Wonderful Inkscape unfortunately does not support black overprinting. You can define colors in CMYK but it will not allow values such as 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K (Inkscape for some reason automatically converts these back to 0% C + 0% M + 0% Y + 100% K).
Left: cyan plate …
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 …
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 …
Today's challenge brought to you by indexer and typesetter John
Culleton.
These four covers were done using three different tools:
Who can match covers 1 through 4 with the correct tool?
http://typebye.com/test2.html
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
.jpg
or download complete zipped .svg file +
images
Lock layer
It is often helpful to lock an object …
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 …
