Good way to practice softwares is getting jobs done for friends. This week, Maluka, an excellent, enthusiasming and courageous organic shop (placed at the corner of our office street, which helps!), asked us to design them a logo and cards. Here is the proposal, using Vera Sans Serif and Inkscape …
Matching Tools
Today's challenge brought to you by indexer and typesetter John Culleton.These four covers were done using three different tools:
- Tex (context)
- Gimp
- Inkscape
Who can match covers 1 through 4 with the correct tool?
http://typebye.com/test2.htmlDear Software Developer,
~~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 …Le grec, c'est du chinois
Conversation avec Pierre-Luc Auclair (Déjàvu) et Nicolas Spalinger (OFL)
SIL_deja_vu.mp3 (27 mn - 25 Mb)Extrait d'une conversation avec Pierre Luc Auclair, graphiste et collaborateur dans le projet de police Déjà vu, et Nicolas Spalinger, bénévole de la SIL, équipe fontes libres Debian et Ubuntu, OFLB.
En français dans le …Watch this thread: do until done
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' …
A user should not be able to shoot himself in the foot
Interview with Andreas Vox, Scribus-developer
While
in the background participants to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 start
saying goodbye to each other, Andreas Vox makes time to sit down with us
in the hotel lounge. We want to talk to him about Scribus, the
open-source application for professional page layout …The double aspect of code
"Neurath's pictograms owe much to the Modernist belief that reality may be modified by being codified – standardised, easy-to-grasp templates as a revolution in human affairs. But the templates themselves, or the code, may end up in their turn aestheticised, reified, in need of a further round of de-cryption, a paradigm …
How to catch Ukrainian TV in Moscow
Conversation with Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov (SK1)
Excerpts from a conversation with Igor Novikov (Ukraine) and Valek Philippov (Russia) about how and why they are involved in SK1 pre-press software; the joy of reverse engineering and a handy tip for receiving Russian TV in Ukraine too.igor_valek.mp3 [25mb …
Further Liberation.
If we check the font infos of Liberation font, on Fontforge, for example, here is what we find:
Copyright Ascender Corp...
and a trademark: "Liberation is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and certain other jurisdictions.". In the license text of the …Liberation fonts
A news found on Linuxhelp:
Visit any random website and chances are the website expects your machine to have a set of fonts which have become the de-facto standard on the Internet. The fonts being Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New and so on. While it may not be illegal …