Linux for Designers

The Dev team released now the 3rd RC of the desktop publishing software Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over the last RC's can be found at the release post. Scribus 1.3.5 requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher and will be the base of the 1.4.x brunch.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the additional sources lists.

After a skiped release in March a new monthly version of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. Besides the typical minor improvements, bugfixes and translation updates this shipped with:
* Support composites (references) in bitmap fonts
* Support for the JSTF table (sfd extension)
* Set of new python functions for manipulating CID keyed fonts
* Add support for reading/writing version 1.8 of Adobe's feature file format

Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

And again a new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. Besides the typical improvements, bugfixes and translation updates , this release ships now with a X resource editor, that allows you to customize the interface (and may getting out of the poor and ugly look).
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. FontForge will now use libpango (drawing opentype, anti-aliased text)/ libcairo(draw anti-aliased lines) if they are present. And again a lot of smaller improvements, bugfixes and translation updates.
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Besides the typical fixes and improvements there are now some improvements for MacOS X.
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

I discovered this funny video on Planet Gnome. If you are a font fanboy this is a "Must have seen" http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766

After i wished a month ago some one would built some newer Scribus 1.3.5 packages, now a month later it comes true :
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running
http://debian.scribus.net/debian/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/

As i can see there are new Scribus SVN builds available from this weekend for Fedora 9. Hopefully someone updates the builds for Debian/ Ubuntu too
Thomas Zastrow wrotes a little preview about what we can expect from Scribus 1.3.5.
My favorite wishes about Scribus 1.3.5 are CMYK-Tiff images with alpha work in PDF documents and the text frames renembers their font properties and display them correct in the property panel.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of bugfixes and smaller improvements . Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port Hopefully this port didn't died.
A Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations. Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port.