Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a Quarantaine pour une bonne Print Party! Ce sera a 16:00, et ca durera jusque peut-etre 20:00. Ca sera en français avec accent, (et bequilles en anglais et en néerlandais), mené par la Constant Printing + Cooking Team. Ou l’on apprendra comment mettre en page, imposer et imprimer un booklet avec [...]

Friday July 7 16:00: Printing Party at Quarantaine (Brussels), with Scribus get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails. More details in a few days! Find more P s with open content license at: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv (Advanced search > Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos)

The Scribus mailinglist is a good place to start when you want to find out about printing, PDF, typography, color management and everything else related to open source publishing. Developers and other users discuss solutions to problems, but also give background information on why certain technical constraints exist, what licensing issues arise. The Scribus list [...]

Two projects to submit fonts to, or find others to work with: Typeforge http://www.typeforge.net The Typeforge project was initiated by Portuguese type designer Pedro Amado, to create a platform for “open source collaborative type design”. You are encouraged to share sketches, notes and ideas and work on collective projects. Good Fontforge tips + tricks too! [...]

Microsoft has recently announced that their 2007 release of Office will not support the “save-as-PDF”-option anymore. This might be bad news for designers’ favorite file-format. PDF could become rather exotic when Microsoft users decide en masse to “Save-As-XPS” instead.

At this years’ edition of Digitales, we tested out a recipe for producing booklets, using texts with open licenses that are available on line. The recipe was an excuse to discuss the relation between software and design, why it would be interesting for designers/publishers to consider using FLOSS tools and what the problems might be.

The focus of this recipe is on the last bit: rearranging pages so that you can easily print out nice booklets. For a quick-and-dirty solution you can use Abiword or OpenOffice for the page-lay out part but Scribus is essential when you want to be precise with typography. The recipe is based on the How-To [...]

A new kid on the block? Makers of 3D-modeling software Blender announce that they have developed a “solution for fast and flexible creation of 2D graphics and layouts for web site design and print”. Its interface -no surprise – resembles Blender and other proprietary animation packages such as Flash; the website mentions upfront that the [...]

Discovering that there are so little free fonts* available, keeps surprising us. But did you know that even the logo for Debian, the version of Linux that amongst others Ubuntu is based on, was done in a proprietary font (Poppl Laudatio Condensed)? * There is a lot of Freeware around, but hardly any fonts explicitly [...]

The French weekly Le Tigre announces: This week, we have an article about free softwares in “Le Tigre”: http://www.le-tigre.net/No11.html There is a “encadré” about Scribus. You can see it there: http://rdereel.free.fr/letigre/011/scribus.jpg

Constant’s contribution to OknoPublic01, May 26 2006 New media curator — information architect — theater maker — science fiction writer — data base programmer — media designer or software artist: we use computer programmes to write, read, listen, publish, edit and play. More than often we do all these things at the same time and [...]

Production line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing and binding of The Continuous Present On May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into the possible futures of reading, [...]