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Publish your artwork to deviantArt with GIMP and Inkscape

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Martin Owens created an interesting plugin that allows you to publish your artwork directly to deviantArt within GIMP or Inksape. A PPA for Ubuntu Lucid and above is available too.

Interesting gedit stuff for web development

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Webupd8 has an interesting article about collaborative work with gedit. At the article comments I found a link about extend these features using the Telepathy framework - really amazing for team work.
About collaboration: If you looking for a great CVS client that supports SVN and GIT, then try RabbitVCS. It ships with a gedit plugin too.
Another great addon is "Client side" for optimize/ restructure CSS and JavaScript files. This addon works great, a PPA for NodeJS can be found here.

Gimp plugin Seperate+ 0.5.5

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Seperate+ for Gimp, a plugin that sepeartes color channels to layers and allows you to attach color profiles, is now available as version 0.5.5. This release adds again interesting color features:

* separate
  - Change Embedded profile priority configuration in Separate and Proof functions to the default
  - Support file export of JPEG and Photoshop PSD formats
  - Allow to specify whether the file is compressed or not when the file is exported
  - Allow to designate a profile of the destination color space as null
    when a devicelink profile is used in Separate dialog
  - Fix a rendering bug when color separation under the condition that Preserve pure black
    is enabled for layers containing alpha channel
  - Fix crash when an image whose height is less than 64 pixels is exported in TIFF format
* IccButton
  - Change priorities of locations from which profiles are searched (Windows, Mac OS X)
  - Enable to acquire the path of the system profile folder using API of ICM (Windows)
  - Fix a bug which characters contained a path of a selected profile make a record of
    history occasionally unsuccessful
* Update message catalogs in Japanese and Russian

To complete my workflow using Seperate+ that generates CMYK Tiff images inside of Gimp i wrote a small Python plugin for Gimp that allows you to convert the saved CMYK Tiff image into a PDF for prepress.

Getting famous with GIMP smile

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[/IMGRIGHT]Ok, i'm getting not really famous but as i read my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp script is now in Debian SID and Ubuntu Karmic. That means many, many, many people can enjoy my work smile
BTW : You can enjoy that and a lot of other stuff now too, just download the liblqr-1-0_0.4.1-1_i386.deb and the gimp-plugin-registry_2.1-1_i386.deb package and install them. This will update the packages of Jaunty.

gEdit Template Plugin Update

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I wrote an update of my "New from Template" plugin for gEdit. It should now working with Gnome 2.26 and Ubuntu 9.04.
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Blender News

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At the last days a lot of interesting news about Blender poped up:
* First: There will be soon a version 2.49 including improvements and new features: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=152631

* Second: The documentation of the new particle system has been completely updated:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Physics/Particles

* Third: The Blender Foundation released some guidlines about the logo and name usage:
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/logo/

gEdit improved Search Plugins

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I improved the "Find in Files" and "Find in open Documents" plugins for gEdit written by Mike Doty.

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Flash SWF Export for GIMP with Animation Support

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP again. This time i added animation support. Any layer of an GIMP image will be exported as a frame of an Flash SWF animation (not a Flash Video FLV).
Later i will add support for Windows too.

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Gimp Flash SWF Exporter Update

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP. Now it can generate the XHTML page where the exported flash is embeded.

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Flash SWF Export for GIMP

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For image conversion and an easy way keeping the content of our lastest Flash project up to date i wrote today an Flash SWF Export Script for Gimp.

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CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp update

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After using my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp in real life by creating the prepress PDF of the german Ubuntu flyer and the chance to get it bundled in the Debian package "gimp-plugin-registry" i updated it again and fixed some bugs:
* added license information about GPLV2
* now compression modi "Zip" and "JPEG 95%" are working
* a creator sign "GIMP CMYK Tiff 2 PDF" in the meta informations of the PDF document will be added

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Liquid Rescale 0.6.0/ Liquid Rescale Library 0.3.0

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The Liquid Rescale plugin for Gimp is updated to version 0.6 and its backend the Liquid Rescale Library is available as version 0.3.0. Liquid Rescale is a implementation of Seam Carving for Gimp.
Watch this video about Seam Carving:

Innerworld 0.0.6

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I'm a little bit late with it: InnerWorld, a landscape generator running inside the 3d suite Blender and uses internal noise functions and external height fields, is now available as alpha 0.0.6:
* Procedural object placement.
* User defined objects can be duplicated to populate the generated mesh.
* For calculating locations different strategies can be selected. Supported are grids, Poisson disk sampling and spirals.
* Random generators can add variations in size, locations and rotation of duplicated objects.

A tutorial about procedural object placement is available too.

64bit Flash Player for Linux

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One of most feature requests of Linux users about Flash was a 64bit Flash Player, Adobe make it now happend. This is the first 64bit Flash Player at all, a version for Mac OS X and Windows will follow later. But it isn't final yet, some functionality is still missing: camera, microphone, fullscreen via OpenGL.
The 64bit Flash Player isn't faster then the 32bit. For more performance Tinic Uro, a Adobe Flash developer, recommended to disable the nspluginwrapper. Bugs of the 64bit Flash Player can be reported at Adobe Bugs.

CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp final

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I updated my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp plugin besides minor fixes i added new features like:
* Exporting two images as on PDF
* Start Acrobat or Evince after export
* Delete CMYK TIff images after PDF creation

For myself it sounds like feature complete but i'm interested in your feedback too.

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innerworld 0.0.4

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InnerWorld, a landscape generator running inside the 3d suite Blender and uses internal noise functions and external height fields, is now available as alpha 0.0.4. New are:
* Multiple meshes can be handled in one scene
* The material of a mesh is preserved during recalculation of the meshes geometry...
* You can add a simple coloring schema to generated meshes...

Gimp News

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Gimp 2.6.2 is out now and includes several bugfixes. You can grab a Deb package at Getdeb.net.
The Liquid Rescale plugin for Gimp is available as version 0.5.1 and the Liquid Rescale Library is availbale as version 0.2.1, both versions are bugfix releases.
Eric Lamarque has created a Photoshop Pattern Loader for Gimp but still no Ubuntu package available sad
The X11 Mouse Cursor plug-in reaches version 1.1.3, a Deb package for Ubuntu is available too.

CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp

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To complete my workflow using Seperate+ that generates CMYK Tiff images inside of Gimp i wrote a small Python plugin for Gimp that allows you to convert the saved CMYK Tiff image into a PDF for prepress.

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Gimp Plugins updates

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The most important RAW image importer for Gimp Ufraw is available as version 0.14. Besides minor enhancements, updated translations and support for Lensfun 0.23 it based now on DCRAW 8.88. You can grab a Deb package for Ubuntu at getdeb.net.
The Liquid Rescale plugin 0.5 and the Liquid Rescale Library version 0.2.0, both together deliver content-aware resizing for the GIMP, are now available for download.

UPDATE:
With 2 hotfixes now UFRaw 0.14.1 is available, you can get DEB archives at GetDeb.net too.

Flash Player 10 final

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Adobe published now the final Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform. Now the Linux Flash Player has the same features as on any other platform. For more details check out the feature page.
Best of all Adobe provides now a Deb archive for Ubuntu 8.04 but they use their own file structure and it seems there is no 64bit build again sad

To enjoy Flash Player 10 without smashing your Ubuntu:
- extract the Deb archive (do not install it)
- extract the data.tar.gz
- copy as root the file "install_flash_player_10_linux/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so" to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree"