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Some insights on Google Summer of Code

Alexandre — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:06:21 GMT

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.

Alexandre 5. Feb, 2012 1 Comment

google, gsoc, gsoc2012

Gphoto updated to support few dozens of new cameras

Alexandre — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:49 GMT

Due to blackout of gphoto.org the new version of gPhoto, a library for downloading pictures from digital cameras, went completely unnoticed. This is the first new version in almost a year, and it comes with support for nearly 30 new devices.

Alexandre 3. Feb, 2012

gphoto, tethering, photography

Support for Corel DRAW files in free software gets another chance

Alexandre — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:57:56 GMT

LibreOffice project started working on a new C++ library to take care of your legacy Corel DRAW files. Calligra Suite team is following closely.

Alexandre 1. Feb, 2012 9 Comments

libreoffice, cdr, re-lab, reverse-engineering

Basic GPU-side rendering and processing in GIMP available

Alexandre — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:47:31 GMT

Back in November we reported that Victor Oliveira got a contract with AMD to implement a basic working GPU-side processing in GIMP based on GEGL. Today Victor has some results to share.

Alexandre 1. Feb, 2012 3 Comments

gegl, gpu, opencl, gimp

SVG Cleaner becomes faster, removes MS Visio elements

Alexandre — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:30:52 GMT

Folks from SVG Cleaner project, announced earlier this month, released an important update that fixes bugs, adds new features and introduces an installer for Windows.

Alexandre 31. Jan, 2012

svg-cleaner, svg

Unstable Scribus gets support for InDesign snippets

Alexandre — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:36:35 GMT

Developers of Scribus, a free desktop publishing application, improved support for IDML file format used by Adobe InDesign and added support for IDMS files.

Alexandre 30. Jan, 2012 3 Comments

scribus, indesign, idml, idms

What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?

Alexandre — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:58:00 GMT

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.

Alexandre 26. Jan, 2012 12 Comments

libredwg, dwg, freecad, librecad, draftsight

GIMP 2.8 gets a new default brush pack

Alexandre — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:29:26 GMT

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

Alexandre 24. Jan, 2012 9 Comments

gimp, brushes

DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support

Alexandre — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:50:28 GMT

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.

Alexandre 24. Jan, 2012

faust, lv2, synths, effects

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

Alexandre — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:08:57 GMT

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.

Alexandre 23. Jan, 2012

sigil, epub, ebook