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A blog for designer, artists and developers programming websites, painting icons, creating multimedia content, doing dtp or constructing in 3D space using (Ubuntu) Linux.
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At familie redlich :systeme we do not care only about SEO and a perfect Typo3-based website, we care much about the customers needs and business workflow too. So developed an in-house standard that features anything needed for TYPO3 editors. Besides the typical features like versioning, workspaces, groups, workflows and a perfect rich text editor - our websites ships now with a cool, clean, easy to use backend skin: Compared with the admin standard TYPO3 interface this is a big step forward for editors using TYPO3 CMS. These screens illustrates again that TYPO3 can be very user friendly when it is setted up by pros
The Gnome Color Management project has now it's own website. GNOME Color Manager is a session framework for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles. They integrated ArgyllCMS for calibrating devices. A lot of the progress and the details can be found on Richard Hughes blog too.
This year seems to be a year of operating systems. There was Ubuntu Jaunty, Moblin 2, the announcement of Chrome OS, Snow Leopard from Apple, WebOS for the Palm Pre and Windows 7. Besides the release of Jaunty all these releases has no real impact to me but today i switched to Ubuntu Karmic Koala which is another fine Ubuntu release - and that rocks me
Blender 2.5 will render up to two times faster then 2.49. This render optimizations is done by Jaguarandi and his Google summer of code 2009 project. Thanks! Take a look at this video:
The Blender Foundation have received sponsorship and will hire Matt Ebb as a full-time Blender developer for 9 months and may longer to work on Blender 2.5. The sponsor is unknown.
UFRaw is released as version 0.16 as a standalone programm and as a GIMP plugin including more OpenMP (multiprocessor) support, updated translations and mor commandline options.
Bibble 5 Preview 2 Bibble Labs has released a 2nd preview of their upcoming RAW software Bible 5. Bibble is a commercial RAW converter.
I do not know why but offen i read that video editing on Linux is an adventure. From my point of view that is nonsense and here are the proofs why video editing on Linux is easy:
Blender Yes, Blender has a superb video editor that works without 3D rendering
Synfig 0.62, a vector-based 2D animation software package, is released. This version brings new features, improvements and bugfixes: * SVG import module supporting supports SVG 1.0 * Keyframe widget: This allows drag and drop of individual keyframes and altering keyframe length * New toggle buttons in the canvas window * Onion skin past and future are selectable individually up to four in total * New Curve Warp Layer * Updated options for Polygon, Circle and Star Tools * New Value Nodes: Greyed, Power, And, Not, Compare * Reverse manipulation for Scale Value Nodes * Input Device configuration can be saved/loaded now * New icons and updated new translation * lots of bugs fixed Besides that a new website is now online and the code of Synfig is now hosted at Sourceforge.
At the beginning of this year i wrote a post about Moonshiner, a PDF utility for Linux simliar too Adobe Distiller. In May this year the final version was released and now a Deb package for Ubuntu is available at GetDeb.net.
Over GetDeb.net i explored various interesting image utilies (most of them i'd like to see as a GIMP plugin):
Seam Carving GUI ...a utility for content aware image resizing very simliar to the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP (inluded in the package GIMP-plugin-registry). Seam Carving GUI is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Tintii ...is a coloring utility - available for Photoshop too but not for GIMP
Smilla Enlarger ...raster image enlarger that uses smart curves algorithms to avoid pixelization and blurring artifacts. Smilla Enlarger is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Ever dreamed about using Adobe Kuler color palettes with GIMP or use Scribus color palettes in Inkscape? SwatchBooker allows you to view, convert and edit a huge bunch of color palette files formats. SwatchBooker 0.4 is now color managed too. Too bad there is no Debian/ Ubuntu package these days.
The FontForge release schedule is a little bit slower these days - but they still are active. Since the last June release they fixed a lot of bugs and made a lot of smaller improvements (too much to write it down here). Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.
At familie redlich :systeme we do not care only about SEO and a perfect Typo3-based website, we care much about the customers needs and business workflow too. So developed an in-house standard that features anything needed for TYPO3 editors. 
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