Design Suite

Fedora Design Suite

Summary

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

Previous Releases

• 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

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 3.10 desktop spin.
• Removal of Cinepaint due to failure of build rhbz#992058
• Additional fonts: Campivisivi-Tittilium

Default packages

Here is the list of selected packages for the suite. Note that is still possible to install the variant through Software manager.

Graphic group

Packages	Website	Summary
blender	http://www.blender.org	3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
cmyktool	http://www.blackfiveimaging.co.uk/index.php?article=02Software%2F05CMYKTool	Utility to manage color profiles and convert from RGB to CMYK
colord-extra-profiles	http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/	More color profiles for color management that are less commonly used
darktable	http://www.darktable.org	Utility to organize and develop raw images
dia	http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/	Diagram drawing program
entangle	http://entangle-photo.org	Tethered shooting & control of digital cameras
fontforge	http://fontforge.org/	*the* editor for font files
font-manager	http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/	Font management application
gimp	http://www.gimp.org	Image manipulation program
gimp-dds-plugin	http://people.via.ecp.fr/~remi/soft/gimp/gimp_plugin_en.php3	A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
gimp-fourier-plugin	http://people.via.ecp.fr/~remi/soft/gimp/gimp_plugin_en.php3	A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
gimp-high-pass-filter	http://ffaat.pointclark.net/blog/archives/152-High-Pass-Filter-Plugin.html
gimp-lqr-plugin	http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/	Content-aware resizing plug-in for the GIMP
gimp-normalmap	http://people.via.ecp.fr/~remi/soft/gimp/gimp_plugin_en.php3	A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
gimp-resynthesizer	http://logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer	Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis
gpick	http://code.google.com/p/gpick/	Advanced Color Picker
GREYCstoration-gimp	http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/index.html	GREYCstoration image denoising and interpolation plugin for gimp
Hugin	http://hugin.sourceforge.net/	Panorama photo stitcher
ImageMagick	http://www.imagemagick.org/	*the* tool for batch-processing images
inkscape	http://www.inkscape.org	Vector-based drawing program using SVG
mypaint	http://mypaint.intilinux.com/	Fast and easy graphic application for digital painters
nautilus-image-converter	http://www.bitron.ch/software/nautilus-image-converter.php	Nautilus extension for image conversion
optipng	http://optipng.sourceforge.net/	PNG optimizer and converter
pdfshuffler	http://http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/	initial selection
scribus	http://scribus.net	Desktop publishing application
shotwell	http://yorba.org/shotwell/	Photo organizer
synfigstudio	http://www.synfig.org	Vector-based 2D animation studio
xournal	http://xournal.sourceforge.net	Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journal

Office group

Packages	Website	Summary
bijben	https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Bijiben	Note-taking application (replaces Gnotes)

Internet group

Packages	Website	Summary
filezilla	http://filezilla-project.org/	FTP, FTPS and SFTP client

Audio and Video group

Packages	Website	Summary
audacity	http://audacity.sourceforge.net/	Multitrack audio editor
pitivi	http://www.pitivi.org	Non-linear video editor

Typeface (aka fonts) group

Packages	Website	Summary
aajohan-comfortaa-fonts	http://aajohan.deviantart.com/art/Comfortaa-font-105395949	Modern style true type
adobe-source-sans-pro	http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/	A set of OpenType fonts designed for user interfaces
campivisivi	http://www.campivisivi.net/titillium/	Sans-serif typeface family
lato-fonts	http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato	Sans-serif typeface family
openpass-fonts	https://fedorahosted.org/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-19-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

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Design_Suite

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