The Linux Foundation OpenPrinting work group, organises a get-together
24-27 September in Montreal.
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal
As stated on their site, the printing activities of the Linux Foundation revolve around a few focal points:
Over the last few months, the OSP and Mute team have established a new design and production workflow for Mute magazine, using Open Source tools. Below are a few of the questions we are encountering during the last stages of this process.
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Storing images …
Interview with George Williams, Fontforge developer
(...) I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind -- and in some sense I find the user interface beautiful. I'm not sure that anyone else in the world does, because it's what I want, but I think it's beautiful. (George Williams, May …
Wonderful Inkscape unfortunately does not support black overprinting. You can define colors in CMYK but it will not allow values such as 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K (Inkscape for some reason automatically converts these back to 0% C + 0% M + 0% Y + 100% K).
Left: cyan plate …
Frog and Prince is a fairytale featuring free software, python
scripting and an open font. The story was premièred at LGM
2007 (Montréal, Canada), and
formed the centerpiece of the Canadian Printing
Breakfast (Brussels, June
2007). Below is everything you need to make the recipe, but you can also
browse …
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Impressions from Canadian Printing Breakfast in Nepomuk Bar, Brussels. More images in Constants Image Repository.
Special thanks: An, Wendy & Pierre (serving), Ivan (Python), Nurse (records), Peter (pictures), Nicolas (printing), Veronique (City Min(e)d).
Nepomuk Bar - City Mine(d) - Rue Saint-Jean Nepomucen, 17, Bruxel
Click here for English
Open Source Publishing est fier de vous inviter à son petit-déjeuner
canadien, où vous seront servies leurs dernières aventures dans le monde
des Logiciels Libres. Au menu: mise en page animée d’un …
Today's challenge brought to you by indexer and typesetter John
Culleton.
These four covers were done using three different tools:
Who can match covers 1 through 4 with the correct tool?
http://typebye.com/test2.html
~~We hope you are as much inspired by these texts as we are.~~
~~You should read this!~~
~~We think these texts are essential.~~
~~These texts need to be seen in context of their time.~~
~~Would this be of any use?~~
~~Will you read this please?~~
~~Please do not take their …
Do free software developers need lawyers, when reverse engineering formats such as Corel Draw? How to work on the compatibility of file formats, when risking law suits from patent holders? Should we forget about opening up proprietary formats altogether? Jon Philips takes the position that developers should 'do until done' …
