> Total poppycock.

What you write? ;)

> That, like hundreds of other facilities, is available as an external plugin.

Having to hunt around the internet to add basic functionality to a core
work tool is unprofessional.

> The major disadvantages are that gimp has is that the colours are only 8 bits 
> per channel. This puts it out of contention for high quality pre-press work.

See, also not good enough for professionals ;)

> Where you will see that the gimp has been accepted by the movie industry with 
> alacrity.

The movie industry... television, sounds like low-resolution and bad
picture quality to me, comparing with photography here of course.

Btw the user interface has improved no end in gimp 2. And some of the
colour tools are superb! Adjusting colours by draggable curves was last
available in xv 10 years ago.

Volker

Btw you forgot to change $SUBJECT

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