Design Suite

Fedora Design Suite

Summary

The Design Suite is a Spin targeted towards professional designers, specifically the Fedora Design Team.

Previous Releases

• Fedora 20
• Fedora 19
• Fedora 18
• Fedora 17
• Fedora 16
• Fedora 15
• Fedora 14
• Fedora 13

Owner(s), Maintainer(s) and Co-Maintainer(s)

• Name: Luya Tshimbalanga (Owner)
• E-mail: luya at fedoraproject dot org

• Design Software: design-sw at lists.fedoraproject.org

Previous maintainers

• Name: Sebastian Dziallas
• Name: Pierros Papadeas

Detailed Description

Have you ever wanted to use the tools the Fedora Design Team is using? Or are you probably even looking forward to getting involved in Fedora as a designer? This is your chance.

The Fedora Design Suite is a tool that includes well-selected applications fitting a variety of use cases whether you decide to work on publishing documents, creating images, pictures, website, basic animation or even 3D content.

What's new?

• Based on Gnome 3.14 desktop spin.(?)
• New link for the list of tutorials related to design

Bundled Packages

A set of packages ranged from graphics to typefaces included in the Design Suite.

Graphic group

• blender - 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
  • blender-luxcorerender - Blender export plugin to LuxCore Render
  • YafaRay-blender - A free open-source raytracing render engine plugin for Blender
• colord-extra-profiles - More color profiles for color management that are less commonly used
• darktable - Utility to organize and develop raw images
• dia- Diagram drawing program
• entangle - Tethered shooting & control of digital cameras
• fontforge - *the* editor for font files
• gcolor3 - Advanced Color Picker
• gimp - Image manipulation program
  • gimp-dds-plugin - A plugin for GIMP that provides support for the DDS image format
  • gimp-fourier-plugin - A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
  • gimp-gap - The GIMP Animation Package
  • gimp-high-pass-filter - High pass filter for GIMP
  • gimp-layer-via-copy-cut - Layer via copy/cut plug-in for GIMP
  • gimp-lensfun- Gimp plugin to correct lens distortion
  • gimp-lqr-plugin- Content-aware resizing plug-in for the GIMP
  • gimp-normalmap - A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
  • gimp-paint-studio - collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets
  • gimp-resynthesizer - Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis
  • gimp-save-for-web - Save for web plug-in for GIMP
  • gimp-separate+ - Rudimentary CMYK support for The GIMP
  • gimp-wavelet-decompose - Decomposing image plug-in for Gimp
  • gimpfx-foundry - Additional GIMP plugins
  • gmic-gimp - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing plugin for gimp
• GraphicsMagick - An ImageMagick fork, offering faster image generation and better quality
• Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
• ImageMagick - *the* tool for batch-processing images
• inkscape - Vector-based drawing program using SVG
  • inkscape-psd - Inkscape PSD Importer
  • inkscape-sozi - Inkscape extension for creating animated presentations
  • inkscape-table - Table support for inkscape
• krita - Digital Painting, Creative Freedom
• mypaint - Fast and easy graphic application for digital painters
• nautilus-image-converter - Nautilus extension for image conversion
• optipng- PNG optimizer and converter
• pdfarranger - PDF file merging, rearranging, and splitting
• pitivi - Non-linear video editor
• scribus - Desktop publishing application
• shotwell - Photo organizer
• synfigstudio - Vector-based 2D animation studio
• xournalpp - Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journal

Audio and Video group

• audacity - Multitrack audio editor
• pitivi -Non-linear video editor

Typeface group

• aajohan-comfortaa-fonts Modern style true type
• adobe-source-sans-pro - A set of OpenType fonts designed for user interfaces
• campivisivi-titillium - Sans-serif typeface family
• julietaula-montserrat-fonts - Sans-serif typeface designed by Julieta Ulanovsky
• lato-fonts - Sans-serif typeface family
• open-sans-fonts - A humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson
• overpass-fonts - Typeface based on the U.S. interstate highway road signal type system

Benefit to Fedora

This spin is insofar beneficial for Fedora itself, as it helps the Design Team by fitting its needs through selecting often used applications and including them on one spin. Additionally, it helps new users interested in design matters to join Fedora, since they'll be able to download the spin and start directly using the applications - without being required to look into the load of available packages. In a way, it fosters the design community inside Fedora.

Kickstart File

Latest ks file inside git repository

Nightly Builds

Nightly builds of the latest .ks file can be found at nightly compose website in either 32-bits (known as i686 architecture) or 64-bits (as x86_64).

Sometimes nightly builds fail due internal change. We are working on them! :)

ISO Name / FS Label

• fedora-21-Live-design-suite

Spins Page

Design Suite website is located at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/design/

Screenshot

• Will be done later in the release cycle

Download tab

• For current downloads, see here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/design/#downloads

Support tab

• IRC channel: #fedora-design on Freenode
• mailing list: design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org, design-sw@lists.fedoraproject.org

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Design_Suite

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