I have applied this patch partially. The changes to Michael Sweet plug-ins weren't made, but I have informed him about this diff and I hope he'll answer soon Ok, here comes his answer: The patch to print.c is unncessary; in some situations you may get a warning that those variables are unused, but I'd rather not have a bunch of local, local, etc. variables lying around to have to fight with. The patch to sgi.c is a long-standing bug in the GIMP code; the plugin clearly specifies that it only saves RGB(A) and GRAY(A) images, but GIMP still passes the file to the plug-in for saving. GIMP needs the patch, not the SGI plug-in... Salut, Sven P.S: did i ever mention that i hate vi? .