The open source font Gentium and The SIL Open Font License are both developed and distributed by S.I.L., also known as The Summer Institute for Linguistics, apparently a subsidiary of the Wicliffe Bible Translators. S.I.L. has developed large-scale ethno-linguistic research projects such as http://www.ethnologue …
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The Open Font License
[check The politics of typography before applying SIL-OFL]
The SIL-OFL is a free license specifically developed for (multi-lingual) fonts. These are the four freedoms guaranteed through the Open Font License (similar to other Free licenses):
* Use: the freedom to use font software for any purpose. (freedom 0)
* Study and adaptation …Community marketing?
On http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ Firefox "Calls All Firefox Fans" to work on posters, leaflets, e-cards, websites and videoclips in an attempt take more market share away from Internet Explorer. One of their most popular campaigns I've posted here, because it replicates so many cliches about women and computers, that …
Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz
Instead of using the usual The Quick Brown Fox jumped over the lazy dog, this rather absurd text is set as default in Scribus Font Preview:
I wonder who decided to use this particular sentence, and why?
Alternative pangrams to choose from: http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/pangrams.htm …Gentium
[If you consider using Gentium, check The politics of typography]
"Gentium was driven by the need for a free, attractive, legible, high-quality font for extended Latin (and Greek and Cyrillic) use. Nothing else was available that was suitable for publishing use, so I decided to give it a try." (from …
Bitstream Charter
To my surprise Bitstream Charter, one of the few usable Open Source fonts around I know of, is currently published on myfonts.com with the following licence: http://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense?id=315
Florian Cramer explains what is really going on:
"That's true, but the license change refers to …
Scribus Bug Reporting
New addiction: reading through the thousands of bug-reports on the rigourously precise Scribus bugtracking system.
http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.phpIt is somehow consoling to see those thousands of minor and major problems scroll by. We will be adding our own reports over the coming weeks (see below).
- Looks …
Scribus 1.3
A few days ago, I installed version 1.3.3 and a quick review already shows that the screen-mouse response has come a long way since I used Scribus 1.2 to get this poster printed:
Of course, using software seriously for the first time is a disorienting experience in …
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