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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "style"

Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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Scribus 1.3.3.12 Update

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The stable branch of Scribus is updated to 1.3.3.12.
This version shipped with:
* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

New Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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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 :smile:
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.

Wine Photoshop page

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Many people ask "What's the smoothest way running Photoshop on Linux? How you get it?" - the answer is easy: Check out the Wine Wiki: Running Adobe Photoshop on Wine :smile:

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

Cheers! Wine 0.9.57

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The Wine development is fast these days, again a new version is available. The good news for design and 3d people are "Support for multiple OpenGL pixel formats" and "Improved support for color profiles".
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

Scribus 1.3.5 sneak preview

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Scribus is a fine open source application for print and dtp. I'm using 1.3.4 often but it has its bug and so i'm waiting for an update. I was a little bit confused about the newer 1.3.3.x releases because 1.3.4 sounds like a successor of 1.3.3. Now i found a little preview of Scribus 1.3.5 which will hopefully hit the streets soon.
If you using Ubuntu, you can get this SVN build easy:
Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running

Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

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Google has hired Codeweavers, which are the leaders of the Wine project and offering commercial services around it. Codeweavers should add better support for Photoshop on Linux. Since Wine 0.9.54 there are much improvements that let running Photoshop CS2 under Wine. This patches has nice side effects, so Flash 8 is working well too.
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

A new bottle of Wine: 0.9.54

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A new version of Wine is released, besides the usual fixes and D3D improvements it shipped with a better support for Photoshop CS2: "...Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it...".
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

Scribus 1.3.3.11

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With some hofixes of the textframe the 1.3.3.11 version of Scribus is released.
Scribus works together with LProf for color prfiling and Fontmatrix for font management.
At the first look the GUI of all looks a little bit ugly because they all are QT-based application. If you like to have a native Ubuntu look of them try out my QT-Ubuntu theme.
Read my earlier post about a unique Ubuntu look with different toolkits.

Scribus 1.3.3.10

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DTP on Linux = Scribus. The 1.3.3.10 version is a maintenance release of the stable brunch:

* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* New Arabic Translation.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
* Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

Scribus works together with LProf for color prfiling and Fontmatrix for font management.
At the first look the GUI of all looks a little bit ugly because they all are QT-based application. If you like to have a native Ubuntu look of them try out my QT-Ubuntu theme.
Read my earlier post about a unique Ubuntu look with different toolkits.

Cheers! Wine 0.9.52

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Jep, they did it again - a new Version of Wine is available. Again with improvements and bugfixes. Besides the added support for the "My Network Places" shell folder there are two things important for artists/ designers using Photoshop on Linux:
* Improved graphics tablet support
* Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues

Better support for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 is aimed by the developers too, read this posts and write your own problems down there:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4001494
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c05a212
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.