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Comix - User firendly Comic book & general image viewer in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 28th October 2008

Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
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Flimp - Graphical frontend for Command Line Image Manipulation tools

Posted by admin on 13th October 2008

flimp is a generic graphical frontend to the many excellent command line image manipulation tools available. It allows you to create pipelines of commands that read from standard input and write to standard output. One can view and compare the result of each stage of the pipeline. flimp leaves the input image file untouched; the pipeline is saved in a text file.
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QShaderEdit - Multiplatform Shader Editor in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 13th October 2008

QShaderEdit is a simple multiplatform shader editor inspired by Apple’s OpenGL Shader Builder. QShaderEdit allows you to edit shaders and tweak shader parameters while previewing the results in real-time.

Currently it supports the following shading languages:

ARB programs
GLSL shaders
CgFX effects
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Inkscape - free opensource Vector Graphics Editor in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 16th September 2008

InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

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pngcrush - Optmize & Compress PNG images (batch compression supported)

Posted by admin on 26th August 2008


Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text comments) to be inserted or deleted, and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0 as well as the erroneous iCCP chunk written by Photoshop 5.5. Its main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream by trying various compression levels an PNG filter methods. It also can be used to remove unwanted ancillary chunks, or to add certain chunks including gAMA, tRNS, iCCP, and textual chunks.

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