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Bluefish

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:41:49 CDT

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots.html

<a href="http://thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/06/develop-websites-with-bluefish.html">Bluefish on Ubuntu</a>

TO Install:
sudo aptitude install bluefish

Bluefish, written by Oliver Sessink, is part of the OpenOffice.org office suite. It is cross platform and open source. It is fast, lightweight, and very stable. It supports projects, and you can work on multiple projects at the same time. It supports remote files via FTP/SFTP, HTTP, and various other ways using gnome-vfs. It supports many languages for syntax highlighting, including:

XML
HTML
XHTML
CSS
PHP
Python
C
Java
Javascript
JSP
SQL
Perl
ColdFusion
Pascal
R
Octave/MATLAB

Metapixel

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:36:10 CST

A Photomosaic Generator.

nova

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:32:17 CDT

There is no abstract available for this page revision.

Audacity

jaymoon85 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:57:33 CDT

Project Homepage: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Open source Audacity is not really a full highly complex multi-track music making machine like Cubase or Cakewalk or SoundForge etc. It is, however, a straightforward, stable, and extremely precise audio waveform editor. Very easy to use yet powerful. It will do multi-track and mixdowns, it's just doesn't have all the sound-mixer-board ins and outs of those complicated packages, which to many people is a blessing. Audacity is a precise audio scalpel, allowing you do exacting bit-level edits and splices, volume envelopes, effects, noise reduction, volume leveling, cut and paste editing, stereo mixes, etc. It will do high resolution recording, limited only by your sound card or other equipment. Great for simpler home recording projects and for the audio tracks of video projects. It's light and a quick download and has version for almost every OS, so give it a try. Highly recommended.

Home

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:13:01 CDT

This page unfortunately has some problems when browsing with Konqueror or Opera.

This will hopefully be fixed by Wetpaint soon.

Welcome to an Introduction to Art Tools for Linux operating systems.

This wiki aims to help artists and designers migrate from Windows and proprietary operating systems and applications to GNU/Linux, specifically Ubuntu

This website and its articles can be edited by anyone, so if you would like to contribute do not hesitate.
A goodwebsite on Open-Source Audio-Visual stuff.

blueMarine

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:03:57 CDT

very slow progress.

dcraw

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:12:13 CDT

Aptana

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:13:42 CDT

http://www.aptana.com
http://www.aptana.com/screenshots

To Install (on Ubuntu):
Instructions 1
Instructions 2 (easier) (recomended)

Aptana is a free, open source, and cross platform web-platform IDE, programmed in Java for the Eclipse IDE, though it is available as a standalone application. It features code assist for Javascript, HTML, and CSS, built in website preview (uses Firefox), project management, FTP/SFTP uploading, error and warning notification, and built in support for many popular Javascript libraries (more can be added).

Other languages, such as PHP, can be used in Aptana although they are not supported fully at the moment. Aptana is still very much in development, the latest build is .2.7.

Quanta Plus

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:50:46 CDT

http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/

http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/screenshots.php

To Install:
sudo aptitude install quanta quanta-dataee

Quanta Plus is a free web development environment built for the KDE desktop environment, though it works in GNOME as well. It features a WYSIWYG mode, built in rendering, and a built in FTP protocol.

Houdini (proprietary)

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:47:00 CST

Houdini is a professional 3D animation, effects and rendering application. While the professional Escape ($1995) and Master ($7995) versions are priced for corporations, the company makes available Apprentice (free) and Apprentice HD ($99) versions for non-commercial, educational use. As of this writing, the latest version of Apprentice available for Ubuntu is compiled for Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10, both in 32 and 64 bit.

MusE

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:38:17 CST

Homepage

sudo aptitude install muse (older version)
funnybunny

OpenLaszlo

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:49:04 CST

http://www.openlaszlo.org/

OpenLaszlo is a free and open-source web development platform for the development of web-based applications with usable interfaces. It uses the LZX programming language and the OpenLaszlo Server, a Java servlet that complies LZX application into binaries for specific runtime environments.

Vector Graphics

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:13:01 CST

Wikipedia says: "the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics. It is used by contrast to the term raster graphics, which is the representation of images as a collection of pixels (dots)."

Windows/OSX Equivalents:
Adobe Illustrator
Macromedia Freehand
Corel Draw
Xara Xtreme
Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor

Links:
Comparison of vector graphics editors

Inkscape and Xara are both very advanced and compare well to their proprietary counterparts. Have a look at both of them.

Synfig

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:56:09 CST

http://www.synfig.com/

AnimeStudio Pro

victor_charlie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:45:24 CST

Proprietary, download 30-day trial version has a $179 cost for the serial number, but it runs in Linux. To run in 64-bit Ubuntu, you need "getlibs" and the installed AnimeStudio. Command-line getlibs /AnimiStudioPro/ASP.donotrunme (pointing getlibs to the binary executable). getlibs will note you need the 32-bit graphics libraries and the ia32. Works very well. Try the trial version. Get it at:

eFrontier Main Page

The most innovative feature is called bones. Add bones to vector or bitmap images and "warp" for a range of animated moves. In the Linux version, the only complete export is .swf -- Flash file format. Otherwise, export image frames into a folder, use Kdenlive to make a film clip.

Vector Animation

victor_charlie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:22:09 CST

FontyPython

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:18:24 CST

If you don't have a lot of fonts, then you can copy and delete your fonts from
/usr/share/fonts/type1
or
/usr/share/fonts/truetype

Within the File System fonts you will find all kinds of fonts. Be careful what you delete though. Other applications may need certain ones of those fonts for the various GUI. Indeed I am in admiration for the font set Ubuntu included with the original CD install. Recently, I opened a Japanese web site and the page displayed correctly because Ubuntu includes the Japanese fonts. Not that I can read Japanese, but it was the first time ever that I could see Japanese.

If you are familiar with Adobe Adobe Type Manager then the functionality of FontyPython should be familiar to you. With Fonty, you create a set -- much like a folder but only visible to within Fonty when it is running. FontyPython calls these sets a "pog". To use Fonty you create a pog, give it name meaningful to you and add fonts. After the pog is created, the fonts within can be turned on as a set making the fonts show up in a font menu. This offers a great advantage. Users of graphical or wordprocessing software with the addition of FontyPython won't have a font menu list that scrolls forever. Instead, the fonts become manageable as needed for all the different projects you work on.

With FontyPython we can store the extra fonts anywhere on the hard drive. In my case, I have a folder called font_morgue and it's located at the user/home level. (I named the folder font_morgue because I come from a newspaper make-ready background. Name your folder anything you like -- font-library or myFonts). Within my font_morgue are all kinds of fonts organized by folders. Some folders by the manufacturer, some by the customer, some by the seasons such as Christmas fonts.

How to get FontyPython

FontyPython is free but it is not in the Ubuntu Synaptic Repositories. You will have to download it from
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython

Read the README included with the download. There is useful information for Ubuntu users and how to go about installation.

The limitation for version 0.2 is Fonty only works with TrueType fonts. (See the article on FontForge to convert fonts to TrueType format).

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Now, as of the Gutsy Gibbon Release of Ubuntu, FontyPython is in the Synaptic Repositories.

Running FontyPython

FontyPython runs from a Terminal. To run you type ~$ fp

Fonty now runs in the GUI mode as the default. For other options you would type in the terminal fp --help to get a list of options and other running modes.

In the screenshot showing fonty I have created a "pog" named ASchweitzer_set, then I navigated to my font_morgue folder and with the pog selected I could add fonts to the pog. Default is the newly edited pog is NOT turned on. Notice in the screenshot above the button next to the pog for ASchweitzer_set is set black. To activate, I will click on that little square button and then the larger, rectangular button beneath that pog I click it to make the pog "alive", which turns the pog button red. The fonts are now available for font menus across my system. I can close FontyPython.

Let's say I'm using XaraLX, a vector graphics program, because I have the pog activated, the two fonts are included in the font menu. If I wish to add more fonts to my work in progress, I have to quit XaraLX, fire up fontyPython, add the needed fonts to my pog (or create a new pog), make sure the pog is active and then resume my project.

Gogh

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:45:08 CDT

http://www.goghproject.com/

F-Spot

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:43:19 CDT

A photo browser similar to picassa et al.
Allows you to browse photos by date or by assigned "tags". F-spot recognizes RAW files from a number of manufacturers including Nikon, Canon, and Fuji.

Wings 3D

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:47:04 CDT

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0. There is no support in Wings for doing animations.

Wings3d website