Imagine ((This Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine describes the sophisticated new text-engine that the Scribus team is preparing us at this very moment)) a paragraph in Scribus. The first word consists of three vowels and a consonant. The Scribus text-engine receives this cluster of characters as a first …
Scribus Re-loaded
Fresh news from Paris:
Since a few months the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie supports the Scribus team. The goal is to make the program ready for new developers and users from Asia and Africa and this is *very* good news for the rest of us too!
The project goes …
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.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 …
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.
From …
diff git imagemagick
From wikipedia: In computing, diff is a file comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files.
We have been playing with git. There's more coming! For now, this quick prototype (30M) illustrates some ideas about diff, and images files. It will hopefully be improved in the future :)
In the …
Impossible choice
Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to 'Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win'. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random …
One thing leads to another
Following
a trackback, Alexandre discovered the work of Lafkon studio a few days
ago. Than, through Antonio Roberts' comment on this same post, I find
out about his work with animated fontfiles. Antonio writes:"Font files are files that attribute a style to the otherwise plain text that we see …
Speak my language
A couple of days ago I was looking at the OSP blog trackback list and discovered the Fork/Memo blog. It documents the work of Lafkon studio. Lafkon is Christoph Haag and Benjamin Stephan -- two graphic designers working with unconventional tools for graphic design, including Latex and shell scripts among …
SILEX-LEX: exchanging layers
