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HDR

pfstools – command-line graphics tools

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

pfstools are CLI and GUI programs for reading, writing, manipulating and viewing high-dynamic range (HDR) images and video frames.

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Synthesizers

FluidSynth – a SoundFont synthesizer

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

FluidSynth is a console based real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

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Emacs Software

JOVE – Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

JOVE (Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs) is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems.

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Emacs Software

ce – Chet’s Editor – small, fast, Emacs-like text editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ce is a customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor similar to the GNU version of Emacs.

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Emacs Software

mg – Micro Emacs derivative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mg is a Micro Emacs derivative. It’s a portable version of mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.

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Emacs Software

Remacs – community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs to Rust. Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Emacs Software

JOE – Joe’s Own Editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

JOE or Joe’s Own Editor is a full-featured ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems.

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Emacs Software

Zile – small Emacs alternative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Zile Is Lossy Emacs (Zile) is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Images

jpegoptim – optimize JPEG files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

jpegoptim is a utility to optimize jpeg files. Both lossless and lossy optimization are available from this free and open source tool.

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Images

oxipng – multithreaded PNG optimizer

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Oxipng is a multithreaded lossless PNG compression optimizer (CLI and library).

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Images

pngcrush – optimizer for PNG files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Pngcrush is a free and open source optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It is a command-line tool.

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Images

zopflipng – PNG optimisation tool using zopfli

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression.

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Images

OptiPNG – advanced PNG optimizer

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

OptiPNG optimizes PNG files, i.e. reduce their size to a minimum, without losing semantic information.

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Images

pngquant – command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.

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Images

Lepton – image compression tool and file format

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Lepton is a tool and file format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

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Images

MozJPEG – Mozilla JPEG Encoder Project

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

MozJPEG improves JPEG compression efficiency achieving higher visual quality and smaller file sizes at the same time.

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Images

Guetzli – perceptual JPEG encoder

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Guetzli is a JPEG encoder that aims for excellent compression density at high visual quality.

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Hex Editor

hyx – minimalistic hex editor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

hyx is a minimalistic but powerful hex editor. It’s written in less than 2,300 lines of C.

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Hex Editor

hexyl – colored command-line hex viewer

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal with colored output.

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Hex Editor

ImHex – hex editor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, GUI

ImHex is a hex editor. It can display, decode and analyze binary data to reverse engineer their format, extract information or patch values. There’s also a CLI.

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