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Linux Artist - Linux Art and Design Resources

2D Art Tools and Utilities - Pixel and Vector Based

 image editing & manipulation

 vector programs

  • SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics.
  • VML - Vector Markup Language.
  • xml2swf a converter from xml to Flash file format.
  • the open swf format
  • openswf.org
  • pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats.
  • MetaPost is a powerful graphics language based on Knuth's METAFONT, but with PostScript output and facilities for including typeset text.
  • Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif.
  • mvComicsMaker (mvCM) is free graphics editor for creating bitmap and vector animations.
  • GLE (interactive Graphics Language Editor) is a high-quality graphics package for scientists, combining a user-friendly interface with a full range of facilities for producing publication-quality graphs, diagrams, posters and slides.
  • Freedraft - a project to create a simple 2D mechanical cad system.
  • Mediascape is releasing Artstream 2.0 on Linux. Artstream is a vector paint and page layout application which runs on IRIX. Here is a press release.
  • AutoTrace - An image to vector graphic converter.
  • Killustrator
  • GYVE - GNU Yellow Vector Editor
  • GILL - the Gnome Illustration app. Gill will eventually support all of SVG
  • xfig - an interactive drawing tool which runs under X.
  • sodipodi - a small vector based drawing program. It loads and saves subset of SVG
  • gtkfig - a figure drawing tool. It can be used to draw flow-charts, data structure diagrams etc.
  • Tgif - Xlib based interactive 2-D drawing tool under X11
  • idraw part of ivtools
  • texpict is a program to create easy drawings to include in latex documents in both Unix and MS Windows. It is possible also to save them as postscript.
  • gnuplot is a plotting package which can output in Fig and other formats.
  • Sketch-0.6.3 - is a vector drawing program for Unix. (development version 0.7.4)
  • Sketch gallery.
  • IPAD - interactive GUI vector and limited bitmap drawing package
  • GILT - was a text oriented picture editor
  • Swift Tools (Generator & Inspector) - Open Flash Generator and viewer!
  • Linux Flash Plug-in - for Netscape browser
  • KVEC is a shareware vectorizing utility
  • vec2web is a small tool to convert vector drawings (currently DXF) to graphics which can be used on the web (currently PNG). However, vec2web can also convert DXF drawings to postscript and WBMP or display them in an X11 window.

 page layout

 image viewers

  • DFBSee is an image viewer and video player for DirectFB.
  • Electric Eyes - Image viewer
  • EvilEye is an image browser based on Imlib2,Evas,Ebits,Edb and Efsd libraries.
  • Gnome Photo Collector is a tool used to classify and visualize images.
  • GLiv is an image viewer that uses Imlib2 to laod images, and OpenGL to render them.[fm]
  • gthumb is an image viewer for the Gnome environment..
  • QtVu - an Image viewer for X windows
 graphics libraries

  • paintlib2.30a - is a portable graphics c++ library for image manipulation.
  • zodius is a fast vector graphics library build from ground up. It tries to implement Flash and SVG type drawing of paths offering maximum quality together with state of the art speed.
  • dxflib is an open-source C++ library for reading and writing (planned) AutoCAD (R) DXF files. It's at the moment very simple but already provides the functionality to read the basic entities of a DXF file.
  • libswf is a library for generating Macromedia Flash .swf files from scratch. It aims to be a framework to program CGIs to create really dynamic flash pages.
  • Ming is a c library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies, plus a set of wrappers for using the library from c++ and popular scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Ruby.
  • DirectFB DirectFB is a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device.
  • OpenGUI is a high-Level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 asm graphics kernel.
  • gd - An ANSI C library for the dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats. GD does not create GIF images.
  • Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library for fast access to graphics framebutter and audio device.
  • SkyVIDEO it is a video oriented portable library.
  • PNG - Portable Network Graphics and libpng
  • DjVu - AT&T's Scanned Document compression
  • GLTT - a library that allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGL application. It supports bitmapped and anti-aliased font drawing as well as vectorized and polygonized drawing.
  • GDChart - an easy to use C API, high performance library for creating charts and graphs in GIF format
  • perl module and python module for GDChart.
  • General Graphics Interface - graphics library
  • Nurbs++ This C++ library hides the basic mathematics of NURBS. This allows the user to focus on the more challenging parts of their projects.
  • g2 - an easy to use, portable and powerful 2D graphics library
  • hermes -is a graphics library designed to do a very limited number of things and do them very well.
  • IVTools - a layered collection of free C++ frameworks for developing interactive structured graphic ("MacDraw"-like) and structured document ("TeX"-like) applications for Unix and X Windows.
  • GLE Tubing and Extrusion Library is a graphics application programming interface (API). The library consists of a number of "C" language subroutines for drawing tubing and extrusions.
  • ClanLib is a multi-platform game development library.
  • TDGraphics allows programmers to write computer games which transparently run on Unix (X, DGA, GGI) or Windows (DirectX).

 graphic utilities

  • metapixel is an interesting program for creating photomosaics.
  • Caldera make software packages for Image acquisition, processing, retouching, composing, Ripping, layout and output.
  • Creativelinux has an interview/profile with Dr. Michael J. Gourlay the creator of Xmorph.
  • photoseek is a Web-based image cataloging management system with some great features/benefits.It uses PHP+MySQL.
  • Acrobat Reader for Linux.
  • gif2png is a command line converter. It also comes with a utility called web2png which fixes your img src tags. very cool.
  • xpdf 0.90 - is a PDF viewer.
  • Gifsicle-1.40 - is a UNIX command-line tool for creating GIF images and animations.
  • gPhoto (GNU Photo) - Digital Camera Utility
  • FLTK - The Fast Light Toolkit-A C++ GUI toolkit
  • Mars - Modelling Animation and Rendering System
  • CompuPic - A Digital Content Manager
  • egon animator - an X-based animation development tool for Unix
  • imc, the Image Compiler - the program formerly known as gifc.
  • PhotoCD browser

 fun stuff

  • Duh DRAW - ANSI graphics
  • xtacy - graphics hack for x11
  • Zut - A graphical back-end (very cool!)
  • CMatrix - not an app but fun none the less.