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<title>The Krayon Handbook</title>
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<firstname>David</firstname><surname>Johnson</surname>
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<affiliation><address><email>david@usermode.org</email></address></affiliation>
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<contrib>First draft</contrib>
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<holder>David Johnson</holder>
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<date>2001-06-02</date>
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<releaseinfo>1.00.00</releaseinfo>
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<para>&krayon; is an image manipulation and processing program, suitable
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for photo retouching or image creation. It is a part of the &koffice;
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suite of applications.</para>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>Krayon</keyword>
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<keyword>KOffice</keyword>
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<keyword>image processing</keyword>
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<keyword>image manipulation</keyword>
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<chapter id="introduction">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>&krayon; is a full featured image manipulation program. You can
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use &krayon; for all your image creation and editing needs, such as
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making web images, touching up scanned photographs, creating original
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art, or anything else you might need to do with bitmapped images.</para>
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<para>What makes &krayon; different, and special, is ease of use
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compared with other high-end applications, and full integration with
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&koffice; and &kde;. Because of this, &krayon; supports drag and drop,
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themes, embedding, and many other advanced features you expect from a
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modern desktop environment. Ease of use is important to amateur users,
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but even more important to professional artists who must spend many
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hours a day using such applications to work with images.</para>
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<para>&krayon; is primarily a painting program with some image
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processing capabilities. More capabilities can be added with
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plugins. Using native and foreign plugins, and parts which can reuse
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other &kde; components, additional tools and utilities can be added as
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<para>&krayon; uses &XML; as its native file format. This allows import
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filters for almost every type of image file format to be easily
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created. It also allows other programs to more easily import &krayon;
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<chapter id="credits">
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<title>Credits and License</title>
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Program copyright 1999 - 2000 Matthias Elter <email>me@kde.org</email>
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<listitem><para>Matthias Elter <email>me@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Michael Koch <email>koch@kde.org</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Andrew Richards <email>physajr@phys.canterbury.ac.nz</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Carsten Pfeiffer <email>carpdjih@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>John Califf <email>jcaliff@compuzone.net</email></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>John Califf <email>jcaliff@compuzone.net</email></para></listitem>
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Documentation copyright 1999 David Johnson <email>david@usermode.org</email>
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<para>Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this document for
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any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided
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that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all
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<appendix id="installation">
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<title>Installation</title>
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<para>&krayon; is included as part of the &koffice; package of
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&kde;. Source code or prebuilt binary distributions of the &koffice;
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package can be found at the main &kde; &FTP; site, <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</ulink>, or
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from one of many mirror sites. A current list of mirror sites can be
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found at <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html">
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http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html</ulink>.</para>
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<para>In order to install and use &krayon; you must have:</para>
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<para>A functioning &UNIX; or &UNIX; like system with the X Windowing
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System configured.</para>
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<para>The K Desktop Environment 2.x (KDE 2.x). You will need at
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least the &Qt; 2.2.3 &GUI; toolkit, the kdesupport, the kdelibs, and
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the kdebase packages. Information on obtaining and installing &kde;
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2.x can be found at: <ulink
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url="http://www.kde.org/">http://www.kde.org/</ulink>.</para>
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<para>Permission to install software on your computer. If you are
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on a stand alone system, this will not be a problem. If you are
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using a networked computer, check with your administrator.</para>
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<para>Instructions for installing &koffice; from either a source code or
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binary package can be found at <ulink
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url="http://www.koffice.org/">http://www.koffice.org/</ulink>.</para>
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