	This is the README for The GIMPressionist
	(c) 1998 Vidar Madsen - vidar@prosalg.no

	The GIMPressionist is free software, and may be distributed
	freely, provided this file is included!

	This program comes with no warranty, whatsoever. The author
	can not be held liable for any damage caused by proper or
	improper use of this program.

--- Introduction

The GIMPressionist is a plug-in for the GNU Image Manipulation Program,
a.k.a. the GIMP. It can be used to create natural looking painting effects
and similar.

The current version is still a bit shaky, and is to be considered beta
software. I'll do some serious testing, hopefully across a few more
platforms, as soon as I can.

The official Web-page is http://www.prosalg.no/~vidar/gimpressionist/
and will always contain a link to the latest version.

--- Compiling / Installing

To compile (hopefully):
	make

To install plug-in and accompanying files:
	make install

The plug-in installs itself under $HOME/.gimp/plug-ins/ and copies a
couple of files into the directory $HOME/.gimp/gimpressionist/.  The
subdirectories 'Brushes', 'Paper' and 'Preset' will be created during
"make install", and two files (more will come)  will be added; 
'defaultbrush.pgm' and 'defaultpaper.pgm' under their respective
directories. These are vanilla .PGM files, which could be edited (and
created) with any decent program - like the Gimp! :-)

WARNING: The behaviour described above has been changed for inclusion
	 of the plug-in in the gimp-plugins-unstable distribution. The
	 Makefile created by configure installs the plug-in into 
	 the place where all the plug-ins are installed (depending on 
	 your setup). 
	 The data-files are put into ($gimp-data-dir)/gimpressionist 
         and the GIMPressionist should find them there. To add your own
	 data-files you have to create a directory 'gimpressionist' in 
         your .gimp directory, create directories 'Brushes', 'Paper' 
         and 'Presets' in there.
	 ( Sven <sven@gimp.org> )

--- Feedback

If you have any comments, criticism, ideas for improvement or new
features, or if you run into problems of any sort, let me know, so that I
can (try to) fix it for the next release! (And, if you find platform-
dependant bugs, please try to patch them and send me a patch!)

Vidar Madsen <vidar@prosalg.no>
