ACE Versions and Ports

General

This page gives information, which I will try to keep current, on which ports are available. It serves as a FAQ. Please email me if something needs to be updated. If you compile for a new platform, I can link to your page or put the software here.

Versions

The ACE package currently has three versions:

A plugin for the GIMP program. The `official' location of this is Kevin Turner's pages. A little development work is still required here, but the plugin is quite useable.
A full-featured program with a graphical user interface. This uses the Tcl/Tk system, which is easily installed on Windoze, Mac and Unix/Linux systems. See here and here.
A command-line program which is based on the PBMPLUS (libgr on linux) system.

For software available from this site see this download directory.

Platforms

I rely on others to provide compiled versions for anything other than Linux. The only impossible combination is GIMP on a Mac, unless GIMP has now been ported there.

Linux:

See the above links for up-to-date versions.

Other Unix:

It should be easy to compile for other Unix systems.

Windoze:

There is a windoze plugin for GIMP for windoze. The distribution includes a version of non-GIMP ACE for Windoze.

Mac:

It would be quite straightforward to compile for the Mac, and may not need a commercial compiler. We will have to wait for a Mac version of GIMP to have that working, of course.