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April 2007

Out of the veil

April 28th, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Out of the veil

250 cm2 of printed matters OSP visit card have been delivered. They look bright! The file delivered to the printer was a PDF from inkscape. It seems that the SVG suffered of a RGB to CYMK conversion which altered a bit the colors. All colors were based on 100% of magenta and/or cyan and/or yellow […]

Managing Fonts

April 28th, 2007 · Tags: · Comments Off on Managing Fonts

DEbian Font MAnager a.k.a. dfontmgr (available through the Synaptic Package Manager) is helpful when you want to register and unregister fonts on a Debian / Ubuntu system. After installation you can start the manager, which is a GUI for the Defoma package, from the command line. Type sudo dfontmgr (you need to be root to […]

Soundscape goes Inkscape

April 27th, 2007 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on Soundscape goes Inkscape

The new maxi vynil from Odessa is about to be send to production. We worked on the label design yesterday and inkscape’s “clone generator” feature did the difference. It was the perfect tool to render an electronic disco ball – and type, evoking the minimal dance pop of the music and the complexity of the […]

Kissing Frogs

April 25th, 2007 · Tags: · · 1 Comment

Sneak preview of what New OSP might look like:

The Flow of Text in MasterPages

April 23rd, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on 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 specified width and height at […]

Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat?

April 16th, 2007 · Tags: · · 1 Comment

The Institute of Network Cultures published an insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist Rosalind Gill. Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web, is based on 40 ‘semi-structured’ interviews with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information architects, …). Her study reveals the often precarious […]

OSP at LGM

April 10th, 2007 · Tags: · Comments Off on OSP at LGM

For the Libre Graphics Meeting, taking place May 4-6 in Montreal, Canada, OSP members Harrisson and Femke will speak about FLOSS and design: Relaying Systems – Why designers should be interested in FLOSS. The programme is here!