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Articles in the tools category 
Free Software and Cars
In this recent Toyota campaign, a race-driver draws a font. And if you watch the fast-paced 'making-of' video closely, it seems that Please Make Me Design (a band of type-designers from Brussels) used Free Software to produce it: FontForge and OpenLayers are used to create the project.
A few years …
Pelgrimage to Pragma
\definetypeface
Designing with TeX: episode III
Thanks to the super active ConTeXt mailinglist, we are finally able to load our own fonts! And of course, once we know how, we are almost disappointed that it is so easy to do.
if you compile this file:
\definetypeface[Libertinage][rm][Xserif][Libertinage] \setupbodyfont …Lions and tulips
Designing with TeX: episode II
"Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that specify the logical structure of a document". If only we had sooner understood that user here is writer, not designer, we might have given up earlier. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2 goes on …
Figlet...Cowsay...
During the Polish Print Party, a scene performed silently behind the bar counter...
they are about :
=== FIGlet ==============================
- Go to Synaptic to install the Figlet package
- Find the pre-installed fonts: /usr/share/figlet
- To add more fonts:/usr/share/figlet (That is for all users. Otherwise, you have to put the …
What you won't get for 100$
On his weblog Infinite Knots, Inkscape's Bryce Harrington explains that if you want to have a feature implemented in an open source project, offering money will probably not help. He describes how "folks who aren't developers" challenged Inkscape developers to make the application work on MacOSX, after first having tried …
We could save the term by using it
A lively discussion about the terminology used in Scribus:
http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-May/028994.htmlAll started with this post from Hans-Josef Heck, linking the language of digital lay-out to that of historical printing techniques:
"Master" is the perfect English term. The master masters a page, a …
Waiting for SK1
After the presentation of Igor Novikov about the new version of sk1, the OSP team can't wait. It is promised to be published for June, in the meantime we installed the current version and are testing our svgs with it.
To install the current version on ubuntu:
grab the three …
Potrace --alphamax 1.334 (or the limit between artificial and natural)
Since the first time I've used an autotrace program -Adobe Streamline 1.0 in the early nineties- I've been disappointed by the unavoidable angles in curves, named kinks or cusps, that pledged the vector output. Lots of designers and developers seem not to care about it, but for me it …
