New GEGL operation!

Hello,

As I mentioned, I started working on some gegl operations, and I'm glad to announnce my first official gegl operation - whirl and pinch! This operation is a port of the known gimp plugin to gegl (since eventually every gimp plugin will have to be ported).

How to install it (linux users):

1. Copy the file operations/workshop/whirl-pinch.c (from inside gegl's source tree) into ~/.local/gegl-0.1/plug-ins/
2. Make sure your enviroment contains gegl's build dependancies
3. Type 'make' inside ~/.local/gegl-0.1/plug-ins/

Now, you will be able to access the operation inside gimp (using the "GEGL Operation" tool) and get a live on-canvas preview of it!

"Whirl and Pinch" live on canvas!

BTW - last night I closed 6 gimp bugs :)

GIMP can now export PDF's!

Hello!

After some work, I'm proud to say that GIMP can now export PDF's using my new cairo-based pdf export plugin!
Go check it out - it's in the main source repository in the master branch :D

Comments and feedback are more than welcome - you have until 2.8 to affect how this plugin will work and which features it will have. Currently, it has:

• Support for multiple pages using multiple images using File->Create->Multiple-Paged PDF...
• Support for exporting text as text!!
• Support for resolutions

And it has the following optimizaiton options:

• Replace rectangles of a single color with a vector shape. This can dramatically decrease the file size (think of all the single-colored background layers that are now saved as vector instead as bitmap)
• Remove the alpha channel of layers where it's unused, to decrease the file size
• Discard layers which are not visible or are100% transparent
• Can either apply layer masks (to decrease the file size) or keep them (better quality pdf, bigger file size)

Happy Gimping!

Edit: Updated the post with details on the plugin

Updates

I'm back - Finished all the university tests finally!
Some updates:

• I got myself a working windows computer again on which I can test the compilation of GIMP - and this time it much faster (last time it was a computer with a disk access throught the network and the connection speed made the compilation 24 hours long...). I'll try to get this fixed as quickly as possible (and the IT at the university are trying to find me an even better windows computer).
• I missed the 2.7.1 release with my PDF plugin - I had too many tests...
• Decided to be a bit artistic - I submitted the new icon for the cage transform tool - you can take a look at it here.
• After finishing my course in Multicore Programming, I decided to try to do something practical with it. I'll be experimenting with multicore plugins for GIMP over the next week and I'll see what's possible (if any).