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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
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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 …
250 cm2 of printed matters OSP visit card have been delivered.
They look bright! The file delivered to the printer was a PDF from
inkscape.
It seems that the SVG suffered of a RGB to CYMK conversion which altered
a bit the colors. All colors were based on 100% of …
The new maxi vynil from Odessa is about to be send to production. We worked on the label design yesterday and inkscape's "clone generator" feature did the difference. It was the perfect tool to render an electronic disco ball - and type, evoking the minimal dance pop of the music and …
Nomade, an Argentinian group of artists using Free Software, just finished a printed publication on intellectual property, plus a detailed tour through the process: http://nomade.liminar.com.ar/wakka.php?wakka=MaBI&v=der
Included: design sketches, illustrations, description of the pre-press process, final pdf's and a html version …
Mute Magazine develops Open Source software, and has recently installed Ubuntu on all office machines. Now they want to move their lay-out away from QuarkXpress too.
Last week, Simon Worthington and Darron Broad from Mute came over to discuss the project. First of all we will need to make sure …
A widely used proprietary color-system such as Pantone, obviously raises
questions for Open Source graphic tools. Gregory Pittman writes:
* Obviously, no one, including Pantone, can copyright a color, and especially in these days where the RGB/CMYK color systems are freely usable -- ie, you can't put a claim on RGB …
Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell discuss the future of Free and Open Source Software for commercial printing:
Right now, I would say the biggest weakness from an FOSS point of view is there are few good high quality fonts. It is one of those areas which requires tremendous amounts of …
A report from the whole day is here:
http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/in...
For Wizard of OS Constant Printing Team members Harrisson and Pierre
Huyghebaert showed that designing and printing booklets with Open Source
software is nowhere near Science Fiction.
Wednesday the 13th of September, Pierre and Harrisson presented …
Lay-out in Scribus
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Finished! Sketched and produced a seven page contribution to
Open (Dutch bi-monthly on
art in public space) + inside cover. Images were prepared in Gimp;
pattern assembled in Inkskape and document lay-out in Scribus
(v1.3.3.2); all on Ubuntu.
- Importing outlines from Gimp …
