At this years' edition of
Digitales, we tested out
a recipe for producing booklets, using texts with open licenses that are
available on line. The recipe was an excuse to discuss the relation
between software and design, why it would be interesting for
designers/publishers to consider using FLOSS tools …
Articles by Femke 
How To Print A Booklet In 19 Easy Steps
The focus of this recipe is on the last bit: rearranging pages so that you can easily print out nice booklets. For a quick-and-dirty solution you can use Abiword or OpenOffice for the page-lay out part but Scribus is essential when you want to be precise with typography.
The recipe …
DTPblender
A new kid on the block? Makers of 3D-modeling software Blender announce that they have developed a "solution for fast and flexible creation of 2D graphics and layouts for web site design and print". Its interface -no surprise - resembles Blender and other proprietary animation packages such as Flash; the website …Old News
Discovering that there are so little free fonts* available, keeps surprising us. But did you know that even the logo for Debian, the version of Linux that amongst others Ubuntu is based on, was done in a proprietary font (Poppl Laudatio Condensed)?
* There is a lot of Freeware around, but …
"instable", mais actuellement utilisée
The French weekly Le Tigre announces:This week, we have an article about free softwares in "Le Tigre":
http://www.le-tigre.net/No11.html
There is a "encadré" about Scribus. You can see it there:
http://rdereel.free.fr/letigre/011/scribus.jpg
A fish can't judge the water
Constant's contribution to OknoPublic01, May 26 2006
New media curator --- information architect -- theater maker -- science fiction writer -- data base programmer -- media designer or software artist: we use computer programmes to write, read, listen, publish, edit and play. More than often we do all these things at the same time and …The Tomorrow Book / Printing Party 0.1
Production
line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing
and binding of The Continuous PresentOn May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into …
It is in the air
Reporting bugs is frustrating work. I feel pretty stupid when a bug apparently was already reported months ago (was it worth reporting? Am I simply annoying developers by telling them once again something does not work? Should I have spent even more time finding duplicates?), but at the same time …
Stylesheets
Often I have wondered why DTP programmes did not have both an "edit source" view and a "preview mode", so that you could alternate between those two views and apply styles with more rigour if needed.
You can see why I am so excited about using the Story Editor in …Don't keep it to yourself!
http://www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts/
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