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Metro Link support for Rendition / Nvidia cards
Release 0.3 of a clickable imagemap plug-in for the Gimp
Giram 0.0.6
tgif 4.0.13
Sketch 0.5.3
KuickShow 0.6.3
wmtune for bttv 1.0
FREEdraft 0.3.6
GRASS 5.0 beta
W3C aims to streamline vector graphics
Netscape Flash Plugin 0.4.3
Video Server 0.5.4
Poor Man's Cam 1.1
GILT 0.1.0
Zope 1.10pr1
gView 0.1.0
Disclaimer: Before I get too far into this I should note that any of the news items I post in this section are just that - news. Either I happened to run across them via some mailing list I was on, via some Usenet newsgroup, or via email from someone. I'm not necessarily endorsing these products (some of which may be commercial), I'm just letting you know I'd heard about them in the past month.

Metro Link support for Rendition / Nvidia cards
Colin Scott McDonald

Metro-X for Linux/x86 has been updated to include new support for Nvidia Riva TNT & Riva 128 Chipsets, Rendition V2x00 chipsets, as well as improved support for Permedia 2 based cards and Matrox G100/G200 chipsets. Current owners of Metro-X version 4.3 can download the newest patch for free, new customers can purchase Metro-X for $39.99. 

For more information on Metro-X and our other products for Linux, please visit our website at http://www.metrolink.com



Release 0.3 of the Gimp plug-in for the creation of clickable imagemaps

Available from: http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736
Some highlights from this release:

You can now load a CSIM file that was saved by this plug-in. Files saved by other programs may cause problems. I haven't tested this yet.

The program was tested with GTK 1.0.6 and Gimp 1.0.2.  Compatibility with other versions is unknown.

Maurits Rijk
[email protected]



Giram 0.0.6
David Odin

Giram Is Really A Modeller (or at least will be). It is written in GTK+ v1.1.x (x>=7) and in an early stage of development. So far it can load and save simple Persistance of Vision Scenes and some basic modelling tools are already there. For now you can only use plane, sphere, box and csg objects, with simple enough textures.

Download: ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/giram/



tgif 4.0.13
Bill Cheng

tgif is a vector-based draw tool, with the additional benefit of being sort of a web-browser. That is, you can fetch drawings from a web server with it, and you can make objects in your picture into hotlinks to other parts of the drawing, or to other drawings accessible via http.

Changes: Various bugfixes, better scrolling and zooming, new visible-grid function in slideshow.
http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/



Sketch 0.5.3
Bernhard Herzog

Sketch is a drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator. It is written almost completely in python with some modules written in C, thus combining the flexibility and power of Python with the speed of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip masks, text along a path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and more.

Changes: Rectangles may have rounded corners now, an Illustrator export filter has been added and bezier curves can be used as guides now.
Download: http://www.online.de/home/sketch/download.html
Homepage: http://www.online.de/home/sketch/



KuickShow 0.6.3

KuickShow is a fast, comfortable and easy-to-use imagebrowser /-viewer for KDE. It is based on Imlib and loads many imageformats pretty fast. KuickShow has a nice interface, that allows you to browse large amounts of images in a short time. It can zoom, mirror, rotate images, adjust brightness, contrast and gamma, auto-resize-to-fit and can do a slideshow, of course.

Changes: Bugfixes, KDE 1.1 updates, stability improvements, and a few more filebrowser features.
Download:  http://www.millenniumx.de/packages/kuickshow-0.6.3.tar.gz
Homepage: http://www.millenniumx.de



wmtune for bttv 1.0

wmtune-bttv is a radio tuner window maker applet for all TV/radio cards supported by the Linux bttv kernel driver. It includes presets, a timer for automatic switch on/off and mixer support. Supports wmtune and kradio config files

Changes: This is the initial version.
Download: http://home.pages.de/~fionn/archive/wmtune-1.0_bttv.tar.bz2



FREEdraft 0.3.6

FREEdraft is a 2D mechanical cad project. It is being developed using Linux FREEdraft is likely to work on most any other Unix/X system.

Changes: Updated for compatibility with current library versions, bug fixes, and creeping featureism.
Homepage: http://pw2.netcom.com/~iamcliff/FREEdraft.html



GRASS 5.0 beta

GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a public-domain raster-based GIS, vector GIS, image processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling system.

Changes: GRASS 5.0beta represents the first major change in GRASS functionality in several years, with the most notable change being support for floating point and null values. GRASS also now has a new and much easier to use windows interface based on Tcl/Tk.
Homepage: http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/



W3C aims to streamline vector graphics
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

C|Net report on work being done at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) related to vector graphic format proposals currently under consideration by that group.

http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,32346,00.html



Netscape Flash Plugin 0.4.3
Olivier Debon

The Flash Plugin is a Netscape plugin that allows to view Flash files. Many commercial sites use this format to make their site up. The Flash object also allows to navigate through a site, therefore, without the right plugin it was impossible to go further the "Get Shockwave" logo while running Netscape under Linux.
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/5084/flash.html



Video Server 0.5.4
Andrew Shuvalov

Stony Brook Video Server is the distributed video server application that provides indexing, searching and video streaming in a convenient way to clients over the network. The client may browse the complete list of movies, search closed captions and play selected video from the beginning or from the point matching search query.
Homepage:  http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~andrew/VideoServer/videoserver/index/book1.html



Poor Man's Cam 1.1

PMCam is a program that allows you to set up a webcam on a remote site through FTP and perl. It uses qcam to grab the image, mogrify to do the conversion to JPEG, and Net::FTP in perl to FTP the files to the server. The program's RC file should be configurable, though to allow any camera or converison programs.
Homepage:  http://ic.net/~craig/pmcam/



GILT 0.1.0

GILT is a vector drawing program. It merges GIMP and openGL to be both usable and dependable. It is currently in a pre alpha state, this means we are looking for programmers. Current features multiple views and documents in one session layers and guides-layers script and plugin-mechanisms planned and partially implemented transparent object possible (due to openGL) Planed features loading of postscript object database
Homepage:  http://www.vicksburg.com/~phoenix/main.html



Zope 1.10pr1

Zope is a free, Open Source web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites. It contains a powerful and simple scripting object model and high-performance, integrated object database.
Homepage:  http://www.zope.org



gView 0.1.0
Bruce Smith

gView is a GTK/ImLib image viewer with an interface similar to ACDSee.
Initial release.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facilty/1468/sg/
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