2.0
for
Linux
Artstream now runs on the Intel family of processors and, for the first time, brings professional illustration and page layout to the Linux environment. Artstream, working with raster editors such as Gimp and printer/scanner managers such as those from Vividata, ESP and Caldera, now completes the suite of tools for Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing on Linux. All the functionality provided in Artstream for Irix is supported. Artstream's full featured illustration tools, with Artstream innovations such as VectorPaint®, ShadeGuides® and DynaLenses, along with photo placement, masks, precision typography, multi-page story flow and more are all included. With only some cosmetic differences with the Irix desktop, Artstream for Linux is a complete workalike to Artstream for Irix, and obtains comparable performance benefits from OpenGL® acceleration hardware from SGI and other SGI conformant OpenGL vendors. Those already familiar with the Irix version, and those maintaining both environments, will find transitioning easy.
The initial release is based on RedHat 6.0 or later, and runs on any Pentium class CPU with at least a 233Mhz clock, and 64MB of memory. Any graphics card is supported without acceleration using the free Mesa 3D Graphics Library, an API very similar to the OpenGL API. The latest distribution of Mesa 3D can be found at http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net. Substantial acceleration is available using a hardware optimized OpenGL driver. SGI, in conjunction with VA Linux and Nvidia has now released OpenGL acceleration hardware. SGI conformant accelerated OpenGL drivers are now shipping from XiGraphics, with a broad selection of supported graphics cards. Additionally, Metro Link currently provides a SGI conformant OpenGL driver without acceleration for a broad range of supported graphics cards, and has announced plans for accelerated support of some graphics cards. A survey of current and planned accelerated OpenGL implementations can be found at www.linux3d.org.
Downoad the free demo version of Artstream.
Artstream Linux News
May 14, 2001
Best
of Linux Winner.
Check out Dave Central's
very thorough survey of Linux applications.
July 18, 2000
French readers - See
another article by André Pascual describing some uses of Artstream's DynaLenses,
at http://www.linuxgraphic.org/section2d/articles/transparent/index.html
May 27, 2000
French readers - See
André Pascual's article on vector graphics with Artstream, "Quand le vectoriel
imite le bitmap", (en Français), at http://www.linuxgraphic.org/section2d/articles/artstream/artstream_01.html.
Feb 2 - 4, 2000
LinuxWorld Expo
See Artstream-Linux
at the IDG LinuxWorld Expo, in the VA
Linux exhibit at the Jacob Javits Convention Center NY, Feb 2-4 2000.
See coverage of the
event in the Graphics-Muse
article. (See Howard and Josh's grinning melons).
Nov 17, 1999
Artstream 2.0 for
Linux is released for beta-testing.
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