It's the book that's out of date -- not GIMP. Take the book back and get your money back.

Use Google to find out how to use GIMP. And read the available online documentation.

Bill S. wrote:

I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro. I've been trying to learn about GIMP. I bought a book about GIMP for $45. The book says there should be a menu item called DIALOGS in the FILE menu but my GIMP doesn't have the DIALOGS option. The option is very essential, but I don't have it. Also there should be a menu bar at the top of my toolbox but my GIMP has no menu bar there. Also there is something called Script-Fu or maybe TinyScheme that is missing from my GIMP. Probably many other things are missing but I don't know because I am not familiar enough.

Is there some plug-in or upgrade package that will give me the menu option called DIALOGS in the FILE menu? Has anybody here had these problems I described?

TIA

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Bill S. wrote:

I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro.   I've been trying to learn about GIMP.  I bought a book about GIMP for $45.  The book says there should be a menu item called DIALOGS in the FILE menu but my GIMP doesn't have the DIALOGS option.  The option is very essential, but I don't have it.  Also there should be a menu bar at the top of my toolbox but my GIMP has no menu bar there.  Also there is something called Script-Fu or maybe TinyScheme that is missing from my GIMP.   Probably many other things are missing but I don't know because I am not familiar enough.

Is there some plug-in or upgrade package that will give me the menu option called DIALOGS in the FILE menu?  Has anybody here had these problems I described?

Yes, there is a downgrade package called 'Gimp 2.4' that will give you the obsolete menus you described.

Chances are, there is nothing missing; it just isn't where you expect it to be.

1. there is no script-fu menu any more (although there is a 'script-fu' submenu in the filters menu, which AFAIK contains just the script-fu console). Script-fu now register in appropriate menu locations according to their respective function -- for example logo creation scripts are registered in File->Create->Logo, IIRC. 2. the Windows->Dockable Dialogs menu is probably what you actually want when you talk about the DIALOGS menu. 3. various other rationalizations and reorganizations of the menu structure have been done since your book was written.

On Saturday 05 September 2009 08:41:38 am Bill S. wrote:

I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro. I've been

trying

to learn about GIMP. I bought a book about GIMP for $45.

your book obviously was written for an earlier version of GIMP. you can of course install that earlier version instead of the later one, but i wouldn't do that; you'd loose the improvements that have been made in recent development, and you can still use your book with newer versions.

while the location of menus and options has changed in some cases, they are still available, and the procedures and techniques described in the book are still valuable. i would use GIMP's online help (http://gimp.org/docs/) to locate options that are in different places now and for new features that weren't available when the book was written.