ANNOUNCE: GdkMagick Version 0.2.1

[Arthur Jerijian <lightmanaj earthlink net>]

See below for the README file. This is a minor release of GdkMagick, with one
new API: gdk_magick_set_dither.

Thanks,
--Arthur

README for GdkMagick Version 0.2.1
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    GdkMagick Version 0.2.1, An Image Conversion and Communication Library
    for the ImageMagick and GDK Toolkits

    Copyright (C) 1999 Arthur Jerijian
  
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.
  
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU Library General Public License for more details.
  
    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
    License along with this program; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
    write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
   
GdkMagick is an image conversion and communication library for the
ImageMagick and GDK toolkits. GdkMagick includes functions which allow an
application to convert an image back and forth between an ImageMagick image
structure and a GDK pixmap, bitmap, or image structure. GdkMagick uses the
GdkRGB routines to manage color and to perform the actual image rendering,
including dithering when not enough colors are available.

The latest version of GdkMagick is available at the GdkMagick home page,
located at the following Web site:

	http://home.earthlink.net/~lightmanaj/GdkMagick

NOTE: This is an ALPHA TEST release of GdkMagick. I do not expect
this software to function properly in all cases, as it is still under
development and many features are not yet implemented. In addition, the API
is not yet frozen and is subject to change in any future release of
GdkMagick. I take no responsibility for any damages resulting from the use
of this software.

GdkMagick uses GNU Libtool in order to build shared libraries on a variety
of systems. While this is very nice for making usable binaries, it can
create difficulty when trying to debug a program. For this reason,
compilation of shared libraries can be turned off by specifying the
`--disable-shared' option to `configure'.

This ALPHA TEST release of GdkMagick is protected under the GNU Library
General Public License (LGPL). This allows for the greatest possible
freedom for developers to use and/or modify this library. The LGPL also
provides a licensing agreement compatible with that of the GDK library.

The following components are required to build and run GdkMagick:

* GNU sed, GNU make, and GNU CC. These packages are highly recommended
  for proper configuration and building of GdkMagick. You may use
  other versions of sed, make, and cc, but they haven't been tested
  and may cause possible problems during configuration and building.
  The latest GNU utilities are available at the following download
  site:

	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu

* X Window System Version 11 Release 5 or greater. This version of
  GdkMagick was tested using XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Linux and the
  default X11R5 distribution on Solaris 2.5.1.

* GLIB and GTK+ version 1.2 or greater. The latest releases of GLIB and
  GTK+ are available at the following download site:

	ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk

* The ImageMagick API version 4.2.8 or greater. The latest version of
  ImageMagick is available at the following download site:

	ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick

See the doc/ subdirectory for some API documentation and example programs.
This ALPHA TEST release of GdkMagick isn't yet fully documented, but the
documentation will be complete once GdkMagick is ready for production use.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or bug reports,
don't hesitate to send me (Arthur Jerijian) e-mail. My e-mail address is:

	lightmanaj@earthlink.net

I hope you enjoy using this software!