Free various formats software for linux

Apache XML Graphics Commons project is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP.
Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO. You will find components such as a PDF library, an RTF library, Graphics2D implementations that let you generate PDF & PostScript files, and much more.
Apache XML Graphics Commons has only just begun. Its in the process of being populated with components coming from Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Stay tuned for exciting treasures made available.
In the Wiki, we have a plan for building Apache XML Graphics Commons. The plan provides an idea of what you can expect to find here when were finished migrating components.
Main features:
- Image codecs for PNG and TIFF
- Bitmap image writer abstraction with implementation for the above codecs and for the Image I/O API.
- Java2D helper classes
- Graphics2D implementation that produces PostScript and EPS
- Helper classes for PostScript code production
- XMP metadata framework
- Various I/O classes, encoders and decoders for various formats
Enhancements:
- The ImageWriter abstraction now supports the writing of multi-page formats like TIFF.
- This uses the Image I/O API. A default implementation was provided for AbstractGraphics2D.drawText(ACI, float, float) so that PSGraphics2D supports painting of text using the AttributedCharacterIterator.
- Various fixes and improvements were made in the ImageWriter abstraction.
- A problem where the generation of the PostScript setdash command was assuming that only integer values can be used was fixed.

Regression mAKEr project is a simple modular application for data investigation.

This is an application to help user (mathematician) to make regression between series of data, draw grpahics, and export them into various formats by means of common graphics packages (i.e., gnuplot, plotutils). It is written in Python.

The user interfeace is built upon the wxPython (wxWindows) widget set.

The idea of usage is as follows: the user builds a project which is represented as a tree of modules; modules can generate data variables, as well as consume them. Essentialy, such a tree represents an algorithm of data analysis.

The system is intended to educate students.

Arson is a KDE frontend to various CD burning, and ripping tools. Arson project was originally begun to burn audio CDs because i could find no other frontends which used cdrdao (in disk at once mode), which could decode various encoded audio formats (mp3, ogg), and displayed accurate track length as the playlist was created. But as usual once the initial plans were implemented I just kept going...
Arson has expanded to be a CD ripper (with many output formats), a VCD/Music/Data burner, a CD copier, a device unlocker, and a CDRW blanker. And thats in the current version!
Main features:
- Full progress displayed for all lengthy operations
- Drag and drop from Konqueror to create play lists
- Audio CD Burning
Accurate track length tally displayed as track list grows
Can burn using cdrdao or cdrecord (in Disk at Once, or Track at Once)
Supports various audio file types, currently:
- Wav
- Mp3 (decode using either mpg123 or LAME)
- Ogg Vorbis (optional)
- SHN
- FLAC (optional)
Can optionally normalize (in batch or mix mode) all tracks before burning to even out volumes
Supports sox to fix broken audio tracks (tracks not in 44100Khz, 16bit, stereo)
Can open, and optionally verify MD5 disk sets
Can load track lists from m3u files
Supports editing and burning CD-Text info with cdrdao
- VCD Burning
Can create and burn VCDs and SVCDs
- Data CD Burning
Existing ISO, and CUE/BIN files
Image creation/burning from single directory tree
Complete filesystem creation
ISO images burned with either cdrdao or cdrecord
- Audio CD ripping/encoding (rip tracks from CD to file)
Can rip audio tracks using cdda2wav OR cdparanoia
Encoding in various output file formats, currently:
- Wav
- Mp3 (bladeenc, and LAME supported)
- Ogg Vorbis (optional)
- FLAC (optional)
- AU
- CDR
- AIFF
- AIFC
CdIndex support (a free CDDB-like service)
HTTP retrieval
Freedb support (a free, open CDDB service)
HTTP, and local retrieval
HTTP, and local submit
CD-Text retrieval
Supports generic SCSI and cooked IOCTL interfaces
Auto tagging of MP3 files using id3v2
Configurable audio quality presets (bitrate, channels, etc)
- CD-to-CD copying
Direct copy
CD-to-file-to-CD copying
Using either readcd/cdrecord or cdrdao
- Data CD ripping
Rip to ISO file with readcd
Rip to CUE/BIN files with cdrdao
- Multisession burning
- Device unlock/reset
- CDRW Blanking
Whats New in 0.9.8 Beta2 Release:
- Fixed bug #829892 - Icon installation broken
- Fixed bug #815006 - Incorrect Freedb Choices. User is now presented with a choice if multiple albums returned
- Fixed bug #826786 - Arson crashes when D&Ding a directory
- Started removal of KDE2 dependancies, including configure.in.in, etc
- Fixed bug with rerunning of configure from a fresh CVS install

PROMPT is a system for retrieval, analysis, mapping and comparison of protein sets. It allows easy mapping of different types of sequence identifiers, automatic data retrieval and integration, many analysis and comparison algorithms, and a full-featured GUI application.

Exhaustive statistical tests are conducted automatically in appropriate cases, but can be performed manually. All analysis results can be viewed or visualized and exported in various formats.

All methods can be used in your own Java code or with beanshell scripting in your own scripts, a pipeline, or grid systems.

FAPG is a tool to generate list of audio files (WAV, MP3, Ogg, etc.) in various formats (M3U, PLS, HTML, etc). It is very useful for quickly creating a playlist of a large number of audio files.

It is coded in C to be as fast as possible, and does not use any specific audio library (like ID3Lib).
This allow you to deploy it faster and easier, and to have better performances since the less informations are loaded.
In the other hand, this tool is not (yet) compatible with all the known formats.

Here are some examples for usage :

Generate a PLS playlist for an album :
fapg --format=pls --output=~/path/to/album/list.pls ~/path/to/album

You have a file server using Samba which shares a large amount of audio files for Windows powered computers using Winamp.
The directory on the server containing the files is "/samba/mp3" and is visible on the Windows network as "serveurmp3" :
fapg --backslash --output=/samba/mp3/list.m3u --prefix=servermp3 --recursive --windows /samba/mp3

An HTML playlist for an album :
fapg --output=fapg.html ~/path/to/album
Here is the result : fapg.html

Rawstudio is an open source raw-image converter written in GTK+.
Rawstudio can read and convert RAW-images from many different cameras, including Nikon and Canon. It uses dcraw.
Main features:
- Reads all dcraw supported formats
- Internal 16bit rgb
- Various post-shot controls (white balance, saturation and exposure compensation among others)
- Realtime histogram