Techwriter’s den

For some reason I missed The Big Return of Jörg Anders. If you missed that story, here is a quick reference.

In late 90s Dr. Jörg Anders created a free/libre musical score editor called NoteEdit. For some reason it didn’t get much acknowledgement which (but not only this reason) subsequently led to departure of Mr. Anders from the project which actually left the project headless for several months. Then it was picked by several guys who maintained it until ca. 2006 when they started a new project called Canorus.

Now Jörg Anders is back with a GTK+/Cairo application called NtEd which has two most anticipated features implemented: brackets and page layout. Here is an obligatory screenshot

It’s last day here in Wroclaw at LGM. We slowly are wrapping up, and Andy works as a walking shameless plug for eeePC

This conference is unbelievably fun and useful. Can you imagine Dave Coffin, Udi Fuchs, 3×Anders of Rawstudio and Gilles Caulier in just one room? Easily! You just should have been at Libre Graphics Meeting 2008

More details to follow.

By the way, we now have a dedicated Flickr group.

What is it? Cooking classes?

Nooo! This is actually a Print Party by Open Source Publishing that is ongoing right now in a Wroclaw pub, just two days before Libre Graphics Meeting 2008. If you are around, don’t miss out tomorrow’s type design workshop.

As you may already know, deadline for Google Summer of Code applications submission was extended today till April, 7.

Though this year I’m primary admin for hugin/panotools, I’m neglecting my organization for a second and asking to pay more attention to OpenIcc and GNOME, in particular to project ideas bringing color management to a desktop level.

Currently we have most of the bricks in place to build upon: xicc, oyranos, LittleCMS… We just need people who are passionate enough to make both desktop an easy to use platform for photographers, designers and prepress people.

This year we are having four days of total madness called Libre Graphics Meeting. If you care you have a look at the schedule, you’ll see that every single talk is very much worth being in Wrocław, Poland, from 8th to 11th, May.

There are some nice outcomes of last year’s LGM like Lensfun project and this year’s conference isn’t going to be an exception.

This is also a great chance for Google Summer of Code 2008 students to meet their mentors, in case they go for projects like Cairo, Inkscape, Scribus, GIMP, Krita, hugin/panotools or OpenICC.

So make sure you have tickets and a hotel room reserved for that time

The magical Enfuse has been gaining momentum for a while, and a couple of GUIs are available already. I wonder if guys at Novell hack week could take a shot at porting EnfuseGUI from .NET to Mono (and maybe even make it an F-Spot add-in?)
By the way, hugin/panotools are requesting a Google Sumer of Code project and a number of slots (if we are chosen) this year again. If you are student who is willing to contribute, don’t hesitate to tell us Use the mailing list.

Update. I stand corrected (thanks, Yuv): source code is not available. So… Anyone keen to create one from scratch?
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UniConvertor 1.1.1 is out with just one feature added: Corel DRAW X4 files support.

They did it one week after release of X4 only because they missed the release announcement

Since guys at dot.kde.org are procrastinating with publishing submissions again (sorry for nitpicking :)), here goes the interview I did with Hal Engel in December (Russian version is available for two weeks already). Hal is lead developer of LProf — the only open source ICC profiler with QUI (Qt based).

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It never stops amazing me how many little interesting projects are out there to play with and have fun.

One of them is Structure Synth — a tool that allows creating interesting 3D structured objects from a set of rules. Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen, its developer, says it is an attempt to create a 3D version of Context Free.

The picture above is taken from a dedicated Flickr group

P.S. And Merry Christmas, everyone

First stable version of UniConvertor is out. You can grab both source code and binary builds (go to http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/tigro/ for Fedora 7/8 packages).

UniConvertor (UC) is based on code from sK1 which is a fork of Sketch/Skencil. Backport of changes from sK1 to Skencil was at one time considered by Skencil’s developers, but that hasn’t really happened (at least yet).

UC can be used in other applications. For instance, SVN version of Inkscape can open CDR files (curves, flat fill’n’stroke, no text yet) using UC.

Next versions of UC will feature EMF import (the code already exists and works), probably VSD import (check vsdviewer) and, maybe, Freehand import (code to load raster previews already exists too). You can actually hire the team to create an importer for you, especially if you deal with some exotic file format