Monday, 4. August 2008, 11:05:48
hkf, colour palettes, inkscape, GIMP
...
Reading through
Planet Gnome i stumbled over a post of
Andreas Nilsson (Random Pixels) who pointed to an interesting entry of the
Scribus Wiki about using Spot Colour palettes (like HKS or Pantone). Of course this works with Gimp and Inskape too.
If you are looking for a conversion table about HKS, CMYK and RAL spot colors
check out this PDF document and this
webpage (HKS N,K,E,Z) or
this (HKS/CMYK/ RGB) or
this (Pantone/CMYK/RGB) too.
Thursday, 29. May 2008, 09:14:55
nvidia, gnome, monitor, color
...
Last year i wrote a post about
Monitor color calibration on Linux. Now i recognized on my Dell Vostro 1700 system that the display is to lighten and that red is missing a bit.
At
GetDeb i found GAMMApage which works great but didn't solve my problems in detail.
I found a good solution in installing the package "nvidia-settings" and configuring my display via "System > System settings > Nvidia X Server Settings > X Server Display Configuration > X Server Color Correction" in front of a brilliant and colorfull monitor. To get the color correction at system start i added at "System > Preferences > Sessions" the entry:
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -l
Wednesday, 30. May 2007, 21:36:06
icon, dtp, tango, color
...
The next
big release of the open source dtp software Scribus arrived:
- a rewritten preview mode
- major additions to TIFF/PSD support
- new styles and text capabilities
- new text layout engine
- new pre-press capabilities
- color management enhancements
- a ewritten and more capable Scrapbook
- new transparency features
...and it gets tangofied now
Saturday, 12. May 2007, 14:47:17
dtp, tango, scribus, theme
...
DTP on Linux = Scribus. The 1.3.3.9 version of it is
released . Mainly just bugfixes. The next real nice steps coming with the following 1.3.4.
I checked out the
previous version which worked nice. But at the first look the GUI looks a little bit ugly (Scribus is based on QT) and so i created a Ubuntu color theme for it. To use it, copy it as root to "/etc/qt3/" or as normal user to "~/.qt3/". There is a "
qt3-qtconfig" config tool too.
Thursday, 1. March 2007, 21:42:58
theme, qt, color, tango
...
DTP on Linux means Scribus. A 1.3.3.8 version of it is
released . Mainly bugfixes. The
1.3.3.9 version is on the run.
I talked to the developers about the
tangofied version and they told me all that including real new stuff will come along with th 1.4 brunch so stay tuned
Wednesday, 10. January 2007, 12:04:41
color, tango, dtp, icon
...
DTP on Linux means Scribus. A new version of it is
released today. Mainly bugfixes, svg improvements and GUI stuff.
I checked out the
previous version which worked nice. But at the first look the GUI looks a little bit ugly (Scribus is based on QT) and so i created a Ubuntu color theme for it. To use it, copy it as root to "/etc/qt3/" or as normal user to "~/.qt3/". There is a "
qt3-qtconfig" config tool too.
I hope with the new submitted artwork in 1.3.3.7 the icons will look better then now. There where lovely shots of a
tangofied version
Tuesday, 9. January 2007, 12:15:38
KDE, gnome, monitor, calibration
...
I found this nice article aboout possibilities for color calibration of monitors at Linux.com:
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/07/2244242A lot of calibration chart can be found at
Normen Koren's siteI'm a little bit disappointed that such a tool like
KGamma for the Gnome desktop is missing.
Wednesday, 27. December 2006, 10:08:03
color, wine, registry, theme
...
I spend some time too tweak
Wine a little bit more for a better look of Windows apps on my Ubuntu Linux. I created a color theme and a
registry file for import (wine regedit ubuntu_colors.reg) into the wine registry editor.
I know Wine can load Windows styles and there are nice ones like
Clearlooks and
Human, but my experiences are that these themes let Wine runing slow.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="239 235 230"
"ActiveTitle"="200 130 60"
"AppWorkSpace"="102 51 51"
"Background"="0 128 128"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="180 180 180"
"ButtonDkShadow"="115 106 96"
"ButtonFace"="239 235 230"
"ButtonHilight"="239 235 230"
"ButtonLight"="248 246 244"
"ButtonShadow"="203 193 183"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="16 132 208"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="181 181 181"
"GrayText"="203 193 183"
"Hilight"="248 198 119"
"HilightText"="0 0 0"
"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 255"
"InactiveBorder"="239 235 230"
"InactiveTitle"="239 235 230"
"InactiveTitleText"="60 60 60"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"
"Menu"="239 235 230"
"MenuBar"="239 235 230"
"MenuHilight"="0 0 0"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="239 235 230"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"
(50%)
