Libre Graphics World

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2012 program that will run for the 8th time and attract hundreds of students from around the world to improve free and open source software. We've collected some insights for you.

I've been meaning to talk to Eric Prevost aka Kaeltyk for a while, because I had been following (and admiring) his work even before he discovered Mandelbulber, a free 3D fractals explorer by Krzysztof Marczak.

We haven't covered G'MIC in a while mainly because there were too many releases, and it was difficult to pick one to summarize changes. It's time to talk about G'MIC again.

Few days ago developers of OpenOctaveMidi, a new/old digital audio workstation for Linux, presented the brand new v2011, the culmination of several years of work.

With better color management support and a new Wacom configuration applet the newly released GNOME 3.2 looks like a solid improvement for us creative folks.

The question of getting CMYK PDF output from Inkscape is a very often asked one. Let's talk about getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus.

An interview with Richard Hughes, principal developer of GNOME Color Manager and colord. Highlights: what's new with the project, changes in the Linux printing system, future plans.

One of the reasons we like open movies is because they are real world tests for free software. Blender Institute's movies push Blender up the production curve, so does Morevna project re Synfig Studio. And just like big studios develop in-house solutions for their big animation projects, open movies lead to interesting developments as well. This time it's about MyPaint which is getting a traditional animation tool.

Today LGW's guests are Eilidh McAdam and Fridrich Strba who implemented support for VSD documents (Microsoft Visio) in LibreOffice within GSoC2011.

Today we are talking to Thomas Krijnen, architect and programmer from the Netherlands, who works on IfcOpenShell project to assist opens source acceptance in BIM.