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a bit of a WARNING
this thread is from 2007
it is 8 years out of date

the rusty paper guide for gimp is for a 8 year old version of gimp that you will not be able to install on Windows 8.1
post #7

and the link to the pdf in post 16 is Also for Gimp 2.2
gimp 2.8 is current and almost ALL!!! of the 2.2 guides will not work
the program has CHANGED A LOT IN EIGHT YEARS

mainly "script-foo" is deprecated