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Python plug-ins for Adobe Products available

Chris Ryland cpr at emsoftware.com
Sun Jul 30 11:35:12 EDT 2000 
I think Adobe should be greatly applauded for releasing Python APIs for
their products, making them much more accessible to the serious hackers,
rather than chastised for having proprietary software.

The overlap between people who could contribute to one of the free software
projects and the people who use Adobe graphics products for a living is
probably nil.
--
Cheers!
/ Chris Ryland, President / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com
"Edward Jason Riedy" <ejr at lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in message
news:8m06l3$8s4$1 at agate.berkeley.edu...
> And Grant Munsey writes:
>  - Adobe has opened an open source site at http://opensource.adobe.com.
> [...]
>  - The Adobe Open Source license is reasonably liberal.
>
> While I'll grant that this is a good first step for Adobe, these
> are simply add-ons for proprietary software.  The add-ons are
> often available under moderate licenses.
>
> Meanwhile, there are existing free software projects that could
> use help.
>
> The Gimp + Gimp-Python (instead of Photoshop):
>   http://www.gimp.org/
>   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygimp/
>
> Sketch, which is implemented in Python (instead of Illustrator):
>   http://sketch.sourceforge.net/
>
> I'm not familiar with ``After Effects,'' but the description sounds
> like an extension of Broadcast2000:
>   http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.html
> AFAIK, there's no Python associated with that project.  Perhaps there
> should be.  Integration with things like VTk (www.kitware.com) would
> be nice.  VTk has a Python binding, but not a very nice one.
>
> Jason
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