#GIMP MAC LOOKING FOR FONTS SOFTWARE#
That’s a very cool, techie kind of origin which gives one the feeling that you’re using a kind of insurgent software designed to challenge “The Man” who takes the form of Adobe in the DTP world. For wider dissemination it has also been made available for Windows and for any Unix operating system, including Linux and Mac OSX. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation System, and it was originally designed to be part of the GNU package of free, opensource software applications to go with the GNU operating system. Sadly, after considerable testing, I have had to conclude that despite promising qualities, GIMP (downloadable from is not one of them. Photoshop is a great program, but as I discovered when I went looking for cheap programs to replace to InDesign and Quark, there are viable alternatives available at a reasonable price. Not every graphic designer works for a huge advertising or prepress company and that kind of expense is something most of us would have to think twice about. By my calculation, if you bought Photoshop and kept it up to date over the course of the last three years you would have paid well over $1000 not including the additional hundreds of dollars to get essential state of the art plugins. Just as I did a while ago with Desktop Publishing programs, I’ve started a search for a low-priced or freeware alternative to Photoshop with which both Mac and Windows users can do effective graphic design work without having to pay an outrageous price.
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