Hello everyone,

The next release of G'MIC (numbered 1.6.9) is planed for the next week. Today, I've released some pre-release binaries for Windows and Linux (32 and 64bits). The git repo is also up-to-date. Is there any volunteer to install this pre-release version and tell me if all is working as expected ?
There have been a lot of improvements in the embedded math evaluator, and I might have missed some (probably minor) regressions.
Your help to hunt those remaining bugs (if any) will be highly appreciated 

Here is the link where you can download and install the pre-release version of G'MIC : http://gmic.eu/files/prerelease/

Thanks!

Your link doesn't seem to work

Link works for me. Only tested on a few GIMP/G'MIC presets and they all work, David. Not a great alpha/beta tester though, but so far appears to work fine in GIMP.

Windows/ 10 64 bit here. All seems well David. Thank you for the new release by the way.

Installed 1.6.9 pre on my day-by-day PC (no "safe" backups, I trust G'MIC....)
So far no errors.
A part from using it whenever required, I ran thru the first two submenus.
Only two comments/doubts:
1-Arrays > Extract objects
I don't know whether the behaviour is the same as on previous releases
but my first reaction has been: why the objects recognized and extracted (correctly)
are extracted WITH the existing background and NOT on a new transparent background?
2-Artistic > Shapeism
(very) slow

Thanks David for your continuous effort on providing a such wonderful tool !

Chocolate sent ... testing
Installed linux 64 bit on Mint 17.1
Works, but haven't tested many filters yet.

EDIT:
I love pre releases. And I like most things about open source. So I always try to help. But I don't know whether to praise or curse You for this! I tried ten random filters on some files for a huge project I am working. All seemed to work as intended.

But now I have to go back 3 months in my work flow and make changes as these improvements are too great to leave out!

EDIT 2: By the way, some of these files are huge (1.5 to 4 GB memory footprint). While some of the "heavier filters" (Dream Smoothing) are far from fast, they are handling it. (I-7 with 16 GB Ram)

I went also thru BLACK&WHITE submenu
everything OK
only comment: Pencil Portrait (which I like a lot) still very slow

Error: got this --


Process:

1. Selected an RGBA layer (90.7 MB when saved as a file with nothing else in it, all paths etc removed)
2. Ran the filter with default settings on the normal image (1.2 GB, many layers + paths and channels)
3. Ran fine (but slowly as expected)
4. in Gimp: Filters -> Reshow G'MIC
5. Add to Favorites
6. "OK" button

It was obviously trying to run it again, but I had the same layer selected as originally (verified this). Only difference was the new "Reference" layer, and file size (now 1.8 GB). Four more attempts caused same result.

Repeat of steps got same result.

Same after a restart of gimp and repeat of steps (including initially successful run)

Thanks jazzon for the kind words (and the hot chocolate of course ).

I've tried replicating the issue on my machine, and followed your step, but everything works fine for me. I'm running G'MIC on Ubuntu though.
Could it be possible to generate a log file just before reproducing the error ? To do so, you need to select "Output Messages" -> "Debug mode (logfile)"
just under the Preview window, then run the filter (that makes the error).
The logfile is located in %APPDATA/gmic/gimp_log.txt. If you can copy/paste it somewhere (maybe on pastebin?) so I can analyze what is going on, that would be perfect

Thanks again!

processing now...will post shortly

Ok Weird.

Now I cannot reproduce it either. Even went as far as removing it from favs, and doing the whole process again.

No changes in between except a reload of the image. Not even a computer off, but it did go to standby.

Will keep log mode turned on for a while (will check at each use) and see what results. If it occurs again I will forward to You.

There is also a build for Mac users from yesterday evening! See gmic downloads!
http://karo03.bplaced.de/gmic/git/Macgm ... semite.dmg

Just noticed something else.

On load the image in question is 1.2GB (reported on gimp status bar)
Post run (successful) the first time, it was 1.8 GB.
Post run (successful) this time, it was 1.3 GB.

Where'd the .5 GB go?

Got lucky.
I was working on a script of my own when all this started, and I forgot about the fact I was running gimp from command line as --verbose -c
Scrolled way back in my (fortunately infinite) shell, and found this

So, apparently my first report was wrong in it's facts.
It turns out I apparently DID NOT have the same layer selected (had removed one and renamed it to same name because I like the new results better I think)

My assumption is, when I clicked OK it tried to run the current filter with previous settings, but that should not have been the case as I wasn't using Filters -> Rerun G'MIC, but rather Filters -> Reshow GMIC, so I could add the filter to GMIC's favs.

Also the two - two-line gaps in the report near the top is also present in shell screen, so presumably something caused it to scroll between error attempts. Not sure what though.

I would love to try out the mac version, but I don't think there is a way to do that since I use MacGimp, which has the gmic plugin natively added already.

I downloaded Gmic pre release but when I start gimp Gmic is grayed out. I put the file in plugins. I normally update from the Internet. Is there something else I have to do?

Oops, I made a stupid error. In my haste to test I forgot that Gmic doesn't show until you have a layer.

Ok I have tested all my faves and they all work as expected. I am on Linux Mint 17.3 with Gimp 2.8.16.

It's best to put G'MIC in it's own folder and link that plugin in GIMP's settings. There were so many DLL conflicts over time that this all but became a necessity for the plugin sets that I have, Kimba.

if you have downloaded the pre-release in .exe format, you have simply to RUN IT, not to move; the exec founds automatically wher to place itself (as Lyle said, better to have a subfolder dedicated to G'MIC: "plug-in gmic")

Thanks Lyle and Dinasset. I put Gmic in it's own folder and linked it in Gimp preferences. It's working.

I don't know if Garagecoders Wireframe filter is Gmic dependent but it's suddenly not working. Lyle's Wireframes are working.

tested both on 1.6.9, they work
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