At the Libre Graphics Meeting
2008 in Wroclaw, just before
Michael Terry presents
ingimp to an audience of curious Gimp
developers and users, we meet up to talk more about 'instrumenting The
Gimp' and about the way Terry thinks data analysis could be done …
For everyone (like me) who keeps re-reading the 1992 edition of Robin Kinross' Modern Typography: an essay in critical history... his revised edition (published in 2004) ends in an interestingly different way*:
"The phrase ‘democratization of typography’ has become common, referring to the wide availability of the tools of production …
Philosopher of science, Bruno
Latour, opened the recent Networks of
Design conference with a keynote
address: A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of
Design. In his lecture, Latour linked the growing importance of design
with his idea that "matters of fact" have become "matters of
concern".
Provocatively …
With a staggering 1463 points (runners up Typo3 and OpenLieroX ended on
respectively 1269 and 572 points), the Open Source prepress project
SK1 has well deserved it's ticket to the
upcoming Hackontest event in Zurich, 25-26
September.
We're very happy to hear that the sK1 team will have a chance …
As you might have gathered from Thomas Phinney's latest comment on our post The Status of Utopia, Adobe will not re-release Utopia under an Open Font License. It doesn't mean though the font cannot be studied, copied, modified and distributed: "Although changing the license would make it easier for folks …
Dave
Walden from the TeX User Group introduces his excellent TUG Interview
Corner as follows:
"technology is created by and evolves with use by people, and the points of view and backgrounds of the people influence the technology"
The ever growing list of interviewees include Barbara Beeton, Donald Knuth, Herman …
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 …
Our
favourite killer-app Scribus is competing to be included in
Hackontest, a "24 hour programming competition
between teams of three open source software projects".
A container designed by
E-Toy.corporation will house
the competition, which takes place at the Google sponsored
OpenExpo (the Swiss conference and trade
show for Free …
On October 11, 2006 Adobe granted members of the Tex User Group the
right to use, modify and distribute the Utopia typeface:
Adobe Systems Incorporated ("Adobe") hereby grants to the TeX Users Group and its members a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to the typeface software for the Utopia Regular, Utopia …
A lively discussion about the terminology used in Scribus:
http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-May/028994.html
All 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 …
