites such as OpenDraw (which is included within OpenOffice), and yet others are standalone applications written for the sole purpose of manipulating images. In this chapter, we’ll concentrate on the applications that are installed by default with Red Hat Linux 9: The GIMP, PDF Viewer, GQView, and OpenDraw. Most of these are contained within the Graphics package group (which you’ll find under the Applications category of the RPM), and can be found in the Main Menu | Graphics menu. The GIMP The GNU Image Manipulation Program (or GIMP, as it’s affectionately known) is a very powerful piece of software used for graphic manipulation and is equally at home as a simple paint program as it is at retouching photographic images you may have. It may be extended using the plug-in technology common to a number of Linux applications but may also be enhanced by using the internal scripting interface that allows you to automate tasks. The GIMP has been released under the GNU General Public license and as such is freely distributed software. It is installed by default within Red Hat Linux 9 and it has a web site at http://www.gimp.org/, where you’ll find documentation, support, and downloads. You can start the application by selecting Main Menu | Graphics | The GIMP, or by typing gimp at the command line. A variety of configuration and control windows appear when you start the application, and you can control which dialogs are open at any given time by using the File | Dialogs menu of the main GIMP window (which is the top-left of the three windows shown below): 154
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