Linux for Designers

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.

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.

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

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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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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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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.

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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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
The X11 Mouse Cursor plug-in reaches version 1.1.3, a Deb package for Ubuntu is available too.

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.