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created on the Pi in OpenOice.org with users of older software, remember to change the
format to ensure that everyone can open the iles. Alternatively, you could convince them to
install OpenOice.org themselves, which is available free for Linux, Windows and OS X.
Image Editing with The Gimp
OpenOice.org is a powerful piece of software, but one area where it lacks is in image edit-
ing. Although OpenOice.org Draw is a powerful tool for illustrative work, unfortunately,
you can't use it to touch up digital photographs. hese are known as
bitmapped images
, and
are very diferent to the vector images Draw is designed to edit.
For image editing, one of the most powerful tools available for Linux is the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, usually referred to as he Gimp. he Gimp is one of the most popular
projects in open source, because it ofers powerful features for editing bitmapped images
with a user interface that is similar to the interface that's used by the commercial Adobe
Photoshop package (see Figure 8-3).
Figure 8-3:
he Gimp
running on the
Raspberry Pi
