The same illustration that got us to post about image scripting, also brought up an interesting discovery plus a feature/plug-in for Inkscape.
Detail of illustration for Mute Magazine. Click to view
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Since long, we wished to write about scripting for image creation and manipulation. There are many reason why you would spend some time to do it. To resize a lot of images by hand can be a tedious task, or your software misses a component to achieve a particular result …
The Scribus mailinglist is a good place to start when you want to find out about printing, PDF, typography, color management and everything else related to open source publishing. Developers and other users discuss solutions to problems, but also give background information on why certain technical constraints exist, what licensing …
The focus of this recipe is on the last bit: rearranging pages so that you can easily print out nice booklets. For a quick-and-dirty solution you can use Abiword or OpenOffice for the page-lay out part but Scribus is essential when you want to be precise with typography.
The recipe …
A new kid on the block? Makers of 3D-modeling software Blender announce
that they have developed a "solution for fast and flexible creation of
2D graphics and layouts for web site design and print". Its interface
-no surprise - resembles Blender and other proprietary animation
packages such as Flash; the website …
Xara Xtreme is a vector based software. It runs under Windows and Linux environment. It is a "crossover" software, means it manages pixels and vectors at the same time.
After 15 years of proprietary software status, Xara is operating a strategical migration to open source. The fact that Adobe purchased …
Reporting bugs is frustrating work. I feel pretty stupid when a bug apparently was already reported months ago (was it worth reporting? Am I simply annoying developers by telling them once again something does not work? Should I have spent even more time finding duplicates?), but at the same time …
Often I have wondered why DTP programmes did not have both an "edit
source" view and a "preview mode", so that you could alternate between
those two views and apply styles with more rigour if needed.
You can see why I am so excited about using the Story Editor in …
Le Tigre, here, is not the translation of a Mac os in french, nor a No-Wave grrrrl band. It's a brand new generalist weekly french magazine that released its first issue 3 days ago. The big thing here is that this mag is entirely set on Scribus, and proove by …
From WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
by Florian Cramer
(p22)
The idea that beauty materializes in numerical proportions according to mathematical laws continues to be popular in scientific and engineering cultures, too. Since the early 1970s, Donald Knuth, widely considered the founder of computer science as an independent academic …
