On the way to a new text engine, the nice things that will be lost.
As of revision 15877, Scribus displays severals paragraphs, fully shaped
and featured, but remains uncertain of where to put them. The
Scribus/OIF project goes on, aiming, among other things, to make graphic
designers a …
from cage to pipeline
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H E Y ! Libre Graphics Magazine #1 is out !
Bravo Ana, ginger, Ricardo + the whole team and participants.
Follow the details about the production process and order soon your copy from their blog.Infiltrating culture in a positive way
The opening talk therefore sounds like a manifest, asking to valorize Free Software, in order to "infiltrate culture in a positive way". Pierre Marchand, member of the OSP collective, presenting a collaborative ornamental font, supports this proposal totally: "In our domain, the freedom of software is the single tool to …
Nancy → Poitiers
After we turned the simplest design into a complicated process involving Fontforge, Subversion, Scribus Python scripter, PoDoFo, glue and good wills, the Dingbats Liberation Fest font (rev.106) is now visible in good company (DejaVu for the closer and some amazing pieces of art around) at make art - in between …
la bouche de la reine
Courtesy: Inkscape parallel-stroke hatching
446 Nancy A5
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make art opening starts at 19 pm
Hurry up ! Dingbats Liberation Fest Characters are crowding the walls.
Get your D.L.F contributor certificate ✄Stop competing, Start collaborating
Excellent post by Troy Sobotka explaining why designers should collaborate with Free Software projects and stop responding to contests:
"We need a round table interaction where literature, art, design, philosophy, psychology, and sociology can be engaged. We need a cross pollination of creative fields and studies. We need to have …
Time for a new adventure
Dear Ubuntu,
A few weeks ago I needed to re-install my computer. Using the convenient Startup Disk Creator, I prepared a USB-stick with a fresh version of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, rebooted the computer and clicked 'install'. While the Ubuntu slide-show took my mind off the wait and the …
Fund Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1!
We're very excited about the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine coming up soon. A place for discussion on the use and development of Libre Graphics seems more relevant than ever. With ginger coons, Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente on the editorial team, support from the Mardigrafe printing house and …
a poetic and political necessity
Next week another delegation of OSP travels to Tel Aviv to present at the conference Open Code Versus Military Culture? Aspects in Israel Digital Culture organised by the Shenkar College for Engineering and Design. Following the talk, there will be a worksession at the Israeli Center for Digital Art.
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