Alexandre Leray has written a nice tutorial on how to create your own pledgie-badge: http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie
Thank you ginger coons for your tasty habanero pepper and don’t forget to donate to http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926!

During the Polish Print Party, a scene performed silently behind the bar counter…
they are about :
=== FIGlet ==============================

Go to Synaptic to install the Figlet package
Find the pre-installed fonts: /usr/share/figlet
To add more fonts: /usr/share/figlet (That is for all users. Otherwise, you have to put the new fonts in a directory of your choice by indicated with [...]

Virginie and Laurence checking the V/J10 program in real size.
Poster is an excellent tool to print .eps or .ps documents in tiles. You can adjust the final size of the file, the amount of overlap, size of the media you print on, work from a percentage (‘enlarge 500%’) etc. Install poster through Synaptic package manager [...]

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, and specifically its magic “clone [...]

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 make [...]

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. Or you want to turn [...]

Design Tools for Designers, Femke Snelting
19 steps to do a Booklet, OsBlog
Text available on line: OSBlog
PDF lay-out: berlin_pp.pdf
PDF cover: cover_berlin.pdf
License: Licence Art Libre
Date of publishing: 13-09-2006 (Wizard of OS – Berlin)