Re: [CREATE] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 released (Re: CREATE Digest, Vol 134, Issue 1)

2017-01-01 Thread Jan Claeys 
On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 23:04 +, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Are you aware that Xamarin Mono, besides having a open-source (MIT-
> licensed) C# compiler mcs, also have a visual-basic compiler, vbnc,
> which should be already available on most libre os'es? I see
> RealBasic's compiler is non-free, but they do/did provide a visual
> basic convertor so presumably the two *basic'es are close enough.

FWIW, Gambas is another open source “Visual Basic”-like language:

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/

(Something like C++ plus Qt might still be more "universally" useful.)


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[CREATE] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 released (Re: CREATE Digest, Vol 134, Issue 1)

2016-12-23 Thread Hin-Tak Leung 
Are you aware that Xamarin Mono, besides having a open-source (MIT-licensed) C# 
compiler mcs, also have a visual-basic compiler, vbnc, which should be already 
available on most libre os'es? I see RealBasic's compiler is non-free, but they 
do/did provide a visual basic convertor so presumably the two *basic'es are 
close enough.

I would also suggest that you simply post a binary (for windows? or RealBasic 
seems to support linux also...) just to see if the software is worth porting.

Whether you are in LG 2016 London,  or following this list, you might be aware 
that I ported one of Microsoft's recently opened C#-based project to build with 
mono, and run on Linux/Mac also - I am quite familiar with mono, but haven't 
touched any *Basic code for about two decades :-) ... I am not looking for 
repeating the Microsoft experience any time too soon though, given how it 
turned out - the mojority of users are trollish(?) non-libre users, which sort 
of defeat the purpose - that may happen to you too: you may not attract the 
users you want, and the past/existing users of the said software aren't the 
types you enjoy donating your time to... but those are my suggestions: post 
some current binary/binaries first, and look at mono vbnc.


 Message: 1
 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:01:35 +0100
 From: "Christoph Schäfer" 
 Subject: [CREATE] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0
 released
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 Colour Software Release Planned
 ===
 
 freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour also intends to release a
 previously closed-source colour software product written in
 RealBasic as Open Source under a GPL 2+ licence. fF / fC
 hopes to find contributors who are interested in porting the
 code from RealBasic to C++ and Qt, as well as merging the
 features of Swatchbooker and the original product. The
 majority of the code is UI-related, but the essential
 algorithms (the core of the product) are well-commented. Any
 assistance with respect to the organisation of the release
 of the source code would be welcome.
 
 
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[CREATE] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 released

2016-12-22 Thread Christoph Schäfer 
Open Colour Systems 2.0 Released


freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is pleased to announce the release of Open Colour 
Systems Collection (OCSC) 2.0.

Following the release of OCSC 1.0, freieFarbe / freeColour has been been 
recognised by German authorities as a non-profit organisation. The release of 
OCSC is the first one after the official recognition.

OCSC 2.0 comprises ten additional colour palettes. More importantly, it is now 
also available in Adobe's Swatch Exchange Format (ASE), as well as a Plain Text 
Format version with the file extension CLF.

All colours have been measured from vendor-supplied colour references with a 
spectrophotometer.

Since freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is an advocate of the use of the CIE LAB/HLC 
colour model as a free and reasonable alternative to proprietary colour 
collections, colour values in the palette files are in CIE LAB.

Download


SBZ: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_SBZ.zip
SHA1 checksum: 6b2bab7dde9e5fe9e8778ee9f79f31edcaa8cef8

ASE: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_ASE.zip
SHA1 checksum: fea350149e2b95af55f36e283fe597f279d3f79c

CLF: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_CLF.zip
SHA1 checksum: e65fd94db7f0d6484df9ce0cf0288ecd328ec655


In addition, OCSC 2.0 has been released in three RGB versions for use in 
LibreGraphics programmes that don't support the LAB colour model and/or one of 
the formats listed above (yet). The formats are: GPL (GIMP, Inkscape, Calligra 
Office, Krita, MyPaint), SOC (Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org), 
and XML (Scribus 1.4.x).

Download


GPL: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_GPL.zip
SHA1 checksum: c0eefb3a74f658c9c201d5671b4af6a085650cbb

SOC: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_SOC.zip
SHA1 checksum: 318d8fbaf391b0ec39fa433e807e3ec658381376

XML: http://freiefarbe.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/OCSC_20_ScrXML.zip
SHA1 checksum: da456792dc89445022ab4ae1af3f5ccedc722cd6


A complete package with all supported formats is available here: 
http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/freeware/OCSC_20.zip
SHA1 checksum: e65fd94db7f0d6484df9ce0cf0288ecd328ec655


In addition, freieFarbe / freeColour provides other colour-related software for 
free here: http://freecolour.org/



Colour Software Release Planned
===

freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour also intends to release a previously closed-source 
colour software product written in RealBasic as Open Source under a GPL 2+ 
licence. fF / fC hopes to find contributors who are interested in porting the 
code from RealBasic to C++ and Qt, as well as merging the features of 
Swatchbooker and the original product. The majority of the code is UI-related, 
but the essential algorithms (the core of the product) are well-commented. Any 
assistance with respect to the organisation of the release of the source code 
would be welcome.



About freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour:
===


freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is a non-profit organisation that was founded in 
2016 by German and Swiss colour professionals after having worked as an 
informal initiative without legal status for several years. our motto is "We 
want to unchain colours". The organisation is looking for cooperation with 
colour experts, software developers and users around the globe who share our 
goals. You are invited to become a member and/or contribute your own project.

freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour is convinced that the design world will benefit 
from truly free colours and better colour software.



December 2016

Holger Everding
Christoph Schäfer

www.freiefarbe.de
www.freecolour.org
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