Gimp Essential Reference

I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a physical manual to wrap my mits around when looking for an answer. This is that book for the GIMP. It's all in here, and then some. Not *all* the features work, but the new release will be out soon, I hope, and then it'll be *erally* worth having. In the mean time, I have most of the answers I need in this volume.

1.1.16 is the version that will become 1.2 when it is considered stable.Just download and compile...

This is not a review of the book "GIMP Essential Reference" as much as a comment. When you look closely at the cover of the book, you notice that it is for GIMP v1.2. I don't know about you, but the version that comes with RH 6.1 is v1.0.4. The current development version is v1.1.16. Where is version 1.2?There seem to be numerous new features that are described which you cannot test out on the version of GIMP that you'll probably be using. Many of the features are desirable (e.g. the 4 color selection models).