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nip4 9.0.15-1

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Descriptionspreadsheet-like graphical image manipulation tool

nip4 is a graphical front end to the VIPS package.

VIPS is an image processing system designed with efficiency in mind. It is good with large images (ones that larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with colour. It can perform many image manipulation tasks much faster than other packages such as ImageMagick and the GIMP and includes some special features such as creating single "mosaic" images from multiple parts.

VIPS consists of two main components: an image processing library with some command-line tools and a spreadsheet-like graphical user interface. This package supplies the graphical interface.

With nip4, rather than directly editing images, you build relationships between objects in a spreadsheet-like fashion. When you make a change somewhere, nip4 recalculates the objects affected by that change. Since it is demand-driven this update is very fast, even for very, very large images. nip4 is very good at creating pipelines of image manipulation operations. It is not very good for image editing tasks like touching up photographs. For that, a tool like the GIMP should be used instead.

MaintainerLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Changed ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Sponsorgcs@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany
Closes#1132190
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nip4
Uploaded4 hours ago

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Distributionexperimental
DateSat, 10 Jan 2026 17:18:04 +0100
Sourcenip4
Version9.0.15-1
Changed-ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecturesource amd64
Changelog
nip4 (9.0.15-1) experimental; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (closes: #1132190).
.dsc
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listnip4 deb graphics optional arch=any
Sectiongraphics
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 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
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 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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 version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

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