Design Suite

Fedora Design Suite

Summary

The Fedora Design Suite is a set of tools including well-selected applications from Design Team fitting a variety of use cases whether deciding to work on publishing documents, creating images, pictures, websites, basic animation and video editing or even 3D contents.

Previous Releases

• Fedora 34
• Fedora 33
• Fedora 32
• Fedora 31
• Fedora 29 & Fedora 30
• Fedora 28
• Fedora 27
• Fedora 26
• Fedora 25
• Fedora 24
• Fedora 23
• Fedora 22
• Fedora 21
• Fedora 20
• Fedora 19
• Fedora 16
• Fedora 13

Maintainer

• Name: Luya Tshimbalanga
• E-mail: luya at fedoraproject dot org
• Design Software: design-sw at lists.fedoraproject.org
• Website: https://labs.fedoraproject.org/design-suite

What's new?

• Fedora Design Suite is promoted as own release as seen on Settings -> About.
• Update to Gnome 3.40 featuring revamping layout with dash located at the bottom, improved gestures command with touchpad and horizontal swapping of dynamic workspaces.
• Blender 2.92
• Gimp 2.10.24
• 3.4.1
• Inkscape 1.0.2
• Krita 4.4.3 beta 1
• Hugin 2020.0.0 with better support for HiDPI screen
• Color Picker, known as gcolor3, replaces gpick as a default color picker application for better seamless integration with the desktop.
• Scribus 1.5.6.1 featuring export to PDF 1.6 and several improvments
• Pitivi 2021.01, release switched by year.month and several bugfixes

Known issues

• Sparkleshare is removed from the bundled due to failure of built

Download tab

• For current downloads, see https://labs.fedoraproject.org/design-suite/download/index.html

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-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
  • 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
• rsms-inter-fonts - Typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screens

Screenshots

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  GIMP Image editor

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  Inkscape illustration editor

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  Scribus Desktop Publisher

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  Blender 3D modeling

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  Darktable RAW Processor

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  Entangle Tethered Camera Control and Capture

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  Hugin Panoramic stitching images compositor

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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