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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by minkiu »

guggle wrote: post #161
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

Wow, thank you for that, I didn't know Resolve. I do use KDEnlive but I can't say I'm satisfied with it.

There's also Olive Editor [1], still in Alpha but shows potential.

[1] https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by sirwitti »

Here's my non-cli list of to me usefuly software on linux (working as freelancer since 2010):

- Webstorm + Phpstorm: Amazing tools for web development

- Sublime text for simple text editing

- Meld for graphical diffs between files and directories. Very useful.

- Signal client: Using it more and more recently

- Spotify: That's not productivity though :)

- Joplin for markdown formatted note taking

- KeepassCX + FF extension: Works decently for password management. Though there's no solution for FF mobile as far as I know.

- Reaper for professional audio production (never liked audacity and ardour). There's also Bitwig which is more like Ableton live but quite expensive.

- Gimp: I use it but I don't like the user experience.

- Inkscape works pretty well for anything vector based

- Libreoffice: I tend to use calc regularly

- Darktable for raw image editing

- Arduino

- Figma for digital design (web-based, so not really linux)

- Nextcloud as file storage and for synching contacts and calendars.

- Zoom for video conferencing (need to try jitsi again though)

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by kervantas »

dav wrote: post #80

The main thing I miss from OS X is Droplr (pain free sharing of annotated screenshots) and Jumpcut (pastebuffer history tool). Can't find anything on Linux for either of those that works nearly as well. I can still go to an old Mac for occasional needs like Final Cut Pro but those are tools I used several/dozen of times every day before. I'm on PopOS.

> pastebuffer history tool Have you tried clipped? https://github.com/davidmhewitt/clipped

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by canistel »

DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #173
canistel wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In certain forms, text need to be filled in a series of square boxes. If there is an option to adjust character spacing, you can in fact fill such fields too using a monsospace font. But I am yet to come across an open source (or even free) tool (for annotating PDFs) which can adjust character spacing too. Can Xournal++ do it? If not, are there any other open source or free tools that can manage it?

If all else fails, convert to SVG in Inkscape and edit it there. Export back to PDF when you're done.

Yes, only that it has to be done page by page and then you have to merge the pages back.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by enriquto »

darkwinx wrote: post #175
enriquto wrote: post #165

The only thing that I miss in linux is a pdf viewer that can show inline animations (like those produced by LaTeX's "animate" package). I am still forced to run adobe's 32 bit pdf viewer because it is the only viewer available in linux that supports this kind of pdf.

I never know about pdf inline animation. Do you have some sample of pdf files that contain inline animation? I would like to try them on various pdf viewer.

The documentation of the "animate" package contains an example on the first page:

http://tug.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate/animate.pdf

Notice that, while this is just a silly example, animations are very useful in serious technical presentations. For example, in research about image or video processing, you often want to alternate automatically (without user interaction) between the "before" and "after" images, or along a few frames of a video sequence.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by kilroy123 »

sirwitti wrote: post #182

Here's my non-cli list of to me usefuly software on linux (working as freelancer since 2010): - Webstorm + Phpstorm: Amazing tools for web development - Sublime text for simple text editing - Meld for graphical diffs between files and directories. Very useful. - Signal client: Using it more and more recently - Spotify: That's not productivity though :) - Joplin for markdown formatted note taking - KeepassCX + FF exte…

I too use joplin and darktable on MacOS.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by app4soft »

rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

> 8. Tons and tons and tons of command line stuff that Linux is well known for

And this is what covered by "Linux Productivity Tools" slides.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by BerislavLopac »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96
gitgud wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. "Xournal" is amazing, small install footprint, simple interface and can do everything you need with pdf's. 5. You should try [1] "Kdenlive", it has it's quirks (as all linux tools do) but it's probably the best open-source Linux video editor out there. [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

A little out of topic, but which tool would you recommend for just the basic video editing on Linux? Nothing fancy, just cutting and pasting videos together, possibly with some simple transitions? Thanks!

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by app4soft »

rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

> 5. Technically I've tried video editing with OpenShot, but do find myself back at Final Cut Pro X on my now 6 year old Macbook Pro for that for now

Checkout Olive video editor.[0]

[0] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by app4soft »

lighttower wrote: post #118
rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

Not affiliated in anyway. Just a very happy customer, but want to plug PDF Studio [1]. I've used Atril, Evince, Adobe, PDFXChange (through WINE) and this PDF Studio (not FOSS) is worth every penny. It even interfaces with docusign (but you don't need it since you can import real digital signature) their support is amazing, and linux is first class there. [1] https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/

As for PDF editing there is Scribus, which is fully free open-source (FLOSS).[0]

Scribus also available for Linux as AppImage.[1]

[0] https://www.scribus.net

[1] https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/AppImages

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