Frog and Prince is a fairytale featuring free software, python
scripting and an open font. The story was premièred at LGM
2007 (Montréal, Canada), and
formed the centerpiece of the Canadian Printing
Breakfast (Brussels, June
2007). Below is everything you need to make the recipe, but you can also
browse …
Tea for Tiles
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.htmlHow 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 …
Libre Graphics Meeting
Montreal, 4-6 May 2007
An
intense meeting of demos and how-to’s – LGM takes place in three fairly
intimate rooms in the Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Montreal,
which means we have enough time and opportunity to ask our questions,
set up interviews, discuss bread baking with developers, designers …Smooth curves drawing font revolution?
Montreal Flight Discoveries
While
on our way to the Libre Graphics
Meeting in Montreal we've done a
quick test of Scribus 1.3.4cvs and ... good news!Major New Feature No.1: possibility to add character styles (besides paragraph styles) and a general clean up of the way styles work. More testing needed …
The Flow of Text in MasterPages
The scripting in Scribus happens in the house of Python. The Scribus module is loaded into scripts with the standard import scribus or from scribus import *. In this post, we'll be using only one function off this module:
createText(x, y, width, height)This function puts a TextBox of the …
Use-ability
At the FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting) conference in Brussels, two openSuse developers presented their research on usability of KDE desktops.
Their testing methods consists of interviews, questionnaires, screen recordings plus precise video documentation of a group of 10 people trying to accomplish 12 tasks using various …
Watch this thread: The color of ideas
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 …
