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Standard interchange image format for Open Source DTP

Hi people,

with all the mayor GUI #DTP software reaching their peak: #GIMP, #Scribus and #Inkscape; and the well established #TeX software #ConTeXt and #SpeedataPublisher, and #ImageMagick we need a serious discussion about which image format we should adopt that works seamlessly across all these applications and it is generally accepted in the press workflow, whereas is embedded or not into a PDF file.

It should be something that has good quality, supports #CMYK and Alpha channels and it is #opensource friendly and perhaps an #openstandard.

I would dare to say that perhaps jpeg2000 matches most of them, it exists from a very long time and can be adopted as common ground, however it is need a combined effort, if what I am writing makes sense for you.

ImageMagick supports it, Gimp 3 currently doesn't, #LuaTeX and #LuaMetaTeX neither. I guess that Inkscape once it will be able to export in CMYK it will decide which format using to store images in CMYK with alpha into a PDF.

It would be very beneficial if we can adopt a format that works everywhere and it is press friendly, thanks.

@DNA_FILMPROJECT

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let's keep on moving on :D

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i would rather feel compressed ..

ImageMagick: delegate library support not built-in #2404 #imagemagick

https://askubuntu.com/q/1544148/612

I just came across this question I asked 13 years ago about pixelating images using the command line

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8422/how-can-i-pixelate-an-image-via-the-command-line-on-linux

That method of downscaling then upscaling to produce pixelation was acceptable at the time but the problem is that you couldn't easily specify the size of the "big pixels"

Searching again in 2025 and it looks like ffmpeg has had a pixelation filter since 2022 and can be used like this:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf pixelize=40:40 output.mp4

So now I'm using ffmpeg, a video editor, to pixelate images.

It's so funny to see how

find . -name "*.jpg" -exec mogrify -format png {} \;

"unchungifies" 10MB of 100% Quality "lossy" JPEG into 50MB of 100% Quality "lossless" PNG...

Aint it supposed to be the other way around?!
#linux #imagemagick

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How to make income online with 2D/3D animations.

Step 1. Ask #Huggingchat to generate your script
Step 2. Make a storyboard in #krita
Step 3. Edit your assests in #Krita #GIMP #ImageMagick
Step 4. Create your animation in #blender #OpenSCAD #freecad #Friction #synfig #pencil2d #Glaxnimate #FFmpeg
Step 5. Put it all together in #kdenlive #shotcut #flowblade #natron
Step 6. Upload your video to #odysee
Step 7. Promote your content on #mastodon #peertube #pixelfed #xmpp #matrix #irc

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once again I would like to ask you for forgiveness for my uncontrollement, but nobody should be able to say that we have no freedom of expression here!

Does any #imagemagick wizard out here know how to explain what `+channel` does? How it's useful? I tried to wrap my head around the documentation multiple times, an I still can't catch the meaning.

.. early morning philosophical theory in front of an emptied bowl ..