Jubler subtitle editor in Java.

Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features.

If you have a movie in a language that you do not know, you can change the subtitle it with this software. 
advantages of this application compared to similar applications subtitle maker, follows a little description of this application :

besides you can make a subtitle with this application, you could use the facility is a distinguished translator already available within the application, for example For those who are hard pressed to find either subtitled or Indonesian Bahasa language can use this application. such as the subtitle you're looking at Subscene.com but that there is subtitled Mandarin or Arabic language. you can use this application to translate it into Bahasa Indonesian Bahasa as well, but you must be connected to the Internet because it uses Google Translate to translate automatically that are already in this application.
then you can improve yourself every sentence with the words you think appropriate. In addition, you also can improve the timing, cutting the subtitle, and many features which are available on this application. 


Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features.


Requirements.

• Latest version of JRE
• MPlayer to view subtitles
• ASpell to spell-check the subtitles

 
It is open source under a liberal (GNU) public licence. It is written in Java 5.0  (a.k.a. Java 1.5.0) in order to be really multi-platform. It has been tested under Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X.

General features

• It supports Advanced SubStation, SubStation Alpha, SubRip.  SubViewer (1 and 2), MicroDVD, MPL2 and Spruce DVD Maestro file formats, although it is easy  to extend it to support other file types.
  
• All encodings supported by Java platform are also supported here  (like UTF-8). The user is able to select a list of preferred  encodings in order to load the localized subtitle files.
  
• GUI internationalization support through gettext utilities.
  
• Styles are supported (when saving in SubStation formats). These  styles are specific per subtitle or per character.
  
• Translating mode (parent & child editors) is supported
  
• Graphical preview of the subtitles using the FFMPEG library.  Current frame, waveform preview and waveform listening is supported.
  
• Graphically display of subtitles, which can be moved and resized.
  
• Test and play the subtitles file using a video player (mplayer). While in  playing mode the user is able to freely edit the subtitles (and  inform the player for this change), add a new subtitle in real  time or synchronize subtitles with the movie
  
• Mark subtitles with different colors, either when editing or real  time when playing the video
  
• Spell checking, with support for dictionary selection
  
• Easy installation for Mac, Linux & Windows platforms and a generic  installer for all other platforms (without FFMPEG support)
  
• Auto update feature
  

    Key editing features:

• Editing individual subtitles
  
• Splitting
  
• Joining
  
• Time shifting
  
• Frame rate conversion automatically, by user request or using a  free user factor
  
• Fixing time inconsistencies such as overlapping with an  optimization algorithm
  
• Undo & redo
  
• Cut, copy, paste, delete areas according to time & color patterns
  
• Clear areas used for hearing impaired

Screenshots.

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Automatically Install Security Updates and Patches in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

This article describes how to enable Ubuntu to automatically install security patches and updates without confirmation. For most Windows users, critical updates are automatically installed on their computers to fix security vulnerabilities. 

After the installation, they’re then alerted to restart their computers so the patches can be applied. Ubuntu can also be configured that way. 

Setting started:

To get started, click ‘Power –> System Settings’

Then select ‘System –> Update Manager’

Next, click ‘Settings’

And finally, choose ‘Install security updates without confirmation’ and close out.

Updates:

Library for Gnome Panel applets (GObject Introspection):

This library is used by GNOME Panel applets.


  * debian/patches/92_git_calendar_day.patch:
    - gtk_calendar_get_date returns the month between 0 and 11, so add +1
      to the month being passed to Evolution (LP: #760523)
  * debian/patches/92_git_fix_applets_in_multiscreen.patch:
    - Add upstream patch to fix addition of applets in multiscreen (LP: #774427)


Launcher and Docking facility for Gnome:


The GNOME Panel is an essential part of the GNOME Desktop, providing toolbar-like “panels” which can be attached to the sides of your desktop. They are used to launch applications and embed a number of other functions, such as quick launch icons, the clock, the notification area, volume controls and the battery charge indicator, and utilities ranging from weather forecast to system monitoring.

  * debian/patches/92_git_calendar_day.patch:
    - gtk_calendar_get_date returns the month between 0 and 11, so add +1
      to the month being passed to Evolution (LP: #760523)
  * debian/patches/92_git_fix_applets_in_multiscreen.patch:
    - Add upstream patch to fix addition of applets in multiscreen (LP: #774427)


Launcher and Docking facility for Gnome (bonomo compatibility):

 The GNOME Panel is an essential part of the GNOME Desktop, providing toolbar-like “panels” which can be attached to the sides of your desktop. They are used to launch applications and embed a number of other functions, such as quick launch icons, the clock, the notification area, volume controls and the battery charge indicator, and utilities ranging from weather forecast to system monitoring.

This package provides the compatibility loader for bonobo applets use


  * debian/patches/92_git_calendar_day.patch:
    - gtk_calendar_get_date returns the month between 0 and 11, so add +1
      to the month being passed to Evolution (LP: #760523)
  * debian/patches/92_git_fix_applets_in_multiscreen.patch:
    - Add upstream patch to fix addition of applets in multiscreen (LP: #774427)
 
Common Files for the Gnome Panel:

This package includes some files that are needed by the GNOME Panel (Pixmaps, .desktop files and internationalization files).


  * debian/patches/92_git_calendar_day.patch:
    - gtk_calendar_get_date returns the month between 0 and 11, so add +1
      to the month being passed to Evolution (LP: #760523)
  * debian/patches/92_git_fix_applets_in_multiscreen.patch:
    - Add upstream patch to fix addition of applets in multiscreen (LP: #774427)

PulseAudio Client Libraries (zeroconf support):


PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
Client libraries used by applications that access a PulseAudio sound server via PulseAudio's native interface.

This package adds support for zeroconf (aka. Avahi, mdns) discovery of PulseAudio sinks and sources by client applications.


  * Fix missing Internal/Front/Rear mics on Nvidia chipsets (LP: #771739)


PulseAudio Client Libraries (Glib support):


PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
Client libraries used by applications that access a PulseAudio sound server via PulseAudio's native interface.

This package adds support for glib2 client applications.


PulseAudio Sound Server:

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
These are some of PulseAudio's features:
* High quality software mixing of multiple audio streams with support for
more than one sink/source. May be used to combine multiple sound cards
into one (with sample rate adjustment).
* Wide range of supported client libraries. ESD, ALSA, oss, libao and
GStreamer client applications are supported as-is. Native PulseAudio
plug-ins are also available for xmms and mplayer.
* Good low latency behaviour and very accurate latency measurement for
playback and recording. Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback
streams.
* Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record
audio on a different machine than the one it is running on.
* Extensible plug-in architecture with plug-ins for jackd, multicast-rtp
lirc and avahi, just to name a few. This package contains the daemon and basic module set.



  * Fix missing Internal/Front/Rear mics on Nvidia chipsets (LP: #771739)


Bluetooh module for PulseAudio Sound Server:


PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
This module enables PulseAudio to work with bluetooth devices, like headset or audio gateway.
The module is called module-bluetooth

1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3
1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3.1

  * Fix missing Internal/Front/Rear mics on Nvidia chipsets (LP: #771739)

Utility for browsing, installing and removing applications:


The Ubuntu Software Center lets you browse and install thousands of applications available for Ubuntu. You can view available applications by category, or search quickly by name or description. You can also examine the applications already installed, and remove those you no longer need.

To install or remove software using the Center, you need administrator access on the computer.


Version 4.0.1:

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * debian/control:
    - point to 4.0 bzr branch
  * merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/Bug635994, many thanks
    (LP: #635994)
  * utils/submit_review.py:
    - fix missing translation  (LP: #770439)
  * utils/submit_review.py:
    - improve logging on SSO failure (LP: #773214)
    - do not translate "appname" as ubuntu-sso-login will fail
      for translated names with utf8 chars (LP: #773214)
  * softwarecenter/db/reviews.py:
    - apply review sorting (LP: #773289)
  * softwarecenter/app.py:
    - do not translate "appname" as ubuntu-sso-login will fail
      for translated names with utf8 chars (LP: #773214)
 
  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/translation-fixes-lp770439:
    - fix translation not showing up (LP: #770439)
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py,
    softwarecenter/view/widgets/reviews.py,
    test/test_appdetails_view.py:
    - enable writing a review immediately after the package
      installation is complete, add test case (LP: #769439)

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Sam2p convert raster (bitmap) images to PostScript, PDF and other formats.

sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several other formats.

The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression filters even on Level1 devices.

The author of sam2p recommends his program over other image image converts because of the following reasons:

•     sam2p produces much smaller output

    sam2p gives the user complete control over the data layout of the output image, including Compression, SampleFormat and TransferEncoding    sam2p is fast    sam2p doesn't depend on external libraries. (But it depends on external programs for _reading_ JPEG, TIFF and PNG files. These programs are provided as additional, separate packages, available from download from the sam2p web site.)

•     sam2p supports the mainstream image formats of today without compromise. sam2p has many file format fine-tuning features that are missing from most other converter utilities. For example: TIFF ZIP compression, TIFF LZW compression, TIFF JPEG compression, transparent PNG files, BMP RLE-4 and RLE-8 compression etc.

    sam2p can create EPS and PDF images with transparency

•     sam2p supports all levels (versions) of the PostScript language, and output images have the smallest file size allowed by the LanguageLevel.

    PostScript ZIP, RLE and LZW compression is provided for _all_ LanguageLevels (!), even for PSL1 appeared in 1985. You can print your ZIP-compressed images onto your ancient printer of the 1980s.    sam2p supports all versions of PDF, and output images have the smallest file size allowed by the version.    output images of sam2p are always compliant to the standard selected by the user

•     output images of sam2p are real-world compatible, i.e the author has tested them with many common image processing programs, for example: Ghostscript, pdfTeX, xpdf, Acrobat Reader, The GIMP, ImageMagick, xv, Acrobat Distiller, QuarkXPress, InDesign. The author has also tested PostScript files on HP and OkiData printers.

    sam2p converts every pixel faithfully, preserving all the 24 RGB bits intact. There is no quality or information loss unless you ask for it.

•     sam2p uses only a minimal number of libraries. You don't have to install 33Mb of ballast software to use sam2p. Image libraries (libtiff etc.) are _not_ used, the math library is not used, libstdc++ is not used, zlib is not used.

The author of sam2p recommends his program over ImageMagick:

•     sam2p produces much smaller output. A speed increase of a factor of 100 (10000%) in file size can be achieved in extreme circumstances.

•     sam2p gives the user complete control over the data layout of the output image, including Compression, SampleFormat and TransferEncoding. ImageMagick provides only a single -compress option, which is often ignored or not used at full capability provided by the file format.

•     sam2p is fast, often 10 times faster than ImageMagick

•     sam2p doesn't depend on external libraries. You don't have to waste effort for installing zillions of libraries (with versions possibly incompatible with your libc or system) just to convert a GIF file to EPS. You don't have to install 33Mb of ballast software to use sam2p. Image libraries (libtiff etc.) are _not_ used, the math library is not used, libstdc++ is not used, zlib is not used. As a contrast, ImageMagick needs liblcms, libtiff, libfreetype, libjpeg, libpng, libwmflite, X11, libbz2, libxml2, zlib and libpthread.

•     sam2p supports the mainstream image formats of today without compromise. sam2p has many file format fine-tuning features that are missing from most other converter utilities. For example: TIFF ZIP compression, TIFF LZW compression, TIFF JPEG compression, transparent PNG files, BMP RLE-4 and RLE-8 compression etc. ImageMagick lacks much of these capabilities. However, sam2p cannot do visible transformations on the image -- use ImageMagick to these transformations, and convert its output with sam2p.

•     sam2p can create EPS and PDF images with transparency, ImageMagick cannot.

•     sam2p supports all levels (versions) of the PostScript language, and output images have the smallest file size allowed by the LanguageLevel. ImageMagick creates incompliant, incompatible and very large EPS files.

•     PostScript ZIP, RLE and LZW compression is provided for _all_ LanguageLevels (!), even for PSL1 appeared in 1985. You can print your ZIP-compressed images onto your ancient printer of the 1980s. ImageMagick provides compression only for PSL2 and PSL3.

•     sam2p supports all versions of PDF, and output images have the smallest file size allowed by the version. ImageMagick cannot even create PDF files.

•     output images of sam2p are always compliant to the standard selected by the user. ImageMagick sometimes puts the Adobes DSC comments wrong, so the output EPS file is not suitable for embedding.

•     output images of sam2p are real-world compatible, i.e the author has tested them with many common image processing programs, for example: Ghostscript, pdfTeX, xpdf, Acrobat Reader, The GIMP, ImageMagick, xv, Acrobat Distiller, QuarkXPress, InDesign. The author has also tested PostScript files on HP and OkiData printers. The subjective opinion of the author is that images created by sam2p are generally more compatible than those created by ImageMagick.

•     sam2p converts every pixel faithfully, preserving all the 24 RGB bits intact. There is no quality or information loss unless you ask for it. ImageMagick sometimes downsamples a 24 bit image to a 256-color palette, without displaying any warnings.

Long-term limitations:

    only DeviceRGB color space, with the Indexed, Gray and RGB image types
    Indexed images can have 0..256 colors
    alpha channel and transparency supported only for Indexed images: only one color may be transparent

Download.

Sam2p on Google Code.

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PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots.

PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots. To help accomplish that task it is organized as a core C library, language bindings for that library, and device drivers which control how the plots are presented in non-interactive and interactive plotting contexts.

The PLplot core library can be used to create standard x-y plots, semi-log plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single page, and multiple pages are allowed for those device formats that support them.

PLplot has core support for Unicode. This means for our many Unicode-aware devices that plots can be labelled using the enormous selection of Unicode mathematical symbols. A large subset of our Unicode-aware devices also support complex text layout (CTL) languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Indic and Indic-derived CTL scripts such as Devanagari, Thai, Lao, and Tibetan.

A number of compiled and interpreted languages have access to PLplot, see our list of language bindings.

PLplot device drivers support a number of different file formats for non-interactive plotting and a number of different platforms that are suitable for interactive plotting. It is easy to add new device drivers to PLplot by writing a small number of device dependent routines.

PLplot is free software primarily licensed under the LGPL.
Cross Platform

PLplot is currently known to work on the following platforms:

    Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unices
    Windows (2000, XP and Vista)

PLplot is built on the above platforms using our CMake-based build system.
Language Bindings

There are many bindings to the PLplot library

    Ada
    C/C++/D
    Fortran 77/90
    Java
    Lisp
    Lua
    OCaml
    Octave
    Perl
    Python
    Tcl/Tk
Output file formats

PLplot device drivers support a number of plotting file formats.

    CGM
    GIF
    JPEG
    LaTeX
    PBM
    PDF
    PNG
    PostScript
    SVG
    Xfig

Interactive Platforms

PLplot device drivers support a number of platforms that are suitable for interactive plotting.

    GNOME
    Gtk+
    PyQt
    Qt
    Tcl/Tk
    wxWidgets
    X

Updates:

PLplot Release 5.9.7

This is a development release of PLplot. It represents the ongoing efforts of the community to improve the PLplot plotting package. Development releases in the 5.9.x series will be available every few months. The next full release will be 5.10.0.

PLplot releases may be found at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915 .

Detailed release notes are given in the README.release file included with the tarball.

Feedback and contributions for PLplot can be submitted to the mailing lists provided at http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=2915 .

PLplot's Home Page is http://plplot.sourceforge.net/ .

Examples.

These examples were generated with the pngcairo device and reflect the status of PLplot-5.9.7.
Select a thumbnail to view full-size image and source code.

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