Open Source Linux Drawing Software
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View 7 business solutionsBrowse free open source Drawing software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Drawing software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Tux Paint
An award-winning drawing program for children of all ages
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others. -
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Dia Diagram Editor
Free drawing software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Dia Diagram Editor is free Open Source drawing software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Dia supports more than 30 different diagram types like flowcharts, network diagrams, database models. More than a thousand readymade objects help to draw professional diagrams. Dia can read and write a number of different raster and vector image formats. Software developers and database specialists can use Dia as a CASE tool to generate code skeletons from their drawings. Dia can be scripted and extended using Python. -
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Excalidraw
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Excalidraw, the virtual whiteboard app for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams, has come a long way. With the remote work becoming the status quo, Excalidraw was able to show its true potential and we’ve come to a point where over 100K people have used it just the last month! While it has been extremely successful as a free open source project, the biggest source of complaints nowadays is around adoption within companies: How do you share diagrams with your co-workers easily? Can your company depend on the service for live collaboration? Is your data secure? We’ve thought long and hard about how to make it happen in a volunteer-based open source model but haven’t found a great solution. So we decided to build a company around Excalidraw with the first product being Excalidraw+. With account-based access you can rest assured only the right people will have access to your data, while still retain the ability to share specific drawings with outside collaborators. -
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Pencil
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free tool
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. The latest stable version of Pencil is 3.1.0 which contains stability fixes and many new features. More details can befound in the releaste notes. Pencil provides various built-in shapes collection for drawing different types of user interface ranging from desktop to mobile platforms. Starting from 2.0.2, Pencil is shipped with Android and iOS UI stencils pre-installed. This makes it even easier to start protyping apps with a simple installation. Starting from 2.0.2 Pencil has even more shape collections included by default. The list of built-in collections now includes general-purpose shapes, flowchart elements, desktop/web UI shapes, Android and iOS GUI shapes. -
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LaTeXDraw
Vector drawing program for LaTeX using PSTricks
LaTeXDraw is a graphical drawing editor for LaTeX. LaTeXDraw can be used to 1) generate PSTricks code; 2) directly create PDF or PS pictures. -
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TreeForm Syntax Tree Drawing Software
Syntax Tree Drawing Software (Linguistics)
TreeForm Syntax tree drawing software is a Linguistic Syntax/Semantics tree drawing editor. Designed for graphical n-ary tree drawing. Mac users can install the software through the new package, but must give authority through "System Preferences" > "Security & Privacy". Windows and Linux users can run the software through the JAR file directly. All users must have Java 8 or higher installed. https://java.com/en/download/ -
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Signature Pad
HTML5 canvas based smooth signature drawing
Signature Pad is a JavaScript library for drawing smooth signatures. It's HTML5 canvas based and uses variable width Bézier curve interpolation based on Smoother Signatures post by Square. It works in all modern desktop and mobile browsers and doesn't depend on any external libraries. Demo works in desktop and mobile browsers. You can check out its source code for some tips on how to handle window resize and high DPI screens. You can also find more about the latter in HTML5 Rocks tutorial. This library is provided as UMD (Universal Module Definition) and ES6 module. When you modify width or height of a canvas, it will be automatically cleared by the browser. SignaturePad doesn't know about it by itself, so you can call signaturePad.clear() to make sure that signaturePad.isEmpty() returns correct value in this case. -
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PureCSS Francine
HTML/CSS drawing in the style of an 18th-century oil painting
purecss-francine is a remarkable artistic and technical project created by Cyan Harlow, demonstrating how complex digital illustrations can be achieved using only HTML and CSS, without any JavaScript or images. The artwork, titled Francine, is a detailed portrait crafted purely through CSS shapes, gradients, and layering techniques. It showcases the expressive potential of front-end technologies and serves as both an educational example and a piece of digital art. The project emphasizes precision, creativity, and the boundaries of what is possible within web standards. Every visual element—from facial features to textures—is rendered using handcrafted CSS properties, illustrating advanced concepts in styling and layout manipulation. As a result, purecss-francine stands as a powerful example of CSS mastery, inspiring developers and designers to explore the artistic capabilities of code. -
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FidoCadJ
Simple and intuitive 2D vector drawing for electronics and not only.
A multiplatform vector drawing program with a complete library of electronic symbols. Schematics and drawings are stored in a very compact text format. There is no netlist concept behind the drawings (so no simulation, and this is a choice) but this allows a great graphical flexibility and ease of use, making FidoCadJ the perfect tool for exchange sketches in forum and newsgroup discussions with a few clicks. Drawings can be exported in several graphic formats, such as pdf. Follow the development live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davbucci -
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AutoREALM
Vector based drawing software designed for RPGs
AutoREALM is a free role-playing game mapping program originally made by Andrew Gryc. This program is an excellent mapping program that can design castles, caves, cities, dungeons and more. New developers are more than welcome! Previously, development were using Delphi language. Some attempts to rewrite it in other languages were done, but currently (since January 2012) there is an attempt or rewrite using those technologies: _ C++11 _ wxWidgets 2.9 (will be 3.0 when it will be released) _ openGL _ pluma framework (a fixed version located on bitbucket) The design of the actual C++ code-base primarily targets clean source code and high modularity of source code, to allow easy reuse of the code and fast learning for people who might join the effort. Current development is located on https://bitbucket.org/bmorel/autorealm . Howerver, older repositories are still here in case someone would like to consult them, and to allow easy access to algorithms they might contain. -
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UCanCode Visio 2023
UCanCode Visio 2023, the best replace of Microsoft Visio
UCCVisio makes it easy to create various types of diagrams, including flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, family tree diagrams, business model diagrams, flyers, certificates, and more. Charts - Charts and graphs are visual representations of information. They are useful for documenting facts, drawing plans and capturing ideas, as well as enhancing communication, learning and productivity. UCCVisio is a set of 100% free drawing software provided by UCanCode software company! -
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boats
a race scenario drawing tool
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Simple Draw
A canvas you can draw on with different colors
Enjoy the moment with our specially designed drawing app, draw something fun, and create your own artwork– all in a digital form. Simple Draw is the best drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Just pick paint and draw. Paint and draw simple sketches for fun. With Simple Draw, you will not need any fancy or advanced tools or filters for your favorite doodle or sketch. Just use your creativity and freehand drawing to create the best sketches for your sketchbook. No matter what age or abilities you have, the best drawing app offers a fun drawing experience! Draw a sketch, use your favorite paint, and save your artwork in your own sketchbook. With Simple Draw, you can either draw new sketches from scratch or open some old artwork files from your sketchbook and just play around with new paints and colors. -
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TeXCAD
A simple LaTeX {picture} drawing tool
TeXCAD is a program for drawing or retouching {picture}s in LaTeX. It extends the original {picture} capabilities, even without any obligatory LaTeX package, class or style sheet. Core of TeXCAD is totally portable. A MS Windows version is available. More information on... https://texcad.sourceforge.io/ Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/texcad Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/texcad -
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CompassCAD
very good CAD software
CompassCAD is a simple, light, yet minimalist 2D-only CAD software. It lowers the barriers for novice CAD users to learn about CAD and sketch their very own design from scratch, and ensures everyone can try CAD. If applicable, it could also be used as a professional software with features such as collaboration (up to 2 persons, more will be added later on), SVG exporting, ready to be printed and shared with your co-workers. CompassCAD has a very small project size bundled in a single file, so your file is ready for distribution without breaking any of your favorite messaging app's file limit. -
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'Yet Another Paint' is a cross-platform drawing program written in Java.
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Skencil is a vector drawing program. It's written almost completely in python for flexibilty with some modules written in C for speed.
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dktools - Dirk Krauses tools
Drawing, graphics conversion, software development, administration.
GUI and command line tools for advanced users and administrators: wxdkdraw - Minimalistic drawing application for use with LaTeX, wxd2lat - Convert wxdkdraw files to LaTeX, bitmap2pp - Convert PNG/JPEG/TIFF/NetPBM to (E)PS or PDF, fig2lat - Convert XFig files to LaTeX, htmlbook - publish HTML like a book, dkcpre - C debugging and tracing preprocessor, itadmin - manage your IT using a MySQL/MariaDB database, dk-fic - file integrity checker, dk-ls - list files, output column order is configurable, dk-cat, dk-sort, dk-lines - text tools for *x and Windows, dk-send, dk-recv - transmit data stream, dk-t2h, dk-t2l - text to HTML or LaTeX conversion. -
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A UNIX/X11 circuit drawing application with schematic capture. Features user-definable parts libraries and fully hierarchical SPICE netlist generation.
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DrawGlycan-SNFG
Renders glycans and glycopeptides with frag. info using SNFG format
DrawGlycan-SNFG is a simple and robust drawing tool for displaying glycans and glycopeptides from IUPAC-condensed format text inputs. It also supports the depiction of glycan and glycopeptide fragmentation. The program is available in the form of web (link below) and standalone GUI applications. Program source code is also provided.. The web and GUI apps do not require any additional software to run. To install the GUI version, simply download and run the installer for PC or Mac. To install in Linux, follow in-package instructions or visit the VirtualGlycome.org FAQ page. The source code can be edited and run using MATLAB2014b or later. How to Cite: DrawGlycan-SNFG: a robust tool to render glycans and glycopeptides with fragmentation information Kai Cheng; Yusen Zhou; Sriram Neelamegham Glycobiology (2017) 27 (3): 200-205 Source code also available at: https://github.com/neel-lab/DrawGlycan-SNFGv2 Abstract & Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cww115 -
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ORIPA S
A drawer for origami crease pattern
ORIPA S is a drawing tool specifically designed for a origami crease pattern. It is derived from ORIPA which is developed by MITANI Jun. New features by ORIPA S are: - save current crease pattern as a image file (jpeg, png) not only original project file. - while pasting, select a point on pattern to be matched against destination point. - Some considerable bugs are fixed (i.e., wrong undo behavior on ORIPA v0.35). This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. -
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Pencil2D
Pencil2D is a cross-platform animation/drawing application.
Pencil2D is an animation/drawing application for OSX, Windows and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animations (cartoons) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
