Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program, A photoshop alternative

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GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple Paint program, with full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. It supports Photo Enhancement, Digital Retouching, Image format converter, Animation etc.

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raphael - JavaScript Vector Library

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raphael is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

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Cairo Graphics

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Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), XCB, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB.

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draw2d - 2D rendering for different output (raster, pdf, svg)

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Package draw2d is a pure go 2D vector graphics library with support for multiple output devices such as images (draw2d), pdf documents (draw2dpdf) and opengl (draw2dgl), which can also be used on the google app engine. It can be used as a pure go Cairo alternative. draw2d is released under the BSD license. See the documentation for more details. Click on an image above to get the pdf, generated with exactly the same draw2d code. The first image is the output of samples/geometry. The second image is the result of samples/postcript, which demonstrates that draw2d can draw postscript files into images or pdf documents with the ps package.

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canvas - Cairo in Go: vector to raster, SVG, PDF, EPS, WASM, OpenGL, Gio, etc.

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Canvas is a common vector drawing target that can output SVG, PDF, EPS, raster images (PNG, JPG, GIF, ...), HTML Canvas through WASM, OpenGL, and Gio. It has a wide range of path manipulation functionality such as flattening, stroking and dashing implemented. Additionally, it has a text formatter and embeds and subsets fonts (TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, or EOT) or converts them to outlines. It can be considered a Cairo or node-canvas alternative in Go. See the example below in Figure 1 for an overview of the functionality. Figure 1: top-left you can see text being fitted into a box, justified using Donald Knuth's linea breaking algorithm to stretch the spaces between words to fill the whole width. You can observe a variety of styles and text decorations applied, as well as support for LTR/RTL mixing and complex scripts. In the bottom-right the word "stroke" is being stroked and drawn as a path. Top-right we see a LaTeX formula that has been converted to a path. Left of that we see an ellipse showcasing precise dashing, notably the length of e.g. the short dash is equal wherever it is on the curve. Note that the dashes themselves are elliptical arcs as well (thus exactly precise even if magnified greatly). To the right we see a closed polygon of four points being smoothed by cubic Béziers that are smooth along the whole path, and the blue line on the left shows a smoothed open path. On the bottom you can see a rotated rasterized image. The result is equivalent for all renderers (PNG, PDF, SVG, etc.).

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rough - Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

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Rough.js is a light weight (~9kB gzipped) graphics library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths. Rough.js works with both Canvas and SVG.

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rough - Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

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Rough.js is a small (<9 kB) graphics library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths. Rough.js works with both Canvas and SVG.

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macSVG - macSVG - An open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view ---

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May 8, 2018 – macSVG v1.1.4 is released, with minor user interface improvements, and various bug fixes. See the Release Notes for details. macSVG is a MIT-licensed open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG 1.1 (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation.

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Macaw - Powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics Swift library with SVG support

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Macaw is a powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics library written in Swift. Modern designs contain tons of illustrations and complex animations. Mobile developers have to spend a lot of time on converting designs into native views that will be resizable for different screens. With Macaw you can reduce development time to a minimum and describe all graphics in high level scene elements. Or even render SVG graphics right from your design tool with Macaw events and animation support.

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Apache Batik - The Apache Foundation’s Java-based toolkit for SVG generation and manipulation

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Batik is a Java based toolkit for applications which handle images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation. The project's ambition is to give developers a set of core modules which can be used together or individually to support specific SVG solutions. Examples of modules are an SVG parser, an SVG generator and an SVG DOM implementation.

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GraphicsJS - A lightweight JavaScript graphics library with the intuitive API, based on SVG/VML technology

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GraphicsJS is a lightweight JavaScript graphics library with the intuitive API, based on SVG/VML technology.GraphicsJS is a JavaScript graphics library that allows you to draw absolutely anything, including any sort of interactive and animated graphics with any visual effects.

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Inkscape

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A Linux, Windows amp; OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.

KOffice - office suite for KDE

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KOffice consists of several applications that offer a specialized interface for a certain task to a generic set of content components. Its office suite includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases, project planning.

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JAMSVGImage - Display resolution independent SVGs in iOS.

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A set of classes for parsing and rendering resolution-independent SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files in your iOS application. The nerdy details: JAMSVGImage parses SVG files and transforms all 'path' elements into a collection of stylized UIBezierPath objects which are rendered (at any scale) at the device's native resolution at runtime. SVG files are typically produced with 2D drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape.

kdenlive - Powerful multi-track video editor

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Kdenlive is a video editor, which supports DV, AVCHD (experimental support) and HDV editing. Kdenlive relies on several other open source projects, such as FFmpeg and MLT video framework. It is designed to answer all needs, from basic video editing to semi-professionnal work. Kdenlive can read, edit and export Flash video. Kdenlive supports most audio formats for reading, mixing and exporting. It also offers experimental support for non-destructive audio and video codec.

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raw - The missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization

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RAWGraphs is an open web tool to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library by Mike Bostock. It has been developed by DensityDesign Research Lab (Politecnico di Milano) and Calibro, and sustained through a corporate stewardship by ContactLab. Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, RAWGraphs aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, Google Docs, OpenRefine, …) and vector graphics editors (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, …).

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OpenSceneGraph - 3D graphics toolkit

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The OpenSceneGraph is an open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modelling. It is based around the concept of a SceneGraph, providing an object-oriented framework on top of OpenGL. This frees the developer from implementing and optimizing low-level graphics calls and provides many additional utilities for rapid development of graphics applications.

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giv

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giv, The G(reat|tk|NU) Image Viewer, is a 8-bit to 32-bit and floating point image and vector viewer for gtk+. It is designed especially for scientific vision and computational geometry and has support for drawing vector graphics on top of an image.

jspaint - 🎨 Classic MS Paint, ＲＥＶＩＶＥＤ + ✨Extras

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The goal is to remake MS Paint (including its little-known features), improve on it, and to extend the types of images it can edit. So far, it does this pretty well.Ah yes, good old paint. Not the one with the ribbons or the new skeuomorphic one with the interface that can take up nearly half the screen. And sorry, not the even newer Paint 3D.

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ADN - Animate.NET

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Animate.net is an application for creating 2D animations using vector graphics. It has a vector drawing interface similar to Inkscape and animation tools similar to Flash.