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April from a month long trek through New Zealand, I found myself with a
slew of work to catch up on. Aside from the mountain of email, I
had three articles and some cover art for the Linux Journal, a new issue
of TheGimp.com, and some things I've been sworn to secrecy on. I
also bought a new camera, so I could stop rumaging around for affordable
stock photography and just go take the pictures myself. I find photography
as much an artistic outlet as my Gimp galleries, and plan to merge the
two immediately. Just as soon as I finish the classes that explain
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Of course, I also had lots
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Muse column.*</font></font>
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on the Web once I got back. There is a new Web site for artists interested
in Linux, <a href="http://www.linuxartist.org">linuxartist.org</a>.
After taking a look over there and seeing the list of vector graphics tools,
I found my topic for this months Musings and Web Wonderings. So,
in this months column you'll find:</font></font>
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<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The Macromedia Flash Plug-in
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web site, <a href="http://www.thegimp.com">TheGimp.com</a>, sponsored by
SSC, Inc. and edited by The Graphics Muse - <b><font color="#993300">Michael
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Most announcements courtesy
of <a href="http://freshmeat.net">freshmeat</a>.</font></font></center>
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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.</font></font></td>
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<a NAME="aKtion! 0.3.4"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>aKtion!
0.3.5</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Frederic L.W.Meunier (fredlwm)
- April 08th 1999, 22:40 EST </font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>aKtion! is a video player
based on xanim. It (xanim) supports many different file formats like FLI
animations, FLC animations, IFF animations, GIF87a and GIF89a files, GIF89a
animation extensions, DL animations, Amiga MovieSetter animations, Utah
Raster Toolkit RLE images and animations, AVI animations, Quicktime Animations
and SGI Movie Format files. </font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/aktion.html">http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/3864/aktion.html</a></font></font>
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<br><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Photo Mosaic plug-in
for the Gimp</font></font></b>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://registry.gimp.org">http://registry.gimp.org</a>
or <a href="http://www.kirchgessner.net">http://www.kirchgessner.net</a></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Changes:</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Works with Gimp V1.04</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Enhanced scale algorithms</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Quality=100 saves PPM-files
instead of JPEG-files (no loss in quality)</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Random select of sequence
for tile replacement</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Peter Kirchgessner</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="mailto:peter@kirchgessner.net">peter@kirchgessner.net</a></font></font></td>
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<br><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>SideEffects to port Houdini®
3D animation software to Linux</font></font></b>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>From the press release:</font></font>
<blockquote><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Side Effects Software
announced its plans to port its Houdini® 3D animation software to the
Linux operating system. Side Effects Software is the first high-end 3D
animation company to announce plans to adopt the Linux platform. While
many hardware vendors support the popular operating system, there ar presently
few graphics software packages available for it. It is expecte that a Linux
version of Houdini will be beta tested with Houdini 4.0 beginning in May.</font></font></blockquote>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Full press Release: <a href="http://www.sidefx.com/news_events/press_linux.html">http://www.sidefx.com/news_events/press_linux.html</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>SideEffects Software: <a href="http://www.sidefx.com/">http://www.sidefx.com/</a></font></font>
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<br><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Gimp @ SIGGRAPH 99</font></font></b>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>This years <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/s99">SIGGRAPH</a>
in Los Angeles runs from August 8-13. The exhibit days are Tuesday throughThursday.
August 10-12. Calvin Williamson is organizing a Gimp SIG for the
conference. Here is his announcment:</font></font>
<blockquote><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>I've made some enquiries
and we can have a Gimp SIG (special interest group) meeting without paying
any money. (The conference costs though). I have a form we have to submit
to reserve a spot.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>It would be nice if we made
this for any and all gimp users/developers and would basically be a reserved
room that we can meet in for a couple of hours. If we get our form
in soon, it will probably be listed in various programs/schedules.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Anyway we're free to organize
our SIG anyway we want. I'm sure we can do that fine. But what
I wanted to find out was a guess at how many people we might get, and what
times would be best. I need this for the forms to send in to set this up.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Heres some considerations:</font></font>
<blockquote>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The exhibits/papers/courses
usually run to about 5 or 6 each day.</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The Exhibit is Tuesday -Thursday.
Papers are Wednesday - Friday. Courses are Sunday -Tuesday.</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>In my humble opinion, a good
time might be something like 5:30-7:30 PM on Tuesday or Wednesday, which
reduces the chance that it will actually overlap with anything else you
might want to do.</font></font></li>
</blockquote>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>As for number, Yosh "guessed"
that we wouldnt get more than 40 people. If all this sounds good,
I'll fill out the forms accordingly and send them in a week or so.
If not let me know what you think.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Yosh has set up an account
(gimpsiggraph@gimp.org) we can use for logistics /suggestions/comments
about the upcoming meeting. If you have an organizational issue or have
a request of some sort, please email that account. It will help us keep
things under control as time nears.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>In case your interested in
conference costs: <a href="http://www.siggraph.org/s99/registration/catNfees.html">http://www.siggraph.org/s99/registration/catNfees.html. </a>
($25 for exhibit only, but other stuff is pretty expensive.) Last
year the Linux3D group had a good meeting I think. (I missed it cause I
didnt know about it though...)</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Calvin</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Calvin Williamson <<a href="mailto:calvin@rhythm.com">calvin@rhythm.com</a>></font></font></blockquote>
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<br><a NAME="MathMap 0.8"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>MathMap
0.8</font></font></b>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>MathMap is a GIMP plug-in
which allows distortion of images specified by mathematical formulae. For
each pixel in the generated image, an expression is evaluated which should
return a pixel value. The expression can either refer to a pixel in the
source image or can generate pixels completely independent of the source.
MathMap not only allows the generation of still images but also of animations.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The MathMap homepage can
be found at</font></font>
<blockquote><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/mathmap/">http://www.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/mathmap/</a></font></font></blockquote>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>It includes a user's manual
as well as screenshots and examples.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Changes since 0.7:</font></font>
<ul>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Now runs under both GIMP 1.0
and GIMP 1.1.</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Features a transparent MathMap->C
compiler under GIMP 1.1 boosting performance by a factor 2 to 8.</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Simple vector and matrix algebra.</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Pixels outside the image can
now be either wrapped or given any color (including transparency).</font></font></li>
</ul>
<p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Mark Probst</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Student, Programmer</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/">http://www.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/</a></font></font>
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<br><a NAME="GIMP 1.1.4 and 1.0.4"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>GIMP
1.1.4 and 1.0.4 now available:</font></font></b>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Version 1.1.4 (developers
release):</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Download: <a href="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/unstable/v1.1.4/">ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/unstable/v1.1.4/</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>It <i>requires</i> GTK+
1.2: <a href="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/">ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/</a></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Stuff that's new:</font></font>
<ul>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>gradient brushes</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>started using pdbgen</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>spiffy new prefs dialog</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Gimp::Perl updates</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>unit system updates</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>added GAP</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Paths PDB functions</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>other stuff in the ChangeLog..</font></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Version 1.0.4 (stable release):</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Download: <a href="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.0/v1.0.4/">ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.0/v1.0.4/</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>It <i>requires</i> GTK+
1.2: f<a href="ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/">tp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>This release fixes the broken
menu items and 8-bit display issues in 1.0.3.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>-Yosh (current GIMP source
maintainer)</font></font>
<br>
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<br><a NAME="GATOS 0.0.1-isg2oaa1bc1"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>GATOS
0.0.1-isg2oaa1bc1</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Insomnia (Stea Greene) -
April 07th 1999, 23:32 EST</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The GATOS (General ATI TV
and Overlay Software) Project is an effort to create standard drivers for
all currently unsupported features of ATI video cards, specifically TV
features.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Changes: First release and
it's still very buggy. Please read the "Original GATOS announcement" on
the hompage and submit a report as specified there.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/">http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/</a></font></font>
<br>
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<br><a NAME="libgeom 0.0.6"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>libgeom
0.0.6</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Whitestar47 - April 07th
1999, 23:31 EST</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>libgeom has many data types
to handle common geometrical sub-primitives, such as point, line, line
segment, vector, plane, arc, circle, and many functions to manipulate,
convert and make new information. All functions are reasonably computation
efficient. It is all coded in C and works well with gcc and egcs.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.calvin.edu/~jdemaa17/programs/programs.html">http://www.calvin.edu/~jdemaa17/programs/programs.html</a></font></font>
<br>
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Geo 0.7.5</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Hilaire Fernandes - April
07th 1999, 23:29 EST</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Dr Geo stands for 'Dr Geo
Refer to Geometry Exploration Observatory'. It is an interactive geometry
software and allows the construction of dynamic figure. It's possible to
draw basic geometric object as point, line, segment, locus, intersection
beetween object but also to use geometric transformation as rotation, translation,
etc. The usal geometric tools as parallel line are also available.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.drgeo.seul.org/">http://www.drgeo.seul.org/</a></font></font>
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<br><a NAME="Meteor 1.5.4"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Meteor
1.5.4</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1> Mark Sutton
- April 07th 1999, 22:51 EST</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Meteor is a device driver
and set of usefull applications for the Matrox Meteor frame grabber.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Changes: Enhancements to
this version over the previous version include several minor bug fixes
and the ability to auto-configure itself for kernel version. It correctly
configures itself for 2.0.* and 2.2.* kernels. It should also work correctly
on most 2.1.* kernels if anyone is actually using them anymore.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.gnofn.org/~marksu/meteorman.html">http://www.gnofn.org/~marksu/meteorman.html</a></font></font>
<br>
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<br><a NAME="Terraform 0.2.10"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Terraform
0.2.10</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1> RNG - April
07th 1999, 13:29 EST</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Terraform allows you to create
fractal terrain (also called a height field) and transform it using a number
of algorithms. It is meant to be a tool for those who want to generate
digital terrain models for use in raytracing or other simulations.
Terraform features different views and colormaps and has a preview mode
which features interactive real-time rotation of the terrain object. Terraform
is written using Gtk-- (the C++ wrapper for Gtk+).</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.peoplesoft.com/peoplepages/g/robert_gasch/terraform/">http://www.peoplesoft.com/peoplepages/g/robert_gasch/terraform/</a></font></font>
<br>
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<br><a NAME="mpg_applet 0.1"></a><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>mpg_applet
0.1</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1> laertes - April
07th 1999, 13:24 EST</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>mpg_applet is an mpg123 frontend.
It supports playlists and uses almost no screen real estate. It uses mpg123
version 0.59q and GNOME version 1.0.4.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Changes: This is the first
public release.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~hebl9901/mpg_applet/">http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~hebl9901/mpg_applet/</a></font></font>
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-- Did You Know Section
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<h2>
Did You Know?</h2>
<blockquote><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>...<a href="http://www.dv.com">Digital
Video</a> magazine's March 1999 print issue has a terrific article on color
spaces, written by Ben Waggoner. If you've ever wondered about what
the different color spaces are and why you might use them (and which programs
and industries use which color spaces), check out this article. A
PDF version of this article is available online at <a href="http://www.dv.com/magazine/1999/0399/">http://www.dv.com/magazine/1999/0399/</a>.
PS: no, I don't get anything from DV for promoting them, its just
a really good article!</font></font></blockquote>
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<h2>
Q and A</h2>
<i><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Q: Perhaps there's
a question you can answer. I scanned most of my pictures at 75dpi
using a Windows program. But I did a few at 150dpi. For some
reason, when I retouched the latter, they looked fine in the GIMP, but
when I later used display or another viewer, they were twice as big (both
directions) as I expected, and they took up much more disk space than they
should. It's like the GIMP had somehow gotten into a mode where it
was showing me things at half the real size they were, without telling
me.</font></font></i>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>A: Gimp will rescale
the visual display of the image to fit your screen but the actual image
size remains the same. A 150DPI scanned image would look twice as
large on a computer as the 75dpi image. Each "d" is a pixel, essentially.
Gimp scaled it down so you could work on it. But the other programs
don't know about "inches" (the "i" in DPI), just about total number of
pixels in the image. So those other programs displayed all the pixels
it read, one image pixel per one screen pixel.</font></font>
<br>
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<h2>
Reader Mail</h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>No really interesting reader
mail this month. I had lots when I got back from New Zealand, but
most of it was covered over in the <a href="http://www.thegimp.com">TheGimp.com</a>.</font></font>
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<br><a NAME="webwonderings"></a><img SRC="images/webwonderings.jpg" height=57 width=246>
<h2>
The Macromedia Flash Plugins for Linux</h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Animations on the Web, for me
at least, have been limited to what you can squeeze out of a really good
multi-image GIF file. For the most part, those haven't been very
exciting or creative, and they really were limited to small spots within
the browser window. I haven't seen too many MPEG movies online
but even those would be a little limited in a browser. As for audio,
well, I mostly just listen to the various tech news sites. and those only
a couple times a day at most.</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>So I was rather interested
to see two versions of a Macromedia Flash plugin for Netscape recently
announced. One comes directly from Macromedia in binary format only,
the other is an Open Source version which includes source code. Since
I'd never seen a Flash site in action (I run Linux - and only Linux - at
home and work normally revolves around the various commercial Unix systems),
I decided I'd grab these and take a look at what I'd been missing.</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Wow. I'm stunned.
Apparently there was a whole other world out there. Sites with full-window
animation accompanied by driving electronica-style soundtracks. My
Graphics Muse site seems rather dull all of a sudden (maybe it already
did to some of you, but I don't get out much). Maybe the "Wow factor" (as
one site put it) will wear off eventually, but I'm rather excited about
this format. Although I can't author the Flash files on Linux yet
(you still need the Macromedia Flash 3 authoring software, which only runs
on non-Linux systems), at least now I can visit Flash sites and not stare
at those blank boxes with notes about where to download a player for Windows.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The two plugins I looked
at are:</font></font>
<ol>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4">Macromedia
Flash plugin</a>, available from <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/">Macromedia's</a>
Web site</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The Open Flash plugin by Olivier
Debon, available from <a href="http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/5084/flash.html">http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/5084/flash.html</a></font></font></li>
</ol>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>I found links to both on the
linuxartist.org site, which is how I got the idea for this article in the
first place. I jumped to their respective Web sites, downloaded binaries
for both (plus the source for the Open Flash version) and installed them.
Installation of both plugins is easy enough - just copy the plugins (files
with .so suffices) to your $HOME/.netscape/plugins directory. If
you don't have a plugins directory under $HOME/.netscape, just create it:</font></font>
<blockquote><tt><font size=-1>% cd $HOME/.netscape</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=-1>% mkdir </font></tt>plugins</blockquote>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Don't put both into the plugins
directory at the same time. Its not clear which one will get run
if you do this, although I suspect the first matching plugin wins.
After you copy the plugin into its directory, and if you already have Netscape
running, you can type the following in the Location field:</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font size=-1><font face="Arial,Helvetica"> </font><tt>javascript:navigator.plugins.refresh</tt></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>That will get Netscape to
update its plugins list. You can verify this</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>worked by typing</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font size=-1><font face="Arial,Helvetica"> </font><tt>about:plugins</tt></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>in the same Location field.
If for some reason this doesn't work, exit and restart Netscape and you
should see the plugins listed when you use the "about" command.</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Note: There is a Linux-based
Flash Generator available from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/">http://www.swift-tools.com/</a>.
This doesn't create the Flash file, it only allows you to manage it <i>after</i>
its created, such as to modify it to generate on-the-fly weather maps.
You still need the Macromedia Flash 3 authoring tool to create the original
Flash 3 file.</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Both of these are Flash 3.0
plugins, although they don't both support the complete 3.0 specification
yet. The test system was a Cyrix 200, 64Mb memory, running Netscape
4.51 with an Xi Graphics AcceleratedX X server on a stock Red Hat 5.2 (Linux
2.0.36) system. Sound on my system is run through the commercial
version of the Open Sound System driver from <a href="http://www.4front-tech.com">4Front
Technologies.</a> I restarted Netscape between invokations of each
plugin, to make sure there weren't memory leak problems in one that might
cause the other to fail. In testing these, I picked out a set of
Flash 3.0 web sites that were linked from either the Open Flash site or
the Macromedia gallery site, or both.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<table BORDER CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 NOSAVE >
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<td NOSAVE><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Web Site</font></font></b></td>
<td NOSAVE>
<center><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>MacroMedia Flash
Plugin</font></font></b></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+1>Open Flash Plugin</font></font></b></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr NOSAVE>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.flash.com/software/flash/gallery">Macromedia's
Flash site</a></font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>worked fine</font></font></td>
<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Ran faster than Macromedia's
plugin on this page, but after the thumbnail images were positioned at
the bottom of the window the images inside the boxes disappeared.
Moving the mouse in the window caused the Flash file to replay, and moving
the mouse out of the window caused the flash file to clear (ie nothing
was displayed but the blue background). If you try to click on a
box, everything starts over but if you don't move your mouse <i>after</i>
you do that you can actually select that box the next time. Unfortunately,
nothing plays after that. At this point I gave up on this site.</font></font></td>
</tr>
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<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.fusionary.com/fm/flash3.html">Fusionary
Media's Flash 3 samples page</a></font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>worked fine</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Crashed Netscape as soon
as I placed the cursor over the animated tree.</font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.sarbakan.com/ARCANE/">ARCANE</a>
- An animated online mystery game. Very little sound as far as I
could tell.</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>worked fine</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>worked fine, but might have
been a little slower than the Macromedia player.</font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr BGCOLOR="#33CCFF" NOSAVE>
<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/5084/flash/linux.html">The
Open Flash test site</a></font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>no problems</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>no problems</font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.shockrave.com/
">ShockRave</a>
- various music, cartoons, and games based on Flash and Shockwave.
Took too long to load, though.</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>no problems for what little
I played of it</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>no problems for what little
I played of it</font></font></td>
</tr>
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<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.buffy.com/home.html">Official
Buffy the Vampire Slayer site</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Takes a while to load, but
the feed was continuous (no stalls) so it loaded moderately quick.
Doesn't play much while its loading, however. Kind of a corny site
- the sounds really don't add much to the animations and all the individual
animations/sounds are very short loops.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font> </td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>played all of it just fine</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Appeared to play the small
"Buffy" animation (center of screen) better than the Macromedia player.
This site is supposed to have PNG-based (or PNG-like?) animations so maybe
the Open Flash player handles those better. However, it plays the
animations and audio for all the navigation images much faster, plus it
only plays the loops once.</font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.snarg.net/">http://www.snarg.net/</a>
- Artistic, for lack of a better description.</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>played all of it just fine</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Crashed netscape</font></font></td>
</tr>
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<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.secretops.com/">Wing
Commander SecretOps site</a>, from Origin</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Another big download, but
it does play some as it loads. You get to see the UI for Wing Commander
using a Flash 3.0 implementation. Kinda neat. The audio wasn't
all that interesting, though.</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>played all of it just fine</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>played all of it just fine</font></font></td>
</tr>
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<td ALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN="3" NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<br><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica">And the three coolest sites I found...</font></b>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font> </td>
</tr>
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<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.gabocorp.com/">Gabocorp</a>
- Fairly cool site for Gabocorp, a graphics arts/Web design company.
A little slow in loading but plays a little background musing (booming
sounds) while it loads).</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>played all of it just fine</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The intro text, which sort
of unscrolls top to bottom, plays more jumpy than the Macromedia player
did. The Open Flash player was playing from the cache while Macromedia
played from the net. I wonder if that makes a difference? Hitting
the "next" key didn't clear the previous text so the newly displayed, unscrolling
text became garbled. This site didn't quite work right with the Open
Flash player, although it didn't crash Netscape.</font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.matinee.co.uk/">Matinee
Sound and Vision</a> - includes sound but take a long time to load over
a 28.8 modem (over 300K downloads). Fairly high "Wow" factor (as
they say on their site).</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font> </td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>no problems with audio or
video</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Played intro quite well,
but then opened a new Navigator window while playing second page audio.
Sound got completely out of sync too. The second page should have
played completely in the original Navigator window - I don't know why the
second window opened.</font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr BGCOLOR="#33CCFF" NOSAVE>
<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.eye4u.com/">EYE4U
Active Media site</a> - includes sound and video; one of the absolutely
coolest sites I've ever been too! Plays while it loads! Easily
the fastest site I went to.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font> </td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>no problems with audio or
video</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Sound played badly but the
animations seem to be ok (a little jumpy but ok). However, when it
reached a point where the user is supposed to place the mouse over some
small balls, the original Flash file replayed. That wasn't supposed
to happen.</font></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The Open Flash package includes
a standalone Flash player so you can test Flash files without having to
run Netscape Navigator. However, its README states it doesn't currently
support morphing, alpha blending or anti-aliasing and its sound support
is limited. Running this version (0.4.3) of the Open Flash plugin
wouldn't allow me to get to the Gallery from the main Flash Web site at
<a href="http://www.flash.com">www.flash.com</a>. I had to go directly
to the gallery page (see link in table).</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>While testing all the sites
running with the Macromedia Flash plugin there was not a single crash of
Netscape. I'd say thats a pretty solid plugin. I had absolutely
no problems using this plugin with any site I visited.</font></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>So, although the Open Flash
plugin still has a few problems, both of these plugins offer you a chance
to see some very interesting sites out there. I highly recommend,
if you're into some flashy (pardon the pun) pages, that you give these
plugins a try. You've got little to lose, right?</font></font>
<p>
<hr NOSHADE WIDTH="100%">
<p><a NAME="musings"></a>
<table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=3 COLS=2 NOSAVE >
<tr NOSAVE>
<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="245" NOSAVE><img SRC="images/musings.jpg" height=50 width=245></td>
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</table>
<h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica">Vector Drawing on Linux - XFig, TGIF and friends</font></h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Over the past year we've heard
a lot about the killer app for Linux - Gimp, the Photoshop-like tool for
graphic arts work. By now many of you may even be sick of hearing
about it. Especially if what you really need isn't a raster-based
effects package, but a vector-based drawing tool. For the past several
years you really only had two choices: XFig and TGIF. Recently,
a number of new projects have sprung up that aim to provide more modern
interfaces and features for vector-based tools. Despite the abundance
of enthusiasm from the developers of those projects, none is quite ready
for the average Joe Newbie, particularly because few of them are as easy
to build and install as the two grandfathers in this category of applications.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The first thing I did was
try to find what vector tools are currently available. A new site,
<a href="http://www.linuxartist.org">linuxartist.org</a>,
has several listed. A couple aren't tools for creating vector graphics.
The Flash plug-ins are only for viewing images, so I didn't look at them
for this article (but see this months <a href="#webwonderings">Web Wonderings)</a>.
The other tools I did look at were</font></font>
<ul>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>xfig</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>tgif</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>sketch</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>killustrator</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>GILT</font></font></li>
<li>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>ipad/xebot</font></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>There are also vector based
drawing tools available in the <a href="http://www.applix.com">ApplixWare</a>
and <a href="http://www.stardivision.com">StarOffice</a> commercial packages.
The ApplixWare version is a little limited in features, but very stable
and easy to use. Installation of ApplixWare was quite simple as well.
I haven't used StarOffice's StarDraw package so can't speak of its ease
of installation, stability, or feature set, although the specifications
for it on the StarDivision web site seem fairly impressive. Core's
CorelDraw package is also due out sometime this year, I believe.
I don't know anything about it, however. I'll save a head-to-head
review of these commercial packages for a later date.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>By far the easiest vector
tool to build and install was <b><font color="#993300">tgif</font></b>,
which required only an "xmkmf; make" for Linux systems. No editing
of any configuration files was necessary. <b><font color="#993300">XFig</font></b>
was probably the next easiest, although it had quite a few configurable
items to set in the Makefile if you wanted to get things optimized and
looking their best. Of the rest, I was only able to get XEBOT running
under a limited environment. The others required extra packages that
were not already available on my Red Hat system or that were not complete
enough on my system in order to build or install the drawing tool.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><b><font color="#993300">Sketch</font></b>
is based entirely on the Python intepreted language. Along with the
interpreter and libraries, you also need an additional image library called
PIL - the Python Imaging Library. Unfortunately, this doesn't build
with my RPM-based Python that was installed when I installed Red Hat 5.2.
This library expects some other parts which I could only get if I built
Python itself and installed it. I tried to build Python without installing
it to see if I could tell PIL where that was, but it became too much work
in the long run. Sketch, therefore, is more of a developers toy than
an artists (or average users) tool.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><b><font color="#993300">KIllustrator</font></b>
turned out to be much like Sketch, at least for me and from an installation
point of view. Its tied to KDE, which means I need to install KDE
just to get it to work (not to mention the Qt libraries). I glanced
through the KDE web site and decided there were far too many packages to
try to install just to get KIllustrator running. Red Hat 6.0 is supposed
to include KDE so maybe I'll try it then, when I have less work to do in
order to get it running. Personally, I think applications should
be KDE and GNOME aware, but they shouldn't be tied to those environments.
Not if you want to reach the largest possible audience.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><b><font color="#993300">GILT</font></b>
simply didn't compile. It does include a "configure" script-based
build process, but apparently its not quite ready for the average Joe's
use. I sent email to the author but really didn't give him much time
to respond (Muse deadlines, once again, running up against work that pays).
In fairness, GILT is listed as being in very early development so its not
unexpected that this particular tool isn't ready for the average user.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><b><font color="#993300">IPAD/XEBOT
</font></b><font color="#000000">required
an 8-bit display to function. I tried XEBOT first, which is supposed
to contain all of the features of IPAD, plus a few more. Even when
I switched to 8-bit mode (which was a bit of a pain because my FVWM environment
doesn't look correct in that mode) I wasn't able to do anything useful.
The UI is very user unfriendly. It uses an interface that is obviously
platform inspecific and drops it inside of a generic X window. It
just wasn't what I was looking for, especially since I'm not concerned
with usability on non-Unix platforms. IPAD looked and worked about
the same as XEBOT.</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>When it came right down to
it, I was back to the old favorites, XFig and TGIF. Since I couldn't
really get the others to work very well, I thought I'd do a little side
by side comparison of these two. A little head to head competition,
if you will. If you don't like these two, and are up to the challenge
of getting one of the others to work, you at least have a choice these
days.</font></font>
<h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>TGIF vs XFig</font></font></h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The easiest to learn to use
was probably TGIF, but both TGIF and XFIG have so many features its easy
to get lost in them. I'd have to say TGIF's interface is more intuitive,
using familiar menu configurations (File is on the left of the menu bar,
for example). TGIF is a little easier to use initially. Its
seems more intuitive to be able to draw a shape, then select it to edit
its points. XFig allows this, but the method to get to editing the
points seems a little harder to figure out. For example, with TGIF
you select an object to edit by clicking on it while in selection mode.
In XFig you select "Move Points" and all the points for all visible objects
are shown. You then click on one to move it. The hard part
was finding the hotspot for the points in XFig. You really have to
get right on the little boxes (which represent the points) to grab them.
In TGIF, however, the hot spots are larger and you only mess with the objects
you specifically selected.</font></font>
<br>
<center><table BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 NOSAVE >
<tr NOSAVE>
<td COLSPAN="3" NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Sure,
the problem here may be my unfamiliarity with using XFig. But I'm
also a GUI designer by trade so I understand about usability issues.
XFig's buttons across the top are either discreet features or menus, with
the menus on the right side of that set of buttons. This is counter
to standard UI design styles, where menus are on the left, especially the
File menu. Additionally, TGIF uses standard layouts for most of its
dialogs. XFig does not. For example, look for the Cancel button
on the File Selection dialog in XFig versus where its located on any other
dialog. Seldom the same twice. TGIF's dialogs are more standardized,
which makes them easier to learn.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>One feature which both tools
have is a visual display of what the mouse buttons do for any selected
feature. In TGIF this is along the bottom of the window. In
XFig it is in the upper right corner. I like XFig's implementation
of this better because its simpler - three buttons side by side, with text
to the sides or above the buttons. TGIF's is cute - the icons for
the mouse are more realistic - but visually it takes a moment to get your
bearings on which text goes with which button. Its not difficult,
mind you, I just prefer XFigs implementation.</font></font></td>
<td ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER NOSAVE>
<center><table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 BGCOLOR="#66FFFF" NOSAVE >
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<td NOSAVE>
<center><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#993300"><font size=-1>TGIF</font></font></font></b></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#993300"><font size=-1>XFIG</font></font></font></b></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Ease of Setup</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>4</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>4</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>User Interface</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>4</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>2</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Look and Feel</font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1> </font></font></td>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1> </font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>
Ease of Use</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>4</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>2</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>
Online Help</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>2</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>4</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Documentation</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>3</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>4</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Example files</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>1</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>5</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>File Import</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>3</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>3</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>File Export</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>3</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center>3</center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr NOSAVE>
<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Overall Rating</font></font></td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>3</font></font></center>
</td>
<td>
<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>3.375</font></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr NOSAVE>
<td ALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN="3" BGCOLOR="#993300" NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFF99"><font size=-1>Ratings:
1=Poor, 5=Superb</font></font></font></td>
</tr>
</table></center>
</td>
</tr>
</table></center>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>One feature which both tools
have is a visual display of what the mouse buttons do for any selected
feature. In TGIF this is along the bottom of the window. In
XFig it is in the upper right corner. I like XFig's implementation
of this better because its simpler - three buttons side by side, with text
to the sides or above the buttons. TGIF's is cute - the icons for
the mouse are more realistic - but visually it takes a moment to get your
bearings on which text goes with which button. Its not difficult,
mind you, I just prefer XFigs implementation.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Rulers are handled differently
in the two programs too. In TGIF you have the traditional slider
bars to move the page around. The bottom slider is rather small,
it doesn't expand the width of the visible page. In XFig you click
and drag within the rulers themselves to move around the page. This
one is a toss up. TGIF's method is familiar, but XFig makes the rulers
serve a dual purpose and thus saves a little screen space. I like
both methods equally well.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>TGIF imports XBM, XPM, GIF,
and EPS files and has an interface for adding other import filters.
XFig imports the same, plus JPEG and PCX files. The difference is
that TGIF calls this "Import", while you have to know to click on the camera
icon to import a "Picture" in XFig.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>XFig easily wins on the file
export side. If you're into Latex then you're in luck because XFig
supports a wide range of Latex export options. Additionally, it supports
all the well supported Web image formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, XBM, etc.
TGIF supports GIF and a few others, but its export capabilities aren't
quite as extensive as XFig's. TGIF also exports via its print function,
which isn't the obvious place to put it. Both tools support export
to Postscript. Strangely enough, I wasn't able to get XFig to export
to any file format. I also wasn't able to print because XFig said
it couldn't open a temporary file. I think my installation wasn't
quite correct and may have been the cause of these problems. Still,
the print features of both appear fairly decent, with both making use of
the basic print facilities on your Linux box.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>All this talks about fairly
mundane issues. What about real feature comparison? Well, both
support a wide range of drawing primitives: circles and ovals, boxes,
freehand drawings, polygons, polylines, and arcs. TGIF has a few
other canned shapes that may or may not be useful. XFig provides
a few different methods for doing splines (closed or open curves).
Both provide text input, with XFig providing far more fonts. However,
neither makes use of your complete set of installed fonts - they each have
their own font support. I have to say, although XFig offers far more
font options, the dialog which provides it is rather, well, unusual looking.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Summary:</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>When I first started looking
at XFig I thought it was pretty nifty. This was even after having
used TGIF in the past. But when I compared the two side by side I
found I much preferred TGIF. Its just simpler to use. Looking
at the rating chart you might think I'd recommend XFig over TGIF.
Not necessarily. In my case I'm concerned with ease of use and the
time it takes to get to doing productive work. Here, TGIF is a better
choice. XFig wins points for extensive documentation (and should
be applauded loudly for this considering how many Open Source products
come with so little, and/or so poor, documentation) and a large collection
of examples that come directly with the source distribution.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>There may be a few more features
in XFig that TGIF doesn't have that some users will need. If thats
the case then definitely check out XFig. In fact, I recommend you
take a look at both of them anyway. You may find the problems I see
in the XFig UI just don't bother you as much. Both tools are quite
extensive in basic drawing features and I'm sure one of them will provide
at least some measure of satisfaction for your vector-based needs.</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>[ <a href="musings.html">Summary
of Vector Drawing Tools for Linux ]</a></font></font>
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<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>The following links are
just starting points for finding more information about computer graphics
and multimedia in general for Linux systems. If you have some application
specific information for me, I'll add them to my other pages or you can
contact the maintainer of some other web site. I'll consider adding other
general references here, but application or site specific information needs
to go into one of the following general references and not listed here.</font></font>
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<td NOSAVE><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Online Magazines
and News sources </font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.news.com/">C|Net
Tech News</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.eklektix.com/lwn/">Linux
Weekly News</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot.org</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://TheGimp.com">TheGimp.com</a></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>General Web Sites </font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.graphics-muse.org/linux.html">Linux
Graphics</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html">Linux
Sound/Midi Page</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://linuxartist.org">Linux
Artist.org</a></font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Some of the Mailing Lists
and Newsgroups I keep an eye on and where I get much of the information
in this column </font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.gimp.org">The
Gimp User and Gimp Developer Mailing Lists</a>. </font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.irtc.org">The
IRTC-L discussion list</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="news:comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing">comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="news:comp.graphics.rendering.renderman">comp.graphics.rendering.renderman</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="news:comp.graphics.api.opengl">comp.graphics.api.opengl</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="news:comp.os.linux.announce">comp.os.linux.announce</a></font></font></td>
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<h2>
Future Directions</h2>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>Next month:</font></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1><a href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">Let
me know what you'd like to hear about!</a></font></font>
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<div align=right><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>© 1999
<a href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">Michael
J. Hammel</a></font></font></div>
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<center><H4>Previous ``Graphics Muse'' Columns</H4></center>
<p>
<A HREF="../../issue11/gm.html">Graphics Muse #1, November 1996</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue12/gm.html">Graphics Muse #2, December 1996</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue13/gm.html">Graphics Muse #3, January 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue14/gm.html">Graphics Muse #4, February 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue15/gm.html">Graphics Muse #5, March 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue16/gm.html">Graphics Muse #6, April 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue17/gm.html">Graphics Muse #7, May 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue18/gm.html">Graphics Muse #8, June 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue19/gm.html">Graphics Muse #9, July 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue20/gm.html">Graphics Muse #10, August 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue22/gm.html">Graphics Muse #11, October 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue23/gm.html">Graphics Muse #12, December 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue25/gm.html">Graphics Muse #13, February 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue26/gm.html">Graphics Muse #14, March 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue27/gm.html">Graphics Muse #15, April 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue31/gm.html">Graphics Muse #16, August 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue32/gm.html">Graphics Muse #17, September 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue33/gm.html">Graphics Muse #18, October 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue34/gm.html">Graphics Muse #19, November 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue37/gm.html">Graphics Muse #20, February 1999</A><BR>
<A HREF="../../issue38/gm.html">Graphics Muse #21, March 1999</A><BR>
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