SoC2007 Live CD

Here are some ideas regarding DTP Live CD.

The aim of this project is to create a costume GNU/Linux Live CD bundled with FOSS applications used in Desktop Publishing field. This is to make it ready out-of-box for non Linux users and newcomers, and any one else as well.

base distro
I think Ubuntu is a good choice for a base distro, because:
 * Being a debian based distro, so we can benefit from all debian technologies (like apt) and community support as well.
 * It is one of the most widely used distros these days, it has a very wide user base and well established community support.
 * Virtually any piece of software available for debian is available for ubuntu at the same time, which mean we've an extensive set of available applications.

''Be careful: (K)Ubuntu's version of Qt has some nasty bugs that cause issues with Scribus and other Qt based programs. I suggest you use Debian/Knoppix instead.''

3-D software

 * blender
 * Art of Illusion requires Java
 * planetGenesis

Clipart

 * OpenClipArt (maybe OOo and/or scribus 1.4 can be shipped with OpenClipArt integration)
 * collection of maps for OOo from http://ooo.hg.free.fr/
 * Even more clipart (and OOo templates) from http://www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~openoff/proooboxorg/cdinhalt/html/artwork.html
 * The GIMP user group provides a collection of images produced with GIMP. Maybe they are worth being included, in case the copyrights allow for that (pls. check with the creators before using).

Desktop environment(s)

 * KDE base
 * I strongly recommend KDE as default. We can show off drag and drop.--Mrdocs 22:27, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It might be useful to include the KDE Baghira theme for MacOS X users. A little script that changes the desktop to Baghira could be useful too, together with a short description ("If you want your desktop to resemble MacOS X, open Konsole and type ./macosxlook.sh, then hit "Enter", or something like that).

Documentation

 * grab all documentation available under a free license and make it easily accessible in a uniform layout (html, pdf)
 * introduction which autmatically shows up after "login" (similar to the current introduction to Knoppix)

Email clients
Needed for collaboration on the projects
 * Mozilla Thunderbird
 * Kmail or Kontact

Fonts

 * A collection of high quality fonts (type 1, ttf, otf) available for free distribution
 * (Be careful with distribution provisions in license when it comes to fonts)
 * Remove crummy fonts so they can't accidentally be used for production

ftp://ftp.gust.org.pl/pub/GUST/contrib/fonts/ Description and links to font packages (pl)
 * Install this collection of well designed free fonts for Central Europe, provided by Polish TeX User Group:


 * See also fonts listed in Right font 4 right purpose

Font utilities

 * Fontforge
 * Fontlinge


 * pfaedit, old version of Fontforge. Why? -> Can import glyphs from SVG files! why fontgorge can't?

HTML editors

 * Quanta+
 * NVU

Image viewers

 * gwenview
 * Digikam - photo management tool + showfoto (with libgphoto2 support)
 * Showimg
 * imgSeek

Layout

 * Scribus stable &mdash; currently 1.3.x series
 * Scribus cvs snapshot &mdash; installed as an addition to the stable version, for those wanting to use latest improvements

Misc Utils/Apps

 * kde-extras Kcolor, Kruler
 * kde-graphics-scan (kooka + x-sane)
 * Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia
 * xsane http://www.xsane.org/
 * lcms
 * LPROF
 * ICC Examin
 * PoDoFo + PoDoFo Browser (requires Qt4)
 * k3b - DTP files can become huge, so it's a good idea to have a cd burner handy.
 * kxmleditor - A fine editor for xml files, can be handy to repair damaged SVG and sla files.

Postscript and pdf instruments

 * gs-afpl >= 8.50
 * Gsview
 * Pstoedit
 * Xpdf
 * kpdf 3.4
 * pdftohtml http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
 * Multivalent Java Tools - http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
 * pdftk - the pdf toolkit - http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ (or are we typically avoiding commandline tools ?)
 * PDF editor

Raster graphics

 * The GIMP or GIMPshop (including "separate"-plugin!)
 * Make sure all available plug-ins are included
 * ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/
 * KSnapshot
 * Cinepaint see: http://www.cinepaint.org
 * Krita
 * ExifTool (extracts EXIF, ICC, and many other informations from pictures) http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
 * Hugin, PTStitcher, PTOptimizer, Nona, Autopano-sift, Panorama-tools, Enblend, ptfilter, ... : tools to create panoramas from set of photos (lots of links from http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/panorama-tools/ )- Many tutorials on the web that could be a great added value, if their respective authors allow us to distribute them (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/, http://www.philohome.com/barrelpers/barrelpers2.htm, http://rbpark.ath.cx/tutorials.html, many others). Some tools / plugins for Gimp an also be found for correction of such pictures (barrel distortion, ...) (PTLens, clens,  for example). Sorry, no time to do further searches... Just a few ideas for now.

System software

 * Networking tools to enable establishing working network connection
 * Tools for installation of the Live system to HDD if necessary
 * CUPS
 * Apache (for CUPS and Batik) Apache not needed to run Batik, only compile
 * gutenprint (gimp-print 5.0)
 * JVM 1.4.2+ for running Batik and/or delineate

Trace tools

 * Autotrace http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/
 * Frontline - GUI front end to autotrace http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/frontline/
 * Potrace http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
 * pstoedit http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit
 * potracegui http://potracegui.sourceforge.net/
 * delineate - Java based GUI to autotrace and potrace http://delineate.sourceforge.net/

Typesetting

 * teTeX http://www.tug.org/teTeX
 * LyX http://www.lyx.org
 * Kile http://kile.sourceforge.net
 * Texmaker http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker
 * pdflatex http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex

Vector graphics

 * Inkscape
 * Batik - a collection of Apache XML modules for on the fly export/conversion of SVG http://xml.apache.org/batik/
 * Skencil - has the best SVG+EPS capabilities. Requires python-imaging http://www.skencil.org/
 * Karbon14 - A vector drawing application.
 * SVG importer for OpenOffice.org 2 (requires Java RE 1.5)

Web browsers
Needed for looking up materials and for collaboration over the web (include a bunch of DTP bookmarks)
 * Konqueror
 * Mozilla Firefox (with svg plugin...)

Word processor(s)
Required to edit large amounts of text easier than in scribus
 * OpenOffice.org
 * KWord (can be used for basic PDF editing)

OCR
It may be a good idea to bundle it with an OCR application with easy to use GUI.