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September 2007

Multiplication of liberation

September 17th, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Multiplication of liberation

OSP is testing Liberation Mono in an invitation for an exhibition in Brussels: (Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus)

Liberation

September 17th, 2007 · Tags: · 2 Comments

Thanks to Red Hat®, a 3 major new sets of fonts under GPL+exception license. Named “Liberation” serif, sans and mono, those types are designed to subset the hegemony of proprietary helvetica, times and monospace courier new because metric compatible. It means distance between letters are the same, lenght of documents won’t change if helvetica is […]

Odessa 12″ released!

September 17th, 2007 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Odessa 12″ released!

Odessa 12″ released!

No it’s not a new software, it’s a record OSP contributed to, using inkscape and gimp… Proud to announce another printed matter on a great maxi.

Mute: now available in Free Software

September 16th, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Mute: now available in Free Software

Mute Vol 2 #6 – Living in a Bubble: Credit, debt and crisis is out! After a few months of testing and trying, the work flow of the entire magazine was converted to Free Software (OpenOffice, Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus on Kubuntu and Ubuntu systems) and… with succes. Read low-graphic pdf’s online or order your […]

Inkscape + xslt = dynamic workflow

September 8th, 2007 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Inkscape + xslt = dynamic workflow

Use Inkscape and XSLT to Create Cross-Platform Reports and Forms, an article by Chad Files on the Linux Journal website that details a workflow to produce dynamic forms and reports for both print and web using Inkscape and Xslt. Description of the problem and requirements: Health-care claims are very intricate (Figure 1). Many boxes and […]