Questions tagged [linux]
Linux is a family of free and Open Source operation systems.
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SVG animate accordion two letter word into longer word?
Using a plain-text editor, preferably, or Inkscape, are there any good tutorials on taking two letters and inserting more letters between them, and animating it so that the two letters expand outward ...
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How can I author or create Lottie animations on Linux?
I use a Linux machine as my daily driver for web development, and I would like to create Lottie animations.
I need to draw my shapes and use timeline / keyframing / tween tools. It can be using a full-...
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Can you connect a risograph to a pc running linux?
We're trying to connect a Riso MZ7U to a computer running Ubuntu.
The link to download official drivers from Riso is https://www.riso.com/download/
They only have drivers available for Windows and Mac....
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How to find the widths of letterforms of a font of given style and size?
I'm stymied trying to hand letter the text in a one off sign for my yard:
NO LIFE
MATTERS
WHERE
BLACK LIVES
DON'T
Using Libre Office Draw I centered the text (Liberation Sans, 72pt) in a window ...
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Reduce image palette to the actual colors
I made this image:
And now I need to save it to Gif, but no matter what I try I end up with an image containing only two colors.
How can I properly reduce the palette of my image to the actual number ...
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What's the best free tool to convert PNG to SVG?
I've made 144 different PNG images. Now I want to convert (trace) them to SVG. What's the best free tool to make this?
IMPORTANT: The images consist of only black and transparent parts. Their sizes ...
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Gimp fuzzy selector selection not being removed on delete
I've done this precise thing before, but for some reason after selecting with the fuzzy selector the portion of the image I want to remove and hitting the delete key, it's not being removed.. Am I in ...
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Is There A Way To Open SVG from web URL in Inkscape?
I'm running Inkscape on Linux and usually end up saving SVG's from the web using wget in the terminal.
It would be much easier if I could import/open the SVG directly via URL in Inkscape, but I don't ...
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Bulk croping same portion from multiple file [duplicate]
I want to crop same portion, say rectangular areas from multiple image files which are located at same place in all files. Is there anyway to do it in GIMP? and I also have to do it regularly. Can I ...
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Display/preview lowercase as small capitals in Inkscape?
I want to type text in Inkscape, and see lowercase letters displayed instantly as small capitals on the canvas. Preferably using the font's own small capitals, if available.
Is this possible in ...
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Ways to remove/select scanning artifacts from document [duplicate]
I often receive scanned documents that has dots and grains in them. I often use the paintbrush in gimp to manually remove them, but it occurs to me that all the dots share so many similarities that a ...
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When I try to "copy" an object in Inkscape I get an error about UniConvertor
I'm running Inkscape 0.92 on Debian GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch).
When I try to "copy" an object in Inkscape I get an error about UniConvertor not beeing installed.
You need to install the UniConvertor ...
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FontForge: Change the aspect ratio of an existing font
I have found a font I really like to program with, but it is too tall.
I would like to scale the height of the font to 80% (or alternatively scale the width of the font to 125% if that might work ...
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How to add drop shadow to a picture via CLI?
I have a bunch of pictures (mostly screenshots, but it doesn't matter) to which I'd like to add a drop shadow. (Reason for it is to add a nice border, as they have white background and I use them on a ...
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How to simulate weather conditions over a group of images
I'm working on a machine vision project and work with a sequence of recorded stock images to test my algorithms with. They are city images that were recorded in relatively good weather conditions. Now ...
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Heal edges between shapes
Using GIMP, I used the fuzzy selection tool to fill in colors. Now between shapes there are some white pixels, see the pixels between the hexagon and the exterior black color:
Using GIMP, or another ...
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Any command line tool to convert "black-and-white" images to "bit mapped"("two-tone") images
On Windows, IrfanView can create a bi-level version of Gray Level Images conveniently.
Is there any command line tool available on Linux?
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How to edit a pdf and preserve hyperlinks
I was wondering if it is possible to edit (in my case I want to remove some text) a pdf page, while maintaining the hyperlinks on the page.
I have tried using Inkscape, GIMP and LibreOffice (on ...
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Emoji support for chrome on linux [closed]
I am on a CentOS 7 machine, I want to take a PDF export of my website that has emojis in it using puppeteer (that internally used Chromium). But natively, very few emojis are supported on linux, and ...
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What's the best way to create and manage palettes on Linux?
I'd like to find a solution to create and manage (edit, save, export) palettes on a Linux laptop.
Ideally I'd like to have functionalities similar to webapps like Coolors, Colormind, Paletton, or to ...
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How to achieve 'Orange and Teal' look in GIMP
I would like to give the 'Orange & Teal' look to some pictures using only GIMP. I must remark, the question is specifically restricted to GIMP.
My question is simple but here is some background. '...
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Windows (or Linux) program for light and value
Is there a program for Windows (or Linux if all else fails) for studying light and value? For example, I would like to study geometric solids being exposed to different types of light from different ...
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Testing font file for errors in Linux [closed]
I've produced this font and for some strange reason the kerning table only works partially on one of my Linux boxes. It works on 2 other Linux boxes for some reason. I'm wondering if there is a way to ...
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Icons in two columns in Inkscape toolbars, is it possible? [closed]
I'm using Inkscape on a laptop that has a vertical resolution of 800px.
The main toolbar, the one that by default is docked on the left part of the screen, has more icons than could be fitted on the ...
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Import image sequence in Pencil2D
I'm using Pencil2D animation software (Pencil2D Git nightly build on Arch Linux). I'm trying to import an image sequence in my timeline, but I always get one blank frame in between 2 images (i.e., if ...
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Tahoma Font and Linux
I designed my app's look with Tahoma before realizing it was not available on Linux.
If I want to maintain the same look on Linux, what should I do?
I found the actual Tahoma ttf on several sites, ...
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How to resize all .svg images within a folder at once in Linux?
I have some images that I made in inkscape with .svg extension. These images are various size (256*265, 512*512, etc) in pixels.
How can I change the size of all these images at once in Linux?
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How to start with graphic design [duplicate]
I am new to this forum. I want to get started with graphic design. I have a linux OS , what software and books do i require to get started? Also i would like to start with pixel art . Hope you can ...
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Animate images in correct order using ImageMagick [closed]
I'm using ImageMagick on Ubuntu Linux and I'm attempting to convert sequentially named files into a gif animation. Usually this is an easy operation and only requires that I run something like convert ...
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Is there a tool in linux/gimp to dynamically layout a grid of images for scrapbook cutouts?
I'm looking for a tool that will layout images into grids dynamically without altering their proportions. The purpose would be to make cutting image printouts much faster for moodboards/scrapbooking. ...
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Inkscape SVG → print-ready EPS/PDF workflow
I realize similar questions have been asked here and there, but I'm still a bit confused.
So, the task is basically to make a print-ready EPS/PDF for some vector art prepared in Inkscape [on a Unix-...
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From Inkscape in Linux to Windows, changing bitmap resolution
I was creating a splashpage for an app I'm working on at work, using my personal laptop with Ubuntu (14.04) and Inkscape. We use a framework at work that requires precise dimensions, but I could not ...
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How to get MS Office fonts?
There are a couple of documents I need to edit (making small changes) from time to time, and I only have them in PDF format. That would not necessarily be a big problem, except they use some fonts I ...
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How to list the fonts used in an adobe illustrator (AI) file, on linux?
I would like to list font names used inside an Adobe Illustrator (CS4 or CS5 I don't remember) file, on my Fedora linux desktop.
Is it possible ? I tried to open it with Inkscape but I fail to see ...
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Creating a curved image/photo wall/montage using the Linux commandline
This question is a crosspost from Stack Overflow because of its predominantly graphical nature and the fact that I think that a primarily graphically oriented community may [be able to] provide advice ...
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Is there a program that draws vectors the way Flash does?
I usually draw (or vectorize) using flash. I like how I can draw a line then bend that line. i.e. not using the pen. I find this easier since I can always go back and modify something easily.
Do you ...
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