For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter API in a printed job and a catalogue for the Piet Zwart Institute’s Media design graduation show formed the perfect excuse.

At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was very simple Perl. If you […]

Towards is a cartographic project close to OSP and the second publication is finally out and available after a long 9 months of preparation. Following our informations, it’s the last one that will be produced using proprietary software ;)… But the timeline present on the cover and backcover, made from all the posts written since […]

            _          _            | | o      | |                  o    _   __  | |     ,  | |         _   ,_       _  _  _|_  |/ \_/  \_|/  |  / \_|/ \      |/ \_/  |  |  / |/ |  |  |__/ \__/ |__/|_/ \/ |   |_/   |__/    |_/|_/  |  |_/|_/ /|                             /| \|                             \|    _   __,   ,_  _|_  |/ \_/  |  /  |  |  |   |  |__/ \_/|_/   |_/|_/ \_/|/ /|                      /| \|                      \| vendredi le 27 juin 2008 OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de sa première fonte en licence libre: la NotCourier-sans. Nous serions ravis de vous retrouver autour d’un live lay-out, des Jiaozi/Pierogi et de quelques surprises (polonaises) lors de cette […]

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 Zapf and numerous other less […]

Kanttekeningen bij een databank documents our investigation into the inner workings of the database of BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art. To visualise the data stored, we wrote a plugin in Inkscape, manually generated graphs and scripted .svg – you can read everything about what we found and how we worked […]

June 27, 19:00 20:00 @ Compilothèque* Polish Print Party With: launch of NotCourier-sans, OSP FAQ, live lay-out, Jiaozi/Pierogi and more. *50 Quai des Péniches 1000 Brussels

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 doing it themselves. if you […]

image/index.php?level=album&id=21 Hot off the press: CROSS-over, Kunst, media en technologie in Vlaanderen. Published by BAM / Lannoo and designed by OSP 🙂