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Friday, May 11, 2018

Fedora 28 : The LibreCAD application.

LibreCAD - originally CADuntu is a free Open Source CAD application and today I tested with my Fedora 28.
The content for this application is available under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike. LibreCAD is a free and open-source and can be downloaded from official webpage.
Let's see the install process of this tool:
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install librecad.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 3:00:39 ago on Fri 11 May 2018 07:51:19 PM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package                  Arch          Version             Repository     Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 librecad                 x86_64        2.1.0-7.fc28        fedora        2.3 M
Installing dependencies:
 libdxfrw                 x86_64        0.6.3-8.fc28        fedora        438 k
 librecad-fonts           noarch        2.1.0-7.fc28        fedora         11 M
 librecad-langs           noarch        2.1.0-7.fc28        fedora        603 k
 librecad-parts           noarch        2.1.0-7.fc28        fedora        903 k
 librecad-patterns        noarch        2.1.0-7.fc28        fedora        217 k
 shapelib                 x86_64        1.4.1-2.fc28        fedora         80 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  7 Packages

Total download size: 15 M
Installed size: 109 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/7): libdxfrw-0.6.3-8.fc28.x86_64.rpm         658 kB/s | 438 kB     00:00    
(2/7): librecad-langs-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch.rpm   1.4 MB/s | 603 kB     00:00    
(3/7): librecad-2.1.0-7.fc28.x86_64.rpm         1.5 MB/s | 2.3 MB     00:01    
(4/7): librecad-parts-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch.rpm   1.6 MB/s | 903 kB     00:00    
(5/7): shapelib-1.4.1-2.fc28.x86_64.rpm         1.3 MB/s |  80 kB     00:00    
(6/7): librecad-patterns-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch.rp 1.3 MB/s | 217 kB     00:00    
(7/7): librecad-fonts-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch.rpm   3.0 MB/s |  11 MB     00:03    
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Total                                           3.5 MB/s |  15 MB     00:04     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : shapelib-1.4.1-2.fc28.x86_64                           1/7 
  Running scriptlet: shapelib-1.4.1-2.fc28.x86_64                           1/7 
  Installing       : librecad-patterns-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                  2/7 
  Installing       : librecad-parts-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                     3/7 
  Installing       : librecad-langs-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                     4/7 
  Installing       : librecad-fonts-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                     5/7 
  Installing       : libdxfrw-0.6.3-8.fc28.x86_64                           6/7 
  Running scriptlet: libdxfrw-0.6.3-8.fc28.x86_64                           6/7 
  Installing       : librecad-2.1.0-7.fc28.x86_64                           7/7 
  Running scriptlet: librecad-2.1.0-7.fc28.x86_64                           7/7 
  Verifying        : librecad-2.1.0-7.fc28.x86_64                           1/7 
  Verifying        : libdxfrw-0.6.3-8.fc28.x86_64                           2/7 
  Verifying        : librecad-fonts-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                     3/7 
  Verifying        : librecad-langs-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                     4/7 
  Verifying        : librecad-parts-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                     5/7 
  Verifying        : librecad-patterns-2.1.0-7.fc28.noarch                  6/7 
  Verifying        : shapelib-1.4.1-2.fc28.x86_64                           7/7 

Installed:
  librecad.x86_64 2.1.0-7.fc28          libdxfrw.x86_64 0.6.3-8.fc28            
  librecad-fonts.noarch 2.1.0-7.fc28    librecad-langs.noarch 2.1.0-7.fc28      
  librecad-parts.noarch 2.1.0-7.fc28    librecad-patterns.noarch 2.1.0-7.fc28   
  shapelib.x86_64 1.4.1-2.fc28         

Complete!
I start the application from command shell and this is the output I got.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ librecad 
RS_DEBUG::setLevel(3)
RS_DEBUG: Critical
RS_DEBUG: Errors
RS_DEBUG: Warnings
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
The application works great I don't know from where come the errors.
You can used to test your skills into the area of
The official manual can be found here.
This is a screenshot from my Fedora 28 distro:

Fedora 28 : The Spin tool for 2D animation.

The spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for your video games.
This tool comes with features to building great looking animations.
Spine exports animation data in its own, documented JSON and binary formats.
You can export animated GIFs, PNG or JPEG image sequences and AVI or QuickTime video.
I install the trial version into my Fedora 28 distro easy.
First, you need to download it and unarchive from the official website.
The next step will start with this command:
[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd SpineTrial/
[mythcat@desk SpineTrial]$ dir
examples  launcher  license.txt  runtimes  scripts  SpineTrial.sh
[mythcat@desk SpineTrial]$ sh SpineTrial.sh 
Spine Launcher 3.6.49 Trial
Linux amd64 4.16.6-302.fc28.x86_64
Java 1.7.0_80 Esoteric Software
64-bit Server VM
Downloading: Spine 3.7.16-beta Trial
Update complete.
Spine 3.7.16-beta Trial
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop 
3.0 Mesa 18.0.2
Resetting hotkeys (new version).
Using customized hotkeys.
Started.
May 10, 2018 6:54:08 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences checkLockFile0ErrorCode
WARNING: Could not lock System prefs. Unix error code 0.
May 10, 2018 6:54:08 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: 
Couldn't get file lock.
May 10, 2018 6:54:38 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences checkLockFile0ErrorCode
WARNING: Could not lock System prefs. Unix error code 0.
May 10, 2018 6:54:38 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences syncWorld
WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: 
Couldn't get file lock
You can some warnings but the tool works great.
More about graphics and Linux design you can find articles on my website.
Look at these screenshots with Spine tool: