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Help Tupi Animation Editor Support Graphic Tablets

Help Tupi Animation Editor Support Graphic Tablets

At the risk of being renamed to Kickstarter Graphics World we'd like to draw your attention to a fundraiser for Tupi, a free 2D animation software for Linux.

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MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins

MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins

GIMP and MyPaint projects have a closer relationship than one might assume. And there’s a chance they could get to the next stage.

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GIMP 2.8 released, next version to get high bit depth precision

GIMP 2.8 released, next version to get high bit depth precision

After 3.5 years of blood, sweat and tears the GIMP team announced the release of GIMP 2.8. But good things come in pairs.

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LightWorks for Linux: how long will it take?

LightWorks for Linux: how long will it take?

Last week EditShare terminated rumours about LightWorks version for Linux being vaporware and published a screencast.

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Blender 2.63 gets BMesh, 2.64 to get new compositor

Blender 2.63 gets BMesh, 2.64 to get new compositor

The news travel far and wide: Blender finally got BMesh last week after 5 years of development.

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Exiv2 starts writing metadata to Canon RAW CR2 files

Exiv2 starts writing metadata to Canon RAW CR2 files

Andreas Huggel released a major update to Exiv2, a free library and an application for reading and writing Exif and XMP image metadata.

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Libcdr resurrects Waldo, gets basic spot colors support

Libcdr resurrects Waldo, gets basic spot colors support

The Corel DRAW files reverse-engineering story gets “curiouser and curiouser”. The libcdr project managed to do something even Corel was not capable of.

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Synfig Studio 0.63.05 released with recursive outline grow

Synfig Studio 0.63.05 released with recursive outline grow

Synfig Team released a new revision of Synfig Studio, the 2D vector open source animation application for Linux, Mac and Windows. 

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ArgyllCMS 1.4.0 released with iterative improvements

ArgyllCMS 1.4.0 released with iterative improvements

Graeme Gill released an update of ArgyllCMS, a free color management system for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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LibreDWG controversy: 2 months later

LibreDWG controversy: 2 months later

In late January we posted an in-depth story that explained the lack of support for DWG files in free/open source CAD software. Now it's time for an update.

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