Open Source Graphics Software

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

Want to print a poster? PosteRazor cuts an image file into pieces and you can print then on your printer and glue them together to a poster. Easy FLTK based user interface. Uses FreeImage for image loading. Creates PDFs as output.

Fonts and font metrics customarily distributed with Ghostscript. Currently includes the 35 standard PostScript fonts and a grab-bag of others.

NOTE: FontForge has moved to fontforge.github.io, newer binaries and sources are available at github.com/fontforge. FontForge allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts. You may create new ones or modify old ones. It is also a format converter and can interconvert between PostScript (ascii & binary Type1, some Type3, some Type0), TrueType, OpenType (Type2), CID, SVG

Barcode4J is a flexible generator for barcodes written in Java and available under the Apache License v2.0. Features: Extensions for Apache FOP, Xalan-J and SAXON, Servlet, command-line interface, output to SVG, EPS, Java2D/AWT and bitmaps.

Barbecue is a Java library that enables the creation of barcodes in a variety of standard formats that can be displayed as Swing/AWT components, included in printed output, generated as EPS and SVG and displayed in a web application.

This tool allows you to make your own unique cross stitch design from custom image. You can resize and rotate image, reduce the number of colors, change image palette, make cross stitch design, preview it, save and print. Cross stitch design edition available: colors and icons changing, new color addition, color fill, pixel draw, lines and half-stitches.

Converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).

This repository is now frozen. The latest version of the RepRap project can be found at https://github.com/reprap.

A C#/.net-library for encoding and decoding DataMatrix codes (based on a .net-port of libdmtx). DataMatrix.net also contains a small application for generating PDF documents containing different types of 1D- and 2D-codes.

Package for high-quality dynamic PDF documents/charts in real-time & high volumes from any data source. EPS and bitmap formats also supported. Ideal for automated reporting needs. See http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html.

FOray is an open-source XSL-FO publishing system that is suitable for converting XML content into PDF and other document formats. Although not yet fully conformant with the XSL-FO standard, it is very useful for many applications.

DoubleType is a type designer (font editor) that builds TrueType font files. Thanks to Java, it runs on Windows, Linux, & Mac. Glyphs are stored in XML based file to aid teamwork. Efficient glyph design by combining existing glyphs and modules.

The project Ada Bar Codes provides a framework for generating various types of bar codes (1D, or 2D, like QR codes) on different output formats and devices. Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/bar_codes Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/ada-bar-codes

Project is now hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/zippy1978/ghost4j

PDFRead is a tool for converting PDF and DJVU documents for reading on eBook devices. It does this by creating an image out of each page, enhancing the image and then collating the images in a device-specific format.

TclBitPrint is an extension to Tcl/Tk to provide printing on non-postscript printers. It consists of two parts, drawing code which uses the underlying emulated Xlib and is therefore completely generic, and platform specific dialogs etc.

LiveType Project focuses on the development of complete professional sets of typefaces using Fontforge. This project aims that everyone involved can learn more about typography and type developing. It will provide alternate fonts regularly to users.

An image postprocessor for the DIY Book Scanner described on instructables.com and diybookscanner.org. Gets images ready for OCR or for PDF. Written in Java based on a partial port of the Leptonica image processing library.

Facilitates the creation of valid Anothak Scrolls for Avalon by providing a user-friendly interface to generate Lierseth symbols. Provides the option for simple Lierseth or full-color scrolls.

EasyStudio is a open source online photo gallery. This gallery can manage photos in categories or by tags, have functionality to crop/resize/rotate/cover frame and other image manipulation.

CaLi2CoPi is a multiplatform PDF parser library programmed in PostScript. Works with several specialized switch in order to verify, add, extract or change any PDF content. Also supports online execution on web based user interface via Ghostscript.

Halftoning library and repository

Generates any PDF/TXT report without any headaches with a new geneartion report rendering engine. Merging two XML files (report layout XML, data XML) by this tool to give you any reports you want.

Software for Internet photo printing services. Originally it should be used to get the prints, but might be used for photo sharing. Use Java Tomcat web server.