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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "graphics"

SVG Open 2009

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The website of the SVG Open 2009 is online now. This year the SVG Open take place from 2nd.-4th. October in Mountain View (USA). They started a call for participation too.

LGM 2009 - Support it!

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You love professional open source graphics software? Then support the Libr Graphics Meeting 2009.
At this event developers and users can get together to share ideas and visions. This time it took place from 6-9 May in Montreal (Canada). Your donation is needed to make it possible developers of important projects can be there.

» Donate now!
Click here to lend your support to: Support the Libre Graphics Meeting and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

LGM 2009 location

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The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) May 2009 is set to happen in Montréal, Québec, Canada (like the 2007 meeting, it will take place at L'École Polytechnique). Dam this is far away. This year i planed to travel to LGM 2008 in Warsaw (Poland) but i missed it :frown:

Krita 2 and Karbon 2 beta

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After many alpha versions the kOffice 2 reaches now the beta state. That includes the first beta versions of the image editor Krita and the vector drawing application Karbon too.
All details about the beta state of kOffice 2 and its application can be found in the changelog.

Krita 2 and Karbon14 2 alpha 10

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A week ago the KOffice project released the 10th alpha of KOffice 2 including the image editor Krita 2 and the vector drawing app Karbon14 2.
Besides a lot of fixes Krita 2 brings now the Sumi-e paintop, which is a very configurable bristle-simulating brush engine (screeny). Karbon 2 brings back the page layout editing (screeny) and new filters.

Watch - Learn - Do: Inkscape

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If the Inkscape tutorials are too much to read for you than just watch and listen to the Inkscape screencasts :D

UniConvertor 1.1.3

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UniConvertor 1.1.3, a universal vector graphics translator for various formats, is published by the SK1 project:
* Added PDF exporter
* Added PostScript exporter
* Fixes for sk1 import/exort filters
* Fixes in model layers representation
UniConvertor could be used with Inkscape 0.46 for importing CorelDraw files *.cdr (and may in future in Scribus too). At the moment just the sources and an RPM package is available.

Painting icons with Inkscape

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At the Inkscape Tutorial Blog i found this nice tutorial of Martin Sourada, member of the Fedora Art Team, about painting icons with Inkscape. If this is not enough check out this too. Here and here is another icon tutorial too.
Inkscape is my favorite for icon design too.


UPDATE: Another goody is here.

LGM 2008 video streams

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Last week the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 took place in Wroclaw (Poland). Now video streams of the LGM conference, presentations and workshops are available online.

UPDATE:And a lot of pics of the at Flickr :smile:

Krita 2 and Karbon14 2 alpha

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Today the KOffice project released the 7th alpha of KOffice 2 including the image editor Krita 2 and the vector drawing app Karbon14 2. In this alpha Krita brings a new plugin architecture. Of course the alpha 7 includes a lot of bugfixes too.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.2

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Qtpfsgui, a graphical user interface that enables users to work with HDR images, is updated to version 1.9.2. This Version tries to fix several filename encoding bugs.

UniConvertor 1.1.2

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UniConvertor a universal vector graphics translator based on the sK1 engine gets updated to 1.1.2. It will used by the upcoming Inkscape 0.46 for importing CorelDraw files (*.cdr) too.
The UniConvertor supports a wide range of vector file formats like: CDR, CMX, AI, PS, EPS, SVG, WMF, CGM, AFF. Binary packages for various systems following soon.

Inkscape 0.46 is final

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Inkscape 0.46 reaches the final state and is now available for download.

If you using Ubuntu Linux you can use these reposotories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main

Read my older posts about the new features and the release notes of Inkscape 0.46. A bunch of screenhsots is available too.

Inkscape 0.46 preview release 3

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The 3rd preview release of the upcoming Inkscape 0.46 release is now available for download. Download it, try it and report bugs!

If you using Ubuntu Linux you can use these reposotories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main

Read my older posts about the new features and the release notes of Inkscape 0.46.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.1

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Qtpfsgui, a graphical user interface that enables users to work with HDR images, is updated to version 1.9.1:
* Interactive anti ghosting.
* increased usability HDR creation
* Added manual anti-ghosting feature
* Removed integrated dcraw implementation
* Added commandline interface
* bugfixes

Inkscape 0.46 preview release 2

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The 2nd prerelease of the upcoming Inkscape 0.46 release is now available for download. Download it, try it and report bugs!

If you using Ubuntu Linux you can use these reposotories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main

Read my older posts about the new features and the release notes of Inkscape 0.46.

Inkscape Tutorial Blog

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If you try to learn Inkscape you should check out the Inkscape Tutorial Blog, which features a wide range of the possibilities using Inkscape.

Next Inkscape 0.46 Prerelease

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The next prerelease of the upcoming Inkscape 0.46 release is now available for download. Download it, try it and report bugs!

If you using Ubuntu Linux you can use these reposotories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main

Read my older posts about the new features and the release notes of Inkscape 0.46.

SVG Open 2008

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The website and blog of the SVG Open 2008 opened up. This year the SVG Open take place in Nuremberg/ Germany.

UniConvertor 1.1.1

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UniConvertor a universal vector graphics translator based on the sK1 engine gets updated to 1.1.1. It will used by the upcoming Inkscape 0.46 for importing CorelDraw files (*.cdr) too.
The UniConvertor supports a wide range of vector file formats like: CDR, CMX, AI, PS, EPS, SVG, WMF, CGM, AFF. Binary packages for various systems following soon.