What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?

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What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?

Alexandre 26. Jan, 2012 8 Comments

Having been asked recently about reasons for lack of DWG support in free software, we started digging and very nearly fell into a pitch black abyss.

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libredwg, dwg, freecad, librecad, draftsight
GIMP 2.8 gets a new default brush pack

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GIMP 2.8 gets a new default brush pack

Alexandre 24. Jan, 2012 9 Comments

The upcoming new version of GIMP is going to feature a much improved default set of brushes thanks to Ramon Miranda and Guillermo Espertino.

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gimp, brushes
DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support

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DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support

Alexandre 24. Jan, 2012 No Comments

Albert Gräf released first public version of faust-lv2 — an attempt to mate Faust, a DSP programming language, with LV2, an API for effects and virtual instruments.

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faust, lv2, synths, effects
Sigil, a free EPUB editor, gets spellchecking and localized interface

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Sigil, a free EPUB editor, gets spellchecking and localized interface

Alexandre 23. Jan, 2012 No Comments

John Schember released a new version of Sigil, a free EPUB books editor. The glorious v0.5.0 has several major improvements you will certainly put to a great use.

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sigil, epub, ebook
Colord 0.1.16 further improves color management workflows

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Colord 0.1.16 further improves color management workflows

Alexandre 17. Jan, 2012 5 Comments

Colord, the new color management framework for Linux, is more about evolution lately. However some of the changes have a deep impact on the whole infrastructure. Which is yet again proven by an update released earlier today.

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colord, color-management, gnome
All of Wacom support infrastructure for Linux gets an update

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All of Wacom support infrastructure for Linux gets an update

Alexandre 17. Jan, 2012 3 Comments

Developers of Wacom drivers for Linux are really back to releasing new stable versions at an enviable pace. They have just released updates to drivers for Linux kernel and X, as well as a new version of libwacom.

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wacom, linux, cintiq
What’s coming at FOSDEM 2012

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What’s coming at FOSDEM 2012

Alexandre 16. Jan, 2012 3 Comments

In less than three weeks Brussels gets its annual peak concentration of geeks. On February 4-5 the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is bringing together developers and users of free software.

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fosdem, conference
ColorHug is shipping

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ColorHug is shipping

Alexandre 11. Jan, 2012 3 Comments

After two months in development the first batch of ColorHugs, open colorimeters by Richard Hughes, are arriving to the first 50 customers.

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colorhug, colorimeters
Introducing SVG Cleaner

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Introducing SVG Cleaner

Alexandre 7. Jan, 2012 No Comments

If you do a lot of drawing in Inkscape, you know that unused elements tend to accumulate and blow up size of SVG documents. This is where recently released SVG Cleaner 0.2 comes to rescue.

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svg, scour, inkscape
Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell

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Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell

Alexandre 4. Jan, 2012 10 Comments

The somewhat belated release of Scribus 1.4.0 is finally done. That's over 4 years of work, hundreds of bugfixes and quite a lot of anticipation compressed in a download that surprisingly small for a desktop publishing application.

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scribus, desktop-publishing
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