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<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>foundry_blog</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Foundry (blog)]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Welcome to the OSP Foundry
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<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>live</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Live]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[OSP shares findings. Prints and parties. Public appearances.]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>news</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[News]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Fresh and new for and at OSP.]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>texts</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Texts]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Library. Texts we like, texts we write.]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>tools</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Tools]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Tools for work and reflection. Not always digital.]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
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<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>fiche</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>Foundry (blog)</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Fiche]]></wp:cat_name></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>fonts-foundry</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>Foundry (blog)</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Fonts]]></wp:cat_name></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>libertinage</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>Fonts</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Libertinage]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Short description of Libertinage]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>notcouriersans</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>Fonts</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[NotCourierSans]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Slogan description of not courier sans]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
<wp:category><wp:category_nicename>osp-din</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>Fonts</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[OSP-DIN]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[Short description of OSP-Din]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>3d</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[3D]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>accessibility</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[accessibility]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>animation</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[animation]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>archive</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[archive]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>archiving</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Archiving]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>awards</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Awards]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>batik</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Batik]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>berlin</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Berlin]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>books</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[books]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>bug-reporting</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Bug reporting]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>bugs</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Bugs]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>call</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[call]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>calligraphy</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[calligraphy]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>campaigns</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[campaigns]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>cartography</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[cartography]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>casting</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[casting]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>caution-proprietary-software-used</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Caution: proprietary software used!]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>caution-proprietary-softwares-used</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[CAUTION: Proprietary software(s) used!]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>clipart</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[clipart]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>code</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Code]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>collaborative</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Collaborative]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>colors</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Colors]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>commandline</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Command Line]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>command-line</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Command Line]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>competition</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[competition]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>conference</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Conference]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>constant-verlag</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Constant Verlag]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>context</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[context]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>contribute</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Contribute!]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>cooking</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Cooking]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>counter-punch</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[counter-punch]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>courier</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Courier]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>culture-of-work</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Culture of work]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>data-analysis</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Data analysis]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>derivatives</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[derivatives]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>design-philosopy</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Design philosopy]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>design-samples</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Design Samples]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>digital-drawing</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Digital drawing]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>digitalisation</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Digitalisation]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>din</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[DIN]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>dingbats</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[dingbats]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>discussion</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Discussion]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>drawing</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Drawing]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>education</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Education]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>exhibition</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[exhibition]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>expo</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[expo]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>face</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[face]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>filter</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Filter]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>filtering</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[filtering]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>folly-as-an-inversion</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[folly as an inversion]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>font</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Font]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>fontforge</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Fontforge]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>fonzie</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[fonzie]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>fosdem</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[fosdem]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>free-software-community</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Free Software Community]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>further-reading</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Further reading]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>future</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[future]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>gimp</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Gimp]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>git</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[git]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>grouppicture</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[grouppicture]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>handmade</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Handmade]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>hardware</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Hardware]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>history</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[History]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>how-to</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[How-to]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>ideas</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[ideas]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>images</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Images]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>in-the-news</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[in the news]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>in-the-pipeline</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[In the pipeline]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>ingredients</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Ingredients]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>inkscape</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Inkscape]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>intellectual-property</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Intellectual property]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>interview</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Interview]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>johann-froben</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Johann Froben]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>krita</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Krita]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>latex</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LaTex]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>letterpress</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[letterpress]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>letters</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[letters]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm-2007</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM 2007]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm-2008</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM 2008]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm-2009</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM 2009]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm-2010</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM 2010]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm-2011</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM 2011]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>lgm-2012</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[LGM 2012]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>libre-fonts</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Libre Fonts]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>libre-graphics-magazine</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Libre Graphics Magazine]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>licenses</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Licenses]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>london</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[London]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>make-art</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[make art]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>manual</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Manual]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>map</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Map]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>materiality</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Materiality]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>matrix</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[matrix]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>media-studies</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[media studies]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>mirror</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[mirror]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>music</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Music]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>not-courier-sans</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Not-Courier sans]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>ocr</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[ocr]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>fonts</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Open Fonts]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>open-office</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Open Office]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>operating-sytems</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Operating sytems]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>paper</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Paper]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>party</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Party]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>patents</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Patents]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>photos</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Photos]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>pictures</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Pictures]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>piracy</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Piracy]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>planning</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Planning]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>pocket-book</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[pocket book]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>presentations</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Presentations]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>print-party</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Print Party]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>printing</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[printing]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>printing-publishing</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Printing + Publishing]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>proprietary</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[proprietary!]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>public-appearance</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[public appearance]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>punch</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[punch]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>python</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Python]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>radio</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Radio]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>reading-list</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Reading list]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>recipe</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Recipe]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>recipes</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Recipes]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>release</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Release]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>report</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Report]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>repository</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[repository]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>reproduction</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[reproduction]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>resource</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[resource]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>resources</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[resources]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>retrospective-reading</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Retrospective Reading]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
<wp:tag><wp:tag_slug>risographe</wp:tag_slug><wp:tag_name><![CDATA[Risographe]]></wp:tag_name></wp:tag>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a graphic design collective that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based foundation for art and media <a href="http://www.constantzw.org">Constant</a>, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a range of F/LOSS tools.
Since 2006, we investigate the potential of F/LOSS in a professional design environment. We do not expect to find (or offer!) the same experience as the ones we are used to. In fact, we are interested in experimenting with everything that shows up in the cracks.
<strong>More about OSP</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=1315">What is in a name</a></li>
<li><a href="http://snelting.domainepublic.net/texts/why_open_fonts.odt">Why OSP thinks fonts should be free software</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/awkward_gestures.pdf">Awkward Gestures</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/open-source-publishing-interview-with-femke-snelting/">Interview with Matthew Fuller</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=135">Design Tools for Designers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/nains.odt"><em>Les Nains</em></a>, a song by Marie Dubas (1937)</li>
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<strong>OSP members</strong>
<em>Harrisson</em>
Interview: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/you-need-to-copy-to-understand">You need to copy to understand</a>
Graphic designer and teacher based in Brussels. Started to use as much Open Source software as possible on his Macintosh as part of a research project <em>The Tomorrow Book</em> at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. By now his practice runs on F/LOSS entirely.
<em>Pierre Huyghebaert</em>
<a href="http://www.speculoos.com">http://www.speculoos.com</a>
Exploring several practices around graphic design, he currently drives the studio Speculoos. Pierre is interested in using free sofware to <em>re</em>-learn to work in other ways and collaboratively on cartography, type design, web interface, schematic illustration, book design and teaching these practices. Along participating in OSP, he articulate residential spaces and narratives through the artists temporary alliance <a href="http://www.potentialestate.org">Potential Estate</a> and develop collaborative and subjective mapping with <a href="http://www.towards.be">Towards</a> and others Brussels urban projects.
<em>Ludivine Loiseau</em>
<a href="http://www.ludi.be/">http://www.ludi.be/</a>
crashed into Open Source on board of an OSP truck on the way to Poland. Is part of the Speculoos team, studied typography at the École Estienne in Paris
<em>Nicolas Maleve</em>
<a href="http://towards.be/">http://towards.be</a>
Systems- and software developer from Brussels, currently living in Barcelona, with a long interest in the politics and practice of software. Uses Linux since 1998 and makes publishing- and distribution systems for collaborative work.
<em>Yi Jiang</em>
<a href="http://www.taidangao.org/">http://www.taidangao.org/</a>
Shuttled between graphic design and non graphic design after studying in The Central Academy of Art & Design (Beijing) and a short stay at ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels). Till the day that she knocked at the door of OSP...
<em>Ivan Monroy López</em>
<a href="http://textzi.net">http://textzi.net</a>
Programmer, writer from Mexico. Studied at the Piet Zwart Institute Media programme. Interested in programmatic print, and niche publishing. His new zine is called ``print soapbox''. He will give you a copy if you just ask
<em>Femke Snelting</em>
<a href=" http://snelting.domainepublic.net/">http://snelting.domainepublic.net/</a>
Graphic designer and artist based in Brussels, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software.
<em>John Haltiwanger</em>
<a title=" :. dripping digital .:" href="http://drippingdigital.com/blog">http://drippingdigital.com/blog</a>
Working in programming languages, new media theory, and typographic design software, John strives for a balance between the practical, the aesthetic, and the boundary-breaking.
And also: <a href="http://stdin.fr/">Alexandre Leray</a>, <a href="http://www.oep-h.com">Pierre Marchand</a>, <a href="http://stdin.fr/">Stéphanie Vilayphiou</a>, <a href="http://typeandgouda.wordpress.com/">Seb Sanfilippo</a>, ...
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[.:: DiseñoLibre.ORG ::. » LGM 2008: Open Source Publishing]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] Open Source Publishing (OSP), es un grupo de diseñadores gráficos belgas que exploran herramientas y alternativas libres/abiertas para diseño, en particular para diseño editorial y tipográfico. OSP publica un blog imperdible, con mucha información sobre software libre para diseño, con artículos en inglés y francés. (OSP se desarrolla en el marco de la agrupación Constant, una asociación sin fines de lucro que realiza sus actividades en Bruselas desde 1997: feminismo, alternativas al copyright y trabajos a través de la red son algunos de sus temas de interés.) [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[manystuff.org — Graphic Design daily selection » Blog Archive » Open Source Publishing]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] Open Source Publishing is a graphic design agency that uses only Free and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based digital culture foundation Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing graphic design using an expanding range of tools. [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[An open source graphic design agency « Blog de Steve Prud'Homme]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] Open Source Publishing is a graphic design agency that uses only Free and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based digital culture foundation Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing graphic design using an expanding range of tools. We are serious about testing the possibilities and limitations of F/LOSS in a professional design environment, without expecting to find (or offer!) the same experience as the ones we are used to. In fact, we are interested in experimenting with everything that shows up in the cracks. [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Open Source Publishing (OSP): abriendo las fuentes en TheTrendNet. | ABSOLUT Network]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] nos presenta a la agencia de diseño gráfico OPS : Open Source Publishing, parte de la vanguardista escena de cultura digital gestada en Bruselas alrededor de movimiento [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Department 21 | An experimental interdisciplinary workspace at the Royal College of Art]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] collaboratively to design a series of posters for the OSP talk on Friday, using a chat client to control Scribus – a free and open source Desktop [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Ok, it is time now.</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/is-it-possible</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is it possible to get a graphic design professionnal workflow with open source softwares?
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<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/scribus-133</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago, I installed version 1.3.3 and a quick review already shows that the screen-mouse response has come a long way since I used Scribus 1.2 to get this poster printed:
<a href="http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/oclPoster.jpg" alt="" /></a>
Of course, using software seriously for the first time is a disorienting experience in itself, but in this case the application responded in such unexpected ways that it left me sort of hopeless about the possibility that lets say... designing a book, or doing anything more 'subtle' would be possible. With the newest version, the next project might be a lot easier to acomplish I hope.
Download available at <a href="http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/">http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/scribus-bug-reporting</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[New addiction: reading through the thousands of bug-reports on the rigourously precise Scribus bugtracking system.
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<a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.php">http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.php</a>
It is somehow consoling to see those thousands of minor and major problems scroll by. We will be adding our own reports over the coming weeks (see below).
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<li>Looks like change of name in Paragraph style means as much as deleting that style. Should be prevented or not be the case.</li>
<li>Hardly any control over selecting blocks of text in preview mode. Can't figure out why.</li>
<li>'Paste' (text within story editor) is extremely slow; screen can freezes for up to 50 sec. before applying change.</li>
<li>Paste from other applications (Mozilla Thunderbird, gedit, Character Map) does not work.</li>
<li>After 'replace' has been executed, feedback should be 'Replaced x amount of elements' (not: 'Search Finished')</li>
<li>Application of changes through Properties is completely irregular. some changes have effect, some not... some changes trail behind, others are erased... Sometimes styles are overruled by others, sometimes not.</li>
<li>Font size, line height etc. are not forced when applied over selected text; it seems especially messy when that selection had different styles/sizes etc. to begin with. When multiple paragraphs are selected, styles are sometimes applied, sometimes not.</li>
<li>Feedback in Properties does not reflect the actual formatting of selected text.</li>
<li>When a block of text with more than one style applied (or having different sizes, colors etc.) is selected, the dialogue in properties would need to grey out/go blank for those specifications that are mixed. (and not suggest that all selected text has one particular size, color)</li>
<li>It is too risky to only be able to check the result on screen (or scanning the text word by word).</li>
<li>'Wordstyles' should be dominant over Paragraph styles and a paragraph style applied- now if f.e. a line return is removed in a paragraph on which a paragraph style applies, 'wordstyles' are removed.</li>
<li>Changes applied through story editor seem to be more consistently applied but hard to handle because of visual feedback lacking. Also it is not possible to change line-height from there.</li>
<li>When a paragraph style is removed under Menu>Edit>Paragraph styles, it remains available under Properties>Style (Confusing because there is no way to check or correct these styles; they do not exist anymore. Or do they?)</li>
<li>'No styles' produces a different effect every time. It should simply REMOVE ALL STYLES and set text to 'default style'</li>
<li>Rendering of underlined text is very poor (line is extremely heavy)</li>
<li>When ALL text is selected in a linked text box, ALL text should be selected... Now sometimes the whole text is made active (Copy) and sometimes not; there is no feedback available to find this out.</li>
<li>'UNDO' does often not work; never for text corrections/changes (in Preview nor Story Editor); also not after Select all>Delete; also not after changing specifications in Properties.</li>
<li>Line spacing can not be changed per paragraph from Properties>Line Spacing (it changes line spacing in other paragraphs around it too)</li>
<li>Outlined texts: not possible to select outline color?</li>
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<title>Bitstream Charter</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/bitstream-charter</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[To my surprise <strong>Bitstream Charter</strong>, one of the few usable Open Source fonts around I know of, is currently published on myfonts.com with the following licence: <a href="http://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense?id=315">http://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense?id=315</a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/noMod.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/noMod.thumbnail.jpg" alt="no modifications" /></a>
<a href="http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/">Florian Cramer</a> explains what is really going on:
<blockquote>"That's true, but the license change refers to a newer version of Bitstream Charter. A copyright owner of a work is free to change the licensing terms any time, either rendering a formely free work proprietary or vice versa. But a license change can never be retroactive, i.e. it can't affect the licensing terms of a previously released version of the same work. (Same happened to SSH for example: The original SSH continues to be developed as proprietary software, whereas OpenSSH - included among others in Mac OS X and Linux - was developed on the basis of an older, free version of the original SSH package.)
An older version of Bitstream Charter was donated to the X Window system and continues to be available under the extremely liberal MIT/X11 license. In Debian and Ubuntu, the font is part of the package "xfonts-scalable" which is in the fully free standard distribution.
(...)
The "<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium&_sc=1">Gentium</a>" font is another interesting typeface that just has switched to a free license. However, the license is still under review by Debian. It's a classicist font that looks more conservative than Charter, but it offers a greater number of international glyphs."</blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Benct Philip Jonsson]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[So what *is* the deal? The version of Bitstream Charter found at TUG and bundled with X11 can (still) be used as the basis for derivative works provided the copyright notice is included and the derivative work is made public under a different name? Does this apply regardless of which country the maker of the derivative work resides in/is a citizen of?]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author_email>femke@constantvzw.org</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_author_IP>78.29.210.207</wp:comment_author_IP>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA["You are hereby granted permission under all Bitstream propriety rights to use, copy, modify, sublicense, sell, and redistribute the 4 Bitstream Charter (r) Type 1 outline fonts and the 4 Courier Type 1 outline fonts for any purpose and without restriction; provided, that this notice is left intact on all copies of such fonts and that Bitstream's trademark is acknowledged as shown below on all unmodified copies of the 4 Charter Type 1 fonts."
So, I guess the answer is: yes!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/gentium</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[[If you consider using Gentium, check <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=54">The politics of typography</a>]
<img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/Gentium.png" alt="gentium font" />
"Gentium was driven by the need for a free, attractive, legible, high-quality font for extended Latin (and Greek and Cyrillic) use. Nothing else was available that was suitable for publishing use, so I decided to give it a try." (from: <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_interview">interview with Victor Gaultney</a>, designer of Gentium)]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/woven-silk-pyjamas-exchanged-for-blue-quartz</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Instead of using the usual <em>The Quick Brown Fox jumped over the lazy dog</em>, this rather absurd text is set as default in Scribus Font Preview:
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I wonder who decided to use this particular sentence, and why?
Alternative <em>pangrams</em> to choose from: <a href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/pangrams.htm">http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/pangrams.htm</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Lecture at <a href="http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/floss/">Freestyle - FLOSS In Design</a>, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam</strong>
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<em>During my 6 year freelance graphic design practice and 4 years study I gradually became aware of working methods in the general sense. In every aspect of my practice working structures developed, some are critically looked at, some are educated and some seemed to be accepted as they seemed to be litrally connected with my work. One of these structures I immediately accepted, is software because of their seemingly neutral qualities used for each design-solution. But did during these 10 years my work become more dependent on the possilities as presented through the programms?</em>
<em>I was asked by Matthew Fuller to design the leaflet for this seminar using only open source software. As I didn't have any experience with open source software and I needed to use a Linux computer on the Piet Zwart Institute I made before I started two descisions:
- the maximum amount of time I could spent on the design was 24 hours
- I'd keep two diaries, a formal and an emotional one. The formal one was the recording of events and the emotional one the recording of my thoughts (as a frustration/happiness index).
The following text is the offspin of these two diaries.</em>
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<strong>24H OF OPEN SOURCE</strong>
actors:
Roger Teeuwen, graphic designer; first experience with open source software
Matthew Fuller, course director Piet Zwart Institute
Femke Snelting, curriculum an research development Piet Zwart Institute
Calum Selkrik (Cal), systems administrator Piet Zwart Institute
Michael Murtaugh, mentor Piet Zwart Institute
Todd Matsumoto, student Piet Zwart Institute
<strong><em>31 march 2004</em></strong>
11.00
<em>Calum set me up, made an user account on a linux computer.
I'm started with three open source programms:
The Gimp (alternative Adobe Photoshop),
Scribus (alternative QuarkXpress) and
Sodipodi (alternative Adobe Illustrator)</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/1.jpg" border="0" alt="1.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
12.45
<em>Talked with Femke about the difference between open source and proprietary (copyright+), that new functions and opening the program language are the most potential area's. For example dreamweaver (which is not open source); connection of visual and code, in this programm the possibility exists to use ór a visual-based way ór a code-based of developing a site. As a user you can switch between the two.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/2floss.jpg" border="0" alt="2floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
13.11
<em>So language and definition are essential in programme development. But why base the program you are developing on existing software rather than think about ways to redefine workspace or software alltogether? If the code is visible during the time you are using software the possibility to change and experiment appears. The connection between language, code and form becomes more explicit and therefor the user is more aware of the possibilities ánd more aware of the way his or her actions are defined through software.</em>
13.15
<em>Scribus is really inlogical when you are used to work with xpress. There is a disconnection between textinput and the textfield, but only when creating a textfield, after doing this it's defined and you can change and activate the field.
A pdf writer seems to be incorperated, so publishing should be possible. This is one of my biggest concerns as a graphic designer!</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/3floss.jpg" border="0" alt="3floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
13.24
<em>Found a mail when doing some research which seems to be the start of the development of 'The Gimp'.</em>
Date: july 29th 1995
Suppose someone decided to write a graphical image manipulation program (akin to photoshop). Out of curiousity (and maybe something else), I have 2 questions:
What kind of features should it have? (tools, selections, filters, etc.)
What file formats should it support? (jpeg, gif, tiff, etc.)
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/4floss.jpg" border="0" alt="4floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
13.42
<em>In the Gimp there is an option to write scripts and to incorperate them in the programme!
Computer litracy demands a new way of reading, the language is sometimes so specific and needs so much knowledge it's hard to find an answer for the question you formulated!</em>
13.53
<em>Need the the open source user manual for Scribus! The user manual isn't functioning!</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/5floss.jpg" border="0" alt="5floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
13.58
<em>During some kerning actions in Scribus the programm crashed! Of course I didn't save my document! </em>
14.03
<em>Selecting a text in Scribus really takes a while, and it feels unstable!</em>
15.35
<em>Imported my first picture in Scribus, also feels unstable!</em>
15.38
<em>Switching to Sodipodi, really looks like a stripped version of Adobe Illustrator: the functions and interface resemble. Why are visual elements not included when developing open source software? Every programme looks like a old copy of Microsoft Word.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/6floss.jpg" border="0" alt="6floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
15.49
<em>I'm actually considering to use paper again to write idea's down!
This work-enviroment feels so new and so inefficient!</em>
15.59
<em>What is software? A collection of definitions and functions which control your behaviour and actions? Or a way of structuring and capturing ideas?
What should software be?</em>
16.11
<em>Switching to The Gimp. </em>
16.30
<em>Made my first collage, an open source collected image.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/7floss.jpg" border="0" alt="7floss.jpg" width="400" height="317" />
16.45
<em>Thinking about the way software is presented when purchasing. Could there be some sort of a scedule or map which explains why open source is a legible option? As a visualisation of the pro's and con's of open source.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/8floss.jpg" border="0" alt="8floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
16.58
<em>Needed Cal's help to print a document from Scribus.
Printed at 17.21, turned out you need to make a pdf from the document and than run GGV PostScript Viewer and print from this application.
So much trouble to print a document. Intresting though that Cal thought the document (which was only a test) had a meaning and was a design! If you need to put a lot of effort in making a print you seem to need a reward!</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/9floss.jpg" border="0" alt="9floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
17.31
<em>The Gimp crashed. Lost an schematic on how open source could be visualised! The programme name has (unstable) behind it, this is correct!</em>
17.45
<em>Partially remade the lost image, this is a way of learning a program!
(not an appealing one though)</em>
17.45
<em>Back to Sodipodi and Scribus to remake the Gimp pattern as a test. It seems patterns and structures aren't as easy to create as in Adobe Illustrator or even Quarkxpress! A lot of features which I use a lot are ór really hidden ór not present.</em>
17.54
<em>Sodipodi crashed when attempting to step and repeat.
So easy and so complicated!</em>
18.06
<em>I start to feel a connection with The Gimp, maybe because I get tired or maybe because it's the only application so far in which I'm succesful in my attempt to create a image...
I do get constantly confronted with the different way of functionality.
Got the feeling I could even be more efficient in Texteditor (Macintosh) than in all open source software combined! At least in terms of speed and meaning!</em>
<em>Definitions of my existing work-enviroment:
Proposal for a action based work-enviroment:
Q: what do you want to do during this session?
are you going to use text?
what kind of typographic elements do you need?
are you going to use images?
are you going to use forms?
pixel?
vector?
what would you like for a color today?
what kind of sound would you like to hear?
do you need a source of information?
if yes
what kind of subject are you interested in?
repeat answer if you have multiple intrests</em>
<em>Typographic:
what kind of typefaces do you need?
do you want to choose from a database?
if yes: schreef or schreefloos, postscript or truetype
what kind of sizes are you going to use?</em>
14 april 2004
12.18
<em>Cal helped me getting started.</em>
12.19
<em>Decided I'd focus on Scribus to design the leaflet because it's closed source rival Quarkxpress is the programme I use the most often. </em>
12.38
<em>Can't find scribus, need Cal.</em>
13.06
<em>Using terminal to start scribus (instructions cal).</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/10floss.jpg" border="0" alt="10floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
13.45
<em>Talked with Matthew about the time schedule, he suggested I'd finish the design today. I'll start with the information side first and concentrate on the typography!</em>
13.54
<em>Installed bitstream vera, one of the only open source typefaces I could find.</em>
14.12
<em>Can't seem to find a&u in scribus, seems no typographic subtilities are possible. Why the same typographic lack of possibilities as in Microsoft Word? Unbelievable that the 'alternative programme' isn't precise in the key element of a dtp programme, typographic refinement!</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/11floss.jpg" border="0" alt="11floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
14.15
<em>Interesting, I can make buttons in scribus which allow me to import or use other actions when activating. Could be a very interesting automatisation for correcting large amounts of texts! This is an example of a functionality which I hope(d) to find more often when using 'alternative' software.</em>
14.45
<em>Trying to link two textboxes. I figured out the difference between active and passive text boxes but the actual linking doesn't work (annotation properties)!</em>
14.55
<em>I actually think a programme like Scribus is much closer to a writer (programmer, etc.) than a designer, much more litrally a text-editor. It looks it's more the other way around, thinking through content about the format. </em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/12floss.jpg" border="0" alt="12floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
15.03
<em>Because of the last statement I suddenly feel I understand the software more, and I'm more and more looking for functions which I use a lot in Xpress in Scribus and I'm much more succesful is my quest!</em>
15.16
<em>Are there connections or explanations possible which emphasise the 'cross-influence' between the different programms, so open and closed source combined? As a translation of the best of both worlds, the user specific elements of the closed source ánd the idea's and possibilities of open source.</em>
16.13
<em>Matthew suggests I should also think about the programmer/user relation (reacting on programme/programme and profession/crossover relations).</em>
16.48
<em>Trying to print the document, no luck, need Cal.
Also found out that when exporting to pdf there is a fontproblem.
Why is there always a problem with printing? Doesn't give me confidence for the final printing of the leaflet!</em>
17.07
<em>Pdf works, printing is possible.
But it's impossible to print a different paper size than A4!</em>
17.10
<em>Talked with Cal about open en closed source programmedefinition-combinations, using his specific knowledge and using freshmeat.net</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/13floss.jpg" border="0" alt="13floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
18.15
<em>Talked with Femke about the combinations and concluded combinations between writer, programmer, artist, designer should be more self-explanitory.</em>
In the evening I tried to make combinations with 4 definitions. I ended with 12 programme-combinations and 12 definition-combinations.
15 april 2004
9.29
<em>Starting up.</em>
9.42
<em>Continued working on definition-combinations.
I've got two sets of definitions, programms and users.
How can I combine these and make sure it's readable ánd on the other hand stress the difference in meaning?</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/14floss.jpg" border="0" alt="14floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
9.46
<em>I've got two sets of 12 combinations, the trick is now how to make the difference between programms and user-definitions visible.</em>
10.10
<em>Talked with Todd about the concept of the flyer and tested if the combinations were readable, and they were! The programms were much easier than the users but I think they should function as the bridge between the two.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/15floss.jpg" border="0" alt="15floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
11.11
<em>Finished with both sides, need a print now.</em>
11.15
<em>When I export the document to pdf or postscript file the linked textboxes dissapear and gradients turn upside down! This is a reason not to use Scribus, really bad for you're confidence when making a 300 pages book if you know texts can dissapear and things can change!</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/16floss.jpg" border="0" alt="16floss.jpg" width="400" height="266" />
11.17
<em>Cal suggested that I should save the file as a postscript document and than use the viewer to check and print.</em>
11.35
<em>Cal updated Scribus in an attempt to solve the problem, have to wait a few minutes until its compiled and I can test it.</em>
12.05
<em>Seems linked textboxes are the problem, so i'll make them by hand, seperated!
Which is a strange job, compare it to use typograpy in photoshop. I recognise this with second year students which I teach. The students without experience also use the programme they know best to do everything, even if the programme is not made for it.</em>
12.13
<em>Scribus isn't made for typograpy that's for sure, when I printed the document you immediately see a sort of 'Microsoft Word' feel. This lack of specific quality is problematic if it's aim is to be an alternative for dtp programms which do have these qualities.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/17floss.jpg" border="0" alt="17floss.jpg" width="400" height="271" />
20 april 2004
11.30
<em>Today is the last day of the open source leaflet project. A few things remain to do, the corrections, the logo's and the final proof.
I'm actually getting more and more used to Scribus, or am I getting sentimental?</em>
11.55
<em>Finished the corrections and scribus crashes!</em>
11.56
<em>Started again with the corrections.</em>
12.35
<em>Finished the corrections for the second time, but I can't finish the leaflet today because of a missing logo.</em>
21 april 2004
11.45
<em>Final corrections and importing the last logo.</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/18floss.jpg" border="0" alt="18floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
11.55
<em>Printing problem, the logo's seem to change into black squares when printing, they are visible on screen?!
Maybe the problem is in the image boxes?
Printing without image boxes.
No change
Maybe the problem is in the proportional scaling which I turned on?
Printing with proportional scaling turned off.
No change
Maybe the problem is in scaling in general?
Printing without scaled images.
No change
Maybe the problem is in textrunaround?
Printing with textrunaround turned off.
No change
Maybe the problem is in the file format?
Yes, there is a problem importing tiff, when using eps the problem is solved! Another Scribus mistery!</em>
12.35
<em>Printing final flyer, doing some last minute detailing.</em>
12.42
<em>Mailing the pdf to richard (V2_) and now cross my fingers that the printer can cope with the document!</em>
22 april 2004
<em>What I was afraid for becomes reality. When the printer test-prints the document a lot of problems appear: spaces become squares, numbers, points, comma's, dashes etc. dissapear!</em>
Following a transcription of the e-mail contact between myself and Jasper, responsible for prepress at the printer.
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/19floss.jpg" border="0" alt="19floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
__________________________________________________________________
From: Roger Teeuwen
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 14:47 PM
To: Jasper de Koster
Subject: Op verzoek van V2_
<>
Dag Jasper,
Hierbij opnieuw de pdf, hopelijk gaat het nu goed.
Als ik hier print gaat alles ok!
Groet en succes, Roger
<em>april 22 14:47
Hi Jasper,
Attached again the pdf, hopefully it will work now!
When I print in my studio everything looks ok?!
Regards Roger</em>
_________________________________________________________________
On 22-04-2004 15:25, "Jasper de Koster" wrote:>
Hoi Roger
Nee, dit gaat niet goed. Het blijven vierkantjes, alle spaties. Via welk
programma heb je dit gedistilleerd?
Pagina 1 gaat wel goed, overigens. Kun je het omzetten naar
lettercontouren
in
illustrator?
groet, jasper
<em>april 22 15:25
Hi Roger
No this doesn't work either. The spaces remain squares, áll spaces.
Which programm did you use to destilate this?
Page number one is ok.
Can you convert the document to Illustrator and use lettercontours?
Regards Jasper</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/20floss.jpg" border="0" alt="20floss.jpg" width="400" height="300" />
__________________________________________________________________
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From: Roger Teeuwen
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 15:38 PM
To: Jasper de Koster
Subject: Re: Op verzoek van V2_
Wat ik trouwens niet begrijp is dat als ik bij mij op mijn laserprinter
print alles helemaal goed gaat?! Beschadigd het document tijdens mailen?
Print jij gewoon of draai je direct een film uit?
Gr Roger
<em>april 22 15:38
Hi Jasper,
What I don't understand is that when I print the document on my laserprinter at 1200 dpi everything looks ok. Does the document get damaged during mail? Do you print paper or directly to film?
Regards Roger</em>
__________________________________________________________________
On 22-04-2004 16:19, "Jasper de Koster" wrote:
Hoi Roger
Misschien print jij niet via een laserprinter of belichter? Ik heb dit
probleem nog nooit eerder gehad. Zowel op film als op onze laserbelichter
worden alle spaties vierkantjes. De asci code van het spatieteken in Linux
is
kennelijk een vierkantje in postscript level 2.
Ik probeer photoshop wel als deze pdf niet lukt.
groet, jasper
<em>april 22 16:19
Hi Roger,
Maybe you don't print using a laserprinter or a film-exposer?
I've never had this problem before. In both the laserprinter and the film-exposer I get the same errors. The asci code for a space on a Linux is appearently a square in postscript level 2.
I'll try photoshop if this pdf doesn't work.
Regards Jasper</em>
__________________________________________________________________
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From: Roger Teeuwen
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 16:35 PM
To: Jasper de Koster
Subject: Re: Op verzoek van V2_
Hi Jasper,
Toch wel, hp laserwriter 5000 op 1200 dpi geeft geen probleem hier!?
Heel erg vreemd...
Hoe zit het met kwaliteitsverlies als je het photoshopbestand gebruikt?
Gr Roger
<em>april 22 16:35
Hi Jasper,
I use an hp laserwriter 5000 on 1200 dpi and I don't get any problems here?!
Really strange....
How is the qualityloss when using a photoshop rastering?
Regards Roger</em>
__________________________________________________________________
On 22-04-2004 17:59, "Jasper de Koster" wrote:
Hi Roger
Ik ben er nu uit. Ik maak een combinatie van de beste elementen uit de
opties.
De logo's uit de eerstaangeleverde PDF, het kopje uit het Tiff bestand, de
tekst uit een PDF bestand, dat ik heb gemaakt door het originele PDF bestand
als PS te bewaren en opnieuw te distillen.
De fout ligt kennelijk in jouw distiller, want opnieuw gedistilleerd
verdwijnen de vierkantjes (maar helaas ook de datum en de cijfers).
gecompliceerd, dus
Onderstaand "monster van frankenstein" PDF komt bij mij netjes uit de
printer.
En ook (hoogstwaarschijnlijk) mooi op film.
groet, jasper
<
><em>april 22 17:59
Hi Roger,</em>
<em>I've got the solution. I'll make a combination between the best of both options.
I'll use the logo's from the pdf, the head from the tiff, the text from a pdf file which I made trough saving the original pdf file as an ps file and than destilling it again.</em>
<em>I think the error is in you're destiller, because when I re-destille you're file the squares dissapear (unfortunately also the numers).</em>
<em>So pretty complicated.</em>
<em>The 'monster of Frankenstein'-pdf on the bottom does work on my printer and problably also on film.</em>
<em>Regards Jasper</em>
trycombipdfandTiff.pdf
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/21floss.jpg" border="0" alt="21floss.jpg" width="400" height="550" />
__________________________________________________________________
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From: Roger Teeuwen
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 18:21 PM
To: Jasper de Koster
Subject: Re: Op verzoek van V2_
Hi Jasper,
Ingewikkeld! En nog een probleem, in de magenta teksten op de tweede pagina
onderaan (sprekers en colophon) valt een en ander weg (leestekens en
cijfers!). Vergelijk met tif.
Helpt het voor een betere kwaliteit als ik je een tiff op 600 dpi stuur?
Dus nog niet ok!
Groet Roger
<em>april 22 18:21</em>
<em>Hi Jasper,
Complicated! And another problem, in the magenta text on the second page at the bottom (speakers and colophon) information is lost (numbers and so on). Compare to the tiff.
Does it help for the quality if I send you a tiff on 600 dpi?
So still not ok!
Regards Roger
</em>
__________________________________________________________________
On 22-04-2004 18:35, "Jasper de Koster" wrote:
Hoi Roger
Oei, wat een klus
Ik denk dat het niet veel uitmaakt. Het blijven gerasterde letters op die
manier.
Ik ga wel voor 70 lijns tiff die je eerder gestuurd hebt.
Of ik gebruik voor sprekers en colophon de tiff, net als bij de tekst
bovenaan.
Tenzij jij nog een ander soort PDF kunt aanleveren...
groet, jasper
<em>april 22 18:35
Hi Roger,</em>
<em>My god what a project!</em>
<em>I don't think it will make a difference. The letters will stay rasterised!
I'll use the 70 lines tiff you sent before.
Or I'll use the tiff for the colophon and speakers, just as the text on the upper side.</em>
<em>Unless you can deliver me another pdf...</em>
<em>Regards Jasper</em>
<img src="http://www.rogerteeuwen.nl/weblog3/archives/22floss.jpg" border="0" alt="22floss.jpg" width="400" height="550" />
__________________________________________________________________
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From: Roger Teeuwen
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 19:08 PM
To: Jasper de Koster
Subject: Re: Op verzoek van V2_
Nee, een ander soort pdf gaat mij niet meer lukken.
Hoeveel minder van kwaliteit zijn gerasterde letters?
Volgens mij moet jij beslissen of je het bestand verder gaat plakken en
knippen, wat het beste resultaat is.
Laat even weten waar je uiteindelijk voor gaat.
Gr Roger
<em>april 22 19:08</em>
<em>No, I can't deliver you another pdf.
How much does the quality decrease if the letters are rasterised?
I think you have to decide if you'll use the 'collage' file or the tiff, which one the best result is.
Let me know which you will use.
Regards Roger</em>
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Van: Jasper@Tripiti.nl
Onderwerp: RE: Op verzoek van V2_
Datum: 23 april 2004 9:13:46 GMT+02:00
Aan: rtgo@xs4all.nl
Ik ga dan voor de Tiff versie, omdat ik geen vertrouwen heb in de PDF. Er kunnen cijfers en interpunctie zijn weggevallen of veranderd. Dit risico wil ik niet lopen.
Je kunt wel nog films controleren als je wilt, we drukken vanmiddag.
groet, jasper
<em>april 23 9:13
Ok, I'll use the tiff, because I lost all my faith in the pdf. Numbers or spaces can dissapear or are changed. I don't want to risk this.
You can come and check the films if you want to, we'll print this afternoon.</em>
<em>Regards, Jasper</em>
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<em>So in the end, despite the efforts of the printer, the open source programme 'Scribus' was unsuccesful in accomplishing one of it's main goals. Beïng an altenative for existing dtp-programms such as Quarkxpress or Indesign. As a designer I need to be sure that the document I create is printable, if it isn't I can't use it as a tool.</em>
<em>Through using open source software I did rethink the tools I use and the enviroment and work structures which are created by these tools. And I think this is an important issue which is crucial for all designers, artists etc. So I think one of the main goals of open source software development should be to make the programms formally usable, so designers, writers, artists will start using them.</em>
<em>On the frontside of the leaflet I stress the combinations of different positions. The different positions become more and more interrelated and I think the real gain in development will be in exploring these combinations. So let's start thinking about the way a designer, writer, artist and programmer can contribute together from each specific perspective and knowledge to the development of the software.</em>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Really interesting. Of course, it's a real (Femke's paradign) 'design with constrains' but it also talk very precisely about design decisions when software is not helping anymore. The slow and painfull way make possible for every step to be described, like a normal skillful work in a fluent software but decomposed in slow motion. I think every designer can recognize himself in that erratic journey.
(Waiting in an airport for the level of smogness to lower a bit, the plane has already proceed with two attempts to land without success. Even if the situation is inconvenient, always astonished to see so much people shouting, really not willing to accept that the technique can not *always* smooth natural movements. Maybe a bit like when a software resist!)
(Using that free time to finally read all the posts unread from this blog!)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<em>Poster done with Inkscape, the context is the visit of Bob Stein at the Jan Van Eyck Academie</em>
Thursday 23 February, 15:00
The Jan Van Eyck Academie
kindly invites you to:
<strong>The Tomorrow Book</strong>
Robert Stein presentation]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Open Source Font in True Type format.
Broodthaers font will appear as <em>Mallarme</em> in the font list.
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[On <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/">http://www.spreadfirefox.com/</a> Firefox "Calls All Firefox Fans" to work on posters, leaflets, e-cards, websites and videoclips in an attempt take more market share away from Internet Explorer. One of their most popular campaigns I've posted here, because it replicates <em>so</em> many cliches about women and computers, that it makes me seriously doubt this "community" approach:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/femfox.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_femfox.jpg" width="187" height="250" alt="Femfox" title="Femfox" /></a>
<a href="http://www.femfox.com">http://www.femfox.com</a>
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On fora and blogs I find numerous people discussing whether this is the right campaign for Firefox (at least only partially busy asking if targeting men more than women is actually helpful, and whether it's possibly "pornographic" character would harm the American "market").
Funny alternatives to headless women in lace start to circulated too:
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<em>[Firefox blocks unwanted pop-ups]</em>
But still... do-it-ourselve publicity using conventional marketing strategies as the model and measure of success? Why is it so hard, after you have reinvented the software, to reinvent software marketing too?]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Linux Libertine font project</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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The Libertine family font contains around 1500 "western" caracters among which cyrillic, greek, turkish and so on. The font looks classical, between Baskerville and Caslon style. The general impression is a contemporary looking 19th century font. Hints are good looking above 8 points, and is comfortable on screen. Good typography seems to be possible using it.
<em>Letters and fonts are two things in one: On the one hand they are basic elements of communication and fundaments of our culture, on the other hand they are cultural goods and artcraft.
You are able to see just the first aspect, but when it comes to software you'll see those copyrights and patents even on the most elementary fonts. We want to give you an alternative: This is why we founded The Libertine Open Fonts Project.</em>
<a title="libertine font" href="http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/alpha-font</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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Most amazing font so far, the Alphabetum font, for ancient languages. It is now possible to compose text with languages that disappeared 5000 years ago. I have to say all my respect for such a nice and usefull work! Thanks from university researchers that had to redraw all archeologic inscriptions found on sites. Now those texts can circulates.
<em> Juan-José Marcos' <a href="http://guindo.cnice.mecd.es/%7Ejmag0042/alphaeng.html"> Alphabetum font </a> is a large Unicode font covering more than 4000 characters in the most recent version. Although the full font is not free, costing €15 for individual registration, a demo version of the font lacking about 500 glyphs present in the full font can be downloaded for free. Coverage is provided for classic and medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Old Italic-Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene-Gothic, Iberian, Celtiberian, old and middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runic, Ogham, Ugaritic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Linear B, Cypriot, Aegean numbers, old and medieval Nordic.</em>
<a target="_blank" title="link to alpha font" href="http://guindo.cnice.mecd.es/~jmag0042/alphaeng.html">http://guindo.cnice.mecd.es/~jmag0042/alphaeng.html</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Femke]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Not only cross language borders (like Gentium), but travel in time as well!
Could you include a link to the license on Alphabetum? On Marcos' website I cannot find a mention that the sources are open and/or whether you could re-distribute this font.
Thanks!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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The SIL-OFL is a free license specifically developed for (multi-lingual) fonts. These are the four freedoms guaranteed through the Open Font License (similar to other Free licenses):
<em>* <strong>Use</strong>: the freedom to use font software for any purpose. (freedom 0)
* <strong>Study and adaptation</strong>: the freedom to study how font software works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access and rights to the source code is a precondition for this.
* <strong>Redistribution</strong>: the freedom to redistribute copies of the font software so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* <strong>Improvement and redistribution of modifications</strong>: the freedom to improve the font software and release your improvements (freedom 3), so that the community benefits. Access and rights to the source code is a precondition for this.</em>
Applying an Open License to your font is made easy with the Open Font License. See this <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL-FAQ_web">FAQ</a> to find out how it works.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Note to self: there is no mention of what the acronym SIL actually means on http://www.sil.org (the organisation developing the OFL), and we were surprised to find that it means Summer Institute of Linguistics and is actually a Christian organisation promoting bible translations because "no language is insignificant". Wikipedias article on SIL is considered to be "not neutral" but find some more juicy details there.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Andrew Charles]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[The Atlantic Monthly ran an article on SIL some years ago. SIL is a missionary organisation focusing on providing bible translations in the world's least used languages (as Femke quotes "no language is insignificant"). AM reported that SIL is widely respected by linguists for the quality of their work and for documenting and preserving many endangered languages, but hated by anthropologists for their role in destroying other aspects of indigenous culture (particularly religion). SIL takes linguistics seriously, contributing greatly to linguistic scholarship and developing software for the documentation and translation of languages. Font development has been a natural out-growth of this work, as has co-operation with UNESCO's Initiative B@bel in the development of multi-lingual software.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>The politics of typography</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The open source font <strong>Gentium</strong> and <strong>The SIL Open Font License</strong> are both developed and distributed by <a href="http://www.sil.org">S.I.L.</a>, also known as The Summer Institute for Linguistics, apparently a subsidiary of the <a href="http://www.wicliffe.org">Wicliffe Bible Translators</a>. S.I.L. has developed large-scale ethno-linguistic research projects such as <a href="http://www.ethnologue.org">http://www.ethnologue.org</a>, an attempt to map all indigenous languages of the world. The S.I.L. site does not give much information about the protestant character of it's mission, so we had to look for it somewhere else. Marcio Ferreira da Silva (Universidade de Sao Paulo) about the activities of S.I.L. in Brazil:
<blockquote>"S.I.L.'s objectives are no different from those of any other traditional mission: the conversion of the indians and the saving of their souls. Their methods, however, are in some ways peculiar, incorporating a bilingual educational model which is an integral part of their evangelical strategy."</blockquote>
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"The judicial and administrative references from the beginning of the seventies should therefore be interpreted as the coming together of the religiously dogmatic educational model idealized by S.I.L. and the indigenous framework put forward by the military regime. In the Indian Statute - a law passed in 1973 -, for example, there is explicit reference to teaching reading and writing "in the language of the group to which they belong", but nothing regarding the of official recognition of these languages as means of communication with these ethnically different minorities (...) Overall, the teaching of communication skills in native language, included in law in the seventies, is born of a purely instrumental missionary practice."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/fall1999/10-28-99-ferreiradasilva/">http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/fall1999/10-28-99-ferreiradasilva/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/ubuntu-font.png" alt="Ubuntu-title" />
The "user-friendly" distribution Ubuntu is distributing its font under the LGPL. I have not heard the same from other distributions. It seems that Redhat or Novell do not want to share their corporate identity with the rest of us. Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth, who sold his company Thawte(a company that issues security certificates) to become the first African citizen in space, supports free software. He understands the free in <em>free software</em> as in <em>freedom</em> but also as in <em>free beer</em> since the distribution is supposed to be always <em>free of charge</em>.
<blockquote>The team behind Ubuntu makes the following public commitment to its users:
*Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.
*Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from hundreds of companies around the world. Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. Each release is supported with free security updates and fixes for at least 18 months.
*Ubuntu will include the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable by as many people as possible. We collaborate as widely as possible on bug fixing and code sharing.
*Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.</blockquote>
Although the <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/include/circle-510.png">community marketing</a> of Ubuntu is sometimes getting on my nerves, a panorama of the tools for open publishing would be incomplete without <a href="http://debuntu.free.fr/share/ubuntu-title.ttf">Ubuntu-title.ttf</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[more about ubuntu-title typeface:
http://www.ubuntu-art.org/content/show.php/UbuntuTitle+-+more+weights?content=84788]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>A double spread in scribus</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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Thanks to Philip May and Perl5 software that generated text, it was possible to realise a double spread of a "Babels book". Text is composed of the combinatory of the 26 letters of the alphabet, dot, comma and space, as described in <em>Library of Babel</em>, in <em>Fictions</em> Borges book. Those books are 410 page, 40 lines per page and 80 character per line. Capitals were added in the script. Those 2 pages were then set with Scribus.
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Obviously, scribus needs a strong amelioration of its ergonomy. It took something like 3 hours to compose those 2 pages.
Here is a Scribus Bug Report, encounted during the exercice:
<ul> - No constrain line drawing (like with shift on other softs).
- No constrain movement when moving blocs.
- Leading not available in text box.
- Bloc always move a bit when selected.
- No hand to navigate in the document.
- in the Format size selection, custom format should appear first instead of last.
- Selection above/under object too complicated.
- annoying system of magnifying
- No indicator "+" / "-" when magnifying.
- When magnifying, view is always set in the upper left corner of the document.
- In Text bloc
- Impossibility to jump from one letter to another in the text box with arrows keys.
- No undo command</ul>
among other...
But the pdf generator seems to work ok so far, it was very easy to export.]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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(c) 2001 http://www.orgdot.com: you can copy, use, modify and distribute this code and/or artwork for educational, commercial or recreational use.<!--more-->
All we ask is that you include this copyright notice in the material you distribute. for compiled code, you will need to make accessible this copyright notice somewhere in the distribution, and/or via a link on the web. there are several reasons for this caveat - the most important being that open source is based on one main principle: what you find and use, others should also have access to. don't keep it to yourself!
this software is provided by the author and contributors "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. in no event shall the author or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.]]></content:encoded>
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<a href="http://www.dustismo.com/">http://www.dustismo.com/</a>
Domestic Manners, by Dustin Norlander.
"This font is basically my handwritting. Why anyone would want to use my crappy handwritting for anything, I can't say. It would be a good way to forge a note from me I guess. Anyway, use it for whatever you want, its released under the GPL so change it if you need to. The name come from the book Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope."
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Dustin Norlander has also released a series of font under the GPL license including Dustismo Roman, a standard serifed roman.
"It contains all the characters you should ever need, accents and special characters. I created this to be used with linux, as there was definitely a lack of quality fonts available for linux. Since then Bitstream released their Vera serif and sans-serif typeface under an open source style license--oh well. I like this one, its good for whatever you need. Released under the GPL so go ahead and include it in your own personal Linux variation."]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[From WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
by Florian Cramer
(p22)
The idea that beauty materializes in numerical proportions according to mathematical laws continues to be popular in scientific and engineering cultures, too. Since the early 1970s, Donald Knuth, widely considered the founder of computer science as an independent academic discipline, published his textbooks under the title <em>The Art of Computer Programming</em>. He understands “art” as the formal beauty and logical elegance of the source code. The software TeX which he wrote to typeset his books correspondingly implements a classicist post-Renaissance typography whose notions of beauty are embedded in Knuth’s algorithms for line spacing and paragraph adjustment. At MIT, Knuth initiated a <em>project God and computers</em> whose results were an exhibition of Bible calligraphies and, in 2001, a book <em>Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About</em>. In this book, Knuth remembers how as a student he read a computer program code that he found “absolutely beautiful. Reading it was just like hearing a symphony.” This was how he “got into software,” teaching it as an art rather than a science. <!--more-->The hacker credo put down by Steven Levy in 1983 that “you can create art and beauty with computers” has its roots in Knuth’s teaching. It ultimately means that a program is not a transparent tool for creating beauty—like, for example, a graphics program—, but that it is beautiful by itself. Both schools, highbrow academic computer science and more underground hacker culture, perpetuate a Pythagorean, classicist understanding of art as formal beauty. This concept blatantly lags behind modern concepts of art. Since romanticism and 20th century art, aesthetic understandings of art were not just about beauty, but included the sublime, grotesque and ugly as well. The same is true, implicitly at least, for the Greek and Roman antiquity whose highest art form, tragedies, were about violence and despair.
Download the text here:
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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Le Tigre, here, is not the translation of a Mac os in french, nor a No-Wave grrrrl band. It's a brand new generalist weekly french magazine that released its first issue 3 days ago. The big thing here is that this mag is entirely set on Scribus, and proove by fact that this FLOSS can be incorporated on a professionnal workflow. The 24 pages magazine took choice of incorporating no ads, and thus depends on the readers.
<a href="http://www.le-tigre.net/">www.le-tigre.net</a>
Articles are described as wide and various, but precise and entertaining, from comment of worldnews to science fiction. More once touched and seen in real!]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Often I have wondered why DTP programmes did not have both an "edit source" view and a "preview mode", so that you could alternate between those two views and apply styles with more rigour if needed.
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You can see why I am so excited about using the Story Editor in Scribus. It feels much closer to marking up HTML, which in turn is familiar to the pre-computer practice of writing type setting instructions.
But looking at a Scribus .sla file in an editor, I realise that typographic markup is completely mixed with character data (how on earth does the story editor manage to pick out the right information!), which might explain why this idea could be obvious in theory but harder to achieve in practice.
Part of the unpredictability of style-behaviour in Scribus (in fact, this is a problem with any text-layout programme I have ever used) I guess has to do with this mixing as I can imagine re-applying styles a few times will result in messy code. It feels quite similar to what happens when applying deprecated markup in NVU or Dreamweaver from the WYSIWYG editor, without cleaning up the source.
Other problems might occur through irregular interpretation of cascading effects, but this is just a guess.
Right now, Styles in Scribus operate way more confused and less sophisticated than even the simplest Cascading Style Sheet does. If Scribus would apply the web standards ethics (separating content from form ;-)), could it be possible to simply edit those styles in a file?
Over the last few years many graphic designers have taught themselves to handle CSS stylesheets with grace, and it would seem logic to apply that logic / these skills to Desk top publishing too.
In this way, Scribus could become more transparent and compatible with other media. Not only through the way it handles its file-formats (import-export), but also through how it connects different practices of design.]]></content:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reporting bugs is frustrating work. I feel pretty stupid when a bug apparently was already reported months ago (was it worth reporting? Am I simply annoying developers by telling them once again something does not work? Should I have spent even more time finding duplicates?), but at the same time it would be worse when it was just me having an idea or experience.
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Anyways, I am really happy to find many versions of the same issue:
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<li><strong>Differential paragraph styles</strong></li>
<li><strong>Cascading styles</strong></li>
<li><strong>Depending paragraph styles</strong></li>
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... it is in the air.
If Scribus could pull that off... it would make Open Source Publishing radically different and exciting.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Xara Xtreme Xbecomes Xopen Xsource.</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Xara Xtreme is a vector based software. It runs under Windows and Linux environment. It is a "crossover" software, means it manages pixels and vectors at the same time.
After 15 years of proprietary software status, Xara is operating a strategical migration to open source. The fact that Adobe purchased Macromedia put the developper in a uncomfortable concurrencial situation.
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Opening the software to GPL is hoped to bring "consolidation" via FLOSS communities, inspired by the succesfull Inkscape model.
The 2 societies are currently in contact to synchronise on a common file format, and to develop a converter which would enable to turn Xara (Xar) into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics - around which Inkscape is constructed). This would give the ability for both sotwares to import and export numbers of other formats as well.
The Mac OSX version is still in development.
<strong>Xara Xtreme on the Mac</strong>
<em>We have a new cross-platform code base, WXWidgets based, that is cross platform C++ and should work on the Mac, but we're short of Mac developers and testers that can help progress this. If you're a Mac developer willing to help us please contact us. Our first stage goal is simply to get a working viewer to the same level as the Linux build.</em>
<a href="http://www.xaraxtreme.org/">www.xaraxtreme.org</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>decodeunicode.org project</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<a href="http://decodeunicode.org">http://decodeunicode.org</a>
<blockquote>Is an independent online-platform for digital type culture, initiated by the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany.
The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users.
The website uses freely available data of the Unicode Standard 4.0.1 © The Unicode Consortium, 1990 – 2003, especially UnicodeData.txt
(Some rights reserved. All texts and images on the website are protected by a Creative Commons License. You may reuse and redistribute them for any purpose other than commercial use.)</blockquote>
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<title>This font is a ripoff, said the Invalidity Division</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>Invalidity Division</em>, sounds like science-fiction, doesn't it? <em>Registered community design</em> is not bad either. Time to start a jargon file...
<blockquote>[...]this time the dispute is over fonts; specifically Segoe, one of the typefaces Microsoft wants to use in Vista <font color="gray">(the new Windows, "bringing clarity to your world")</font>. Microsoft filed its "registered community design" for the font back in January of 2004, paid the required fee, and everything was great—until December.
Just days before the end of 2004, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG sought a "declaration of invalidity" from the Invalidity Division (yes, that is it's real name) of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. As the owner of the Linotype brand, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen claimed that Microsoft's "new" font was a blatant ripoff of Linotype's own Frutiger LT 45 Light, which has been sold by the company for years. [...]
"The typefaces of both designs have the same stroke thickness. The ratio from cap-height to descender height is equal. The proportion of character height to character pitch is identical. The type face in the specimen text does not show any differences."
So they threw Microsoft's application out and ordered the company to pay all the fees incurred by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen.
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Read online: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060404-6517.html">http://arstechnica.com/news.ar...</a>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[bernhard fraling]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[you are already at the second page of web blog in the search results when i type "druckmaschinen" which is the german word for printing machinery. I am justat the beginning to create a web blog called www.fratext.de foccused to the printing machinery business
best regards
bernhard]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/DSC00539.JPG"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_DSC00539.JPG" width="400" height="300" alt="printing on demand" title="printing on demand" /></a><small>Production line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing and binding of <em>The Continuous Present</em></small>
On May 18-19 <em>The Continuous Present</em> was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of <em>The Tomorrows Book</em>, an ongoing investigation into the possible futures of reading, publishing and designing books.
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<li>Independance of thought depends on independance of the codes.</li>
<li>Tomorrows book depends on this independance.</li>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<small><a href="http://www.constantvzw.com">Constant's</a> contribution to <a href="http://www.okno.be/">OknoPublic01</a>, May 26 2006</small>
<tt>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 in connection to each other.</tt>
<tt>But do we use software to think?</tt>
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<tt>My physiotherapist used the following analogy to explain how humans use tools to negotiate the space around their bodies:</tt>
<tt>"If you prepare a sauce..." she said, "and stir it with a wooden spoon... you will be able to feel at which moment exactly the starch starts to burn to the bottom of the pan".</tt>
<tt>A wooden spoon might not be the kind of glamour and glitter a post human cyborg is looking for, but I think it is in this unspectacular way our daily operations with software help to make sense of our environment.</tt>
<tt>It has become our natural habitat. We practice software until we in-corporate its choreography. We make it disappear in the background. A seamless experience. We become one with our extensions.</tt>
<tt>Counter to this magic vanishing, with each possibility opened up by an operating system or software package, the space within which making can take place is circumscribed.</tt>
<tt>Software is never politically neutral, nor are its aesthetics without colour: each product prescribes use, and results in specific forms, sounds and shapes.</tt>
<tt>Software produces culture at the same time as it is produced by culture. It is shaped through and locked into economic models of production and distribution. This is obviously as much true for a wooden spoon as it is for Apple Quicktime Broadcaster but in software this "lock" is apparent in the crudest way possible.
Fortunately no Anti Piracy Police is interested in my kitchen. Nor are the products of my cooking subject to Digital Rights Management. </tt>
<tt>Do You Have The Right Plug-in Installed?
It Looks Like You Are Writing A Letter!
You Have Unused Icons On Your Desktop...
PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING OR USING THE SOFTWARE.</tt>
<tt>Could we understand what software does to our work and working patterns without being able to step away from it? What if our work is not only made with, but also through software? What if our work IS software?</tt>
<tt>Can we think ourselves outside it?</tt>
<tt>------</tt>
<tt>"someone can know how to type but not know how to read the words produced (...) just as someone can be able to read a typescript without knowing how to type" (Katherine Hayles - How We Became Posthuman)</tt>
<tt>Because we want to be both typist and reader, Constant is committed to Open Source Software. Or more precisely: we are interested in the tension between those two positions.</tt>
<tt>Constant is not a community of programmers. We do share a desire to adjust, reinvent, change and examine the instruments we use and we like to create situations which allow for that kind of reflection.</tt>
<tt>Our decision to use and produce Open Source tools is therefore as much political, as it is in line with the nature of our artistic and intellectual interests.</tt>
<tt>As each tool is scripted with use, we very much enjoy to be immersed in a milieu (or in fact: a stockpile of milieus) which emanates collaboration rather than individual authorship, which builds on exchange rather than on exclusivity. A milieu which supports biodiversity; a rich mixture of programmes and approaches.</tt>
<tt>Of course we get frustrated sometimes using Open Source software; one does not always have the time and energy to not know what to expect. But it is a luxury to find other experiences than those we were used to; it offers an opportunity to rethink “user-friendly-ness” to start with. "Usability" might mean something else all together depending on who is using something, and what she is using it for.</tt>
<tt>We are ultimately interested in making differences, glitches, misunderstandings and hick ups productive. Our work is, as much as the software we use and produce, “work in progress” and this means it’s cut-off points are not necessarily concealed.</tt>
<tt>We like to cross boundaries, but we don't want to erase them. We traverse different worlds, we do not make them the same. In fact, we are interested in everything that shows up in the cracks.</tt>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>"instable", mais actuellement utilisée</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The French weekly <em>Le Tigre</em> announces:
<blockquote>This week, we have an article about free softwares in "Le Tigre":
<a href="http://www.le-tigre.net/No11.html">http://www.le-tigre.net/No11.html</a>
There is a "encadré" about Scribus. You can see it there:
<a href="http://rdereel.free.fr/letigre/011/scribus.jpg">http://rdereel.free.fr/letigre/011/scribus.jpg
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 (<a href="http://www.bertholdtypes.com/bq_library/90090.html">Poppl Laudatio Condensed</a>)?
<p><a class="imagelink" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/openlogo-100.jpg" title="openlogo-100.jpg"><img id="image175" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/openlogo-100.jpg" alt="openlogo-100.jpg" /></a></p>
<small>* There is a lot of Freeware around, but hardly any fonts explicitly allow for re-modification or derivative works.</small>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Even more amusing is that the FSF logo is set in Trebuchet - a *Microsoft* font!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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 package does not offer output like CMYK or Postscript. Although a first quick try is not immediately convincing (but this could be because I am not very familiar with the strand of softwares DTPblender is based on), it could be interesting to radically combine web design and page lay-out. More after further testing.
More information and download here: <a href="http://dtpblender.instinctive.de/cms/Main/Home">http://dtpblender.instinctive.de</a>
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<title>How To Print A Booklet In 19 Easy Steps</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 posted on the Scribus Wiki:
<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet">http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet</a>.
To make this recipe, you need to open a <em>terminal</em>, <em>shell</em> or work in the <em>commandline</em>. If you have never done this before, have a look a this tutorial: <a href="http://linuxcommand.org/">http://linuxcommand.org/</a>
You can of course print texts of any length, but folding and stapling more than 12 sheets of paper gets really hard so we suggest making booklets of 48 pages maximum.
The tools mentioned are all available in most software repositories, and can be installed using Ubuntu's Synaptic.
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/Maternal_PoliticsB.pdf"><img title="sample" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_sample.jpg" alt="sample" width="250" height="177" /></a>
<small><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/Maternal_PoliticsB.pdf">Download sample .pdf file</a>; if you simply want to print this document, start the recipe at step 13.
The text used in this example is available here: <a href="http://www.constantvzw.com/cyberf/book/articles.php?pg=art26">http://www.constantvzw.com/cyberf/book...</a>.</small>
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<strong>Ingredients</strong>
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<li>Linux operating system* [Debian / Ubuntu]</li>
<li>Browser [Firefox]</li>
<li>A text available under an open license</li>
<li>xpdf-utils (includes: pdftotext, pdftops, <em>ps2pdf?</em>)</li>
<li>Texteditor [Gedit]</li>
<li>Lay-out software [Scribus 1.3.3.1]</li>
<li>Font [Bitstream Charter]</li>
<li>psutils (includes: psnup, psbook)</li>
<li>Printer</li>
<li>Paper</li>
<li>Stapler</li>
<li>A piece of soft cardboard (side of a box for example)</li>
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<strong>Print A Booklet In 19 Easy Steps</strong>
<ol>
<li>Choose any text that is available under an open license</li>
<li> Download the text to your harddisk in .pdf format or copy the text into a text editor</li>
<li>If you have downloaded a .pdf file, you need to convert the .pdf to a plain text file using the commandline:
<code>~$ pdftotext infile.pdf</code></li>
<li>Clean up the file as much as possible (remove unneccessary white lines, check whether any other corrections need to be made) in a text editor and save the document as .txt</li>
<li>Open <em>Scribus</em> and start a new document with the following options selected: <em>Size: A5</em>, <em>Number of pages: 48</em>, <em>Page Layout: double sided</em> and <em>Automatic Text Frames</em></li>
<li>Import the .txt file in the Automatic Text Frame and do the necessary lay-out; add page numbers etc.</li>
<li>Remove all empty pages so that you end up with a multiple of 4 pages (either 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 or 48 pages).</li>
<li>Save / export the document as .pdf with fonts embedded</li>
<li>Using the commandline, convert the pdf file to postscript:
<code>~$ pdftops -paper match infile.pdf outfile.ps</code></li>
<li>Rearrange the pages so that when printed and folded, each page ends up in the right place (when your booklet has 8 pages, page 1 should be placed opposite of page 8, page 2 opposite of 7 and 4 opposite of 5). <em>n</em> is the amount of pages in your booklet.
<code>~$ psbook -s<em>n</em> infile.ps outfile.ps</code></li>
<li>Arrange two A5 pages next to each other on one A4 sheet (-2 refers to the amount of pages on the A4):
<code>~$ psnup -2 -PA5 infile.ps outfile.ps</code></li>
<li> Convert the document back to .pdf format (This seems a redundant step, but without it I had problems with placing, so...)
<code>~$ ps2pdf infile.ps outfile.pdf</code></li>
<li>Also use the commandline to print first the even pages (<em>myprinter</em> is the name of your printer, <em>n</em> is the amount of copies)
<code> ~$ lpr -P myprinter -o page-set=even -#1 infile.pdf</code></li>
<li>When the even pages are printed, you need to re-arrange the order of the pages so that the first page comes last.</li>
<li>Put the pages upside down back in the printer</li>
<li>Now print the odd pages
<code>~$ lpr -P myprinter -o page-set=odd -#1 infile.pdf</code></li>
<li>Fold the pages from A4 to A5</li>
<li>Fold the stack back open and place it on the piece of cardboard with the cover facing you. Click open your stapler so you can staple the stack in the middle</li>
<li>Gently remove the stack (which is now stuck to the cardboard) and fold the staples back in.</li>
</ol>
<strong>FINISHED!</strong>
<small>*It should work on OSX too, but I have not tested this yet</small>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[harrisson]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>harrisson@swing.be</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2006-06-20 16:22:13</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Tested on mac, under ubuntu ppc - and it seems working fine.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[harrisson]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>une.ombre@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[En français!
Comment imprimer une brochure en 19 étapes.
Le but de cette recette réside dans sa derniere bouchée: réarranger les pages pour pouvoir imprimer facilement de beaux petits livres. Une solution rapide et pas chere consiste a utiliser Abiworld ou OpenOffice pour la mise en page, mais Scribus est necessaire si vous voulez etre un peu précis en typographie.
Cette recette est basé sur le "comment faire" du wiki Scribus
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet
Pour réaliser cette recette, vous aurez besoin du Terminal, Shell, ou travailler en ligne de commande. Si vous n'avez jamais fait cela, jetez un oeil a ce mode d'emploi:
http://linuxcommand.org/
Vous pouvez bien sur imprimer des textes de n'importe quelle longueur, mais le pliage et l'agraphage de document de plus de 12 pages de papier est un peu compliqué. Nous vous suggerons donc de fabriquer des booklets de 48 pages maximum.
Les outils mentionnés sont disponibles sur la plupart des "repositories" de logiciels, et peuvent etre installés facilement grace au Sinaptic de Ubuntu.
Ingrédients:
- un systeme operatoire Linux, comme Ubuntu ou Debian
- un Browser (firefox)
- Un texte disponible en licence libre
- xpdf-utils (contenant pdftotext, pdftops, ps2pdf)
- Texteditor [Gedit]
- Un logiciel de mise en page [Scribus 1.3.3.1]
- une Fonte (bitstream Charter)
- psutils (comprenant psnup, psbook)
- une imprimante
- du papier
- une agrapheuse
- un bout de carton
Réalisation:
1. Prenez un beau texte disponible sous une licence libre.
2. Téléchargez ce texte sur votre disque dur, sous un format .pdf, ou copiez le texte dans un editeur de texte.
3 Si vous avez téléchargé un fichier .pdf, vous aurez besoin de le convertir en format texte en utilisant dans la console la commande:
~$ pdftotext fichieraconvertir.pdf
4 Nettoyez le fichier au maximum (enlevez les ligne vides inutiles, double espaces. Le mieux les corrections sont faites, le plus facile sera la mise en page) dans l'éditeur de texte, et sauvez le document en .txt
5 Lancez Scribus et créz un nouveau document en selectionnant les options suivantes:
taille: a5
nombre de pages: 48
layout: double page
& bloc de texte automatique.
6 Importez le fichier .txt dans le cadre de texte automatique et faites le layout necessaire. Dans Maquette, vous pouvez ajoutez le folio (#).
7 Enlevez les pages non utilisées, en sorte d'obtenir un document dont le nombre de pages est un multiple de 4 (4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 ou 48 pages)
8 Sauvez et exportez le document en format .pdf, avec les polices incorporées.
9 Avec la ligne de commande dans la console, convertissez le fichier pdf en fichier postscript.
~$ pdftops -paper match fichierentrant.pdf fichiersortant.ps
10 Il faut maintenant réarranger les pages pour qu'une fois imprimées et pliées, chaque page soit a la bonne place (quand le booklet a 8 pages, la page 1 doit etre en face de la page 8, la 2 en face de la 7, la 4 en face de la 5). n est le nombre de pages du booklet:
~$ psbook -sn fichierentrant.ps fichiersortant.ps
11 Placez 2 pages A5 l'une a coté de l'autre sur une page A$ (-2 designe le nombre de pages sur le A4)
~$ psnup -2 -PA5 infile.ps outfile.ps
12 Convertissez le document en .pdf (cela parait redondant, mais sans cela nous avons rencontré des probles de placement, alors...)
~$ ps2pdf infile.ps outfile.pdf
13 Utilisez aussi la ligne de commande pour imprimer les pages paires en premier (Monimprimante est le nom de votre imprimante, n est le nombre de pages)
~$ lpr -P monimprimante -o page-set=even -#1 infile.pdf
14 Quand les pages sont imprimées, vous devez ré-arranger l'ordre de celles -ci pour que la premiere page arrive en dernier
15 Placez les pages le dessus-dessous dans l'imprimante.
16 Imprimez les pages impaires
~$ lpr -P monimprimante -o page-set=odd -#1 infile.pdf
17 Pliez les pages de A4 en A5
18 Placez le dos de la brochure ouverte sur le bout de carton, la couverture vers vous. Agraphez au milieu en maintenant l'agrapheuse ouverte
19 Decrochez gentiment la brochure (fixée au carton) et repliez les agraphes vers l'interieur.
Voila!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Till Mossakowski]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>till@informatik.uni-bremen.de</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[If you have a pdf, you can directly start with step 9. Although Scribus is a good tool, it is not related to booklet printing at all. It only happens that the How-to for booklet printing has appeared in the Scribus Wiki.
If you have Acrobat Reader, you can also replace step 9 with
~$ acroread -toPostScript infile.pdf outfile.ps
This often gives better results.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[TRAILER 31 - fri 29 sept -> 2 oct 2007 « UNIDEE in Residence 2007]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_date>2007-09-24 10:48:10</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] Recipy: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=90 [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Niklas]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nhulden@saunalahti.fi</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Why not skip some steps and use pdfbook instead?
regards
Niklas]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Femke]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>snelting@geuzen.org</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2008-06-30 09:47:32</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hey An,
After a bit of testing (you need to go all the way to the end; the in-between results are completely wrong)
pdftops -paper match A6.pdf A6.ps
psbook -s24 A6.ps A6book.ps
psnup -4 -pa4 -W105mm -H148mm A6book.ps A6up.ps
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 A6up.ps A6up.pdf
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The final result is unfortunately not what you need; it places two succeeding spreads on one sheet; meaning you still cannot print this minibooklet recto verso. It looks like the latest version of Scribus (1.3.5) has imposition built in, but I don't know whether it can do more than 2 pages imposition.
on continue... :-)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>38738</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[An]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>an@collectifs.net</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2008-06-23 12:51:14</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hi,
It works fine and it is absolutely great!
I have been trying out ways to print on different formats, including A6 and A7. This requires to arrange the pages next to each other AND up and under each other. I tried the psnup commands -W -H and -w -h I found here:
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_psnup.htm
Unfortunately, it does not the job.
I guess it is the combination of arranging 4 or 8 pages on 1 A4 that causes the problem.
Any hints anyone?
Many thanks, An]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Booklet Printing « Computer Magazines]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_author_url>http://dtpscribus.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/booklet-printing/</wp:comment_author_url>
<wp:comment_author_IP>66.135.48.201</wp:comment_author_IP>
<wp:comment_date>2010-03-19 12:59:53</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/how-to-print-a-booklet-in-16-steps [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>45478</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Jose Matoco]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>jlestrot@yahoo.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2010-05-03 18:20:41</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Ive been using word two pages on one paper. The problem is printing the recto verso. use pdf?how?]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Stéphanie]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>stephanie@stdin.fr</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://stdin.fr</wp:comment_author_url>
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<wp:comment_date>2010-10-15 09:30:24</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Maybe you can try PoDoFo impose. It is very simple of use and customizable with scripts.
Basic templates/plans are available here: http://oep-h.com/impose/
I guess you can tweak the A4 booklet plan there to suit your needs.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[acreech]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>acreech2330@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[In linux you can save this bash script and run it. It will automatically complete the steps for you and output the finalized book.
#!/bin/bash
# Check usage
if ($1 == "" || $2 == "" || $1 == "-h" || $1 == "--help") then
echo " "
echo " "
echo "Usage: mkbook name_of_file Number_of_Pages"
echo " command: mkbook newbook.pdf 10"
echo " "
fi
pdftops -paper match $1 1.ps
psbook -s $2 1.ps 2.ps
psnup -2 -PA5 2.ps 3.ps
ps2pdf 3.ps $1_Final.pdf
rm -f 1.ps 2.ps 3.ps]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Printing Party 0.2 at Digitales</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/printing-party-02-at-digitales</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_slingers.JPG" width="450" height="296" alt="slingers" title="slingers" />
At this years' edition of <a href="http://www.stormy-weather.be/digitales-2006/">Digitales</a>, 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.
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After demonstrating the various steps in the process, here's me proudly showing the end result:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/DSC00678.JPG"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_DSC00678.JPG" width="450" height="337" alt="showing the result" title="showing the result" /></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/DSC00677.JPG"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_DSC00677.JPG" width="450" height="337" alt="folding + stapling" title="folding + stapling" /></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/DSC00676.JPG"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_DSC00676.JPG" width="450" height="337" alt="screen" title="screen" /></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/DSC00673.JPG"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_DSC00673.JPG" width="450" height="337" alt="recipe" title="recipe" /></a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Exit Save-As-PDF for Microsoft users?</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/adobe-vs-microsoft</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 "<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx">Save-As-XPS</a>" instead.
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Adobe inc. owns the patents for creating and reading PDF-files, by now one of the most widely used formats to exchange documents between users on different platforms and programmes.
<blockquote>Adobe desires to promote the use of PDF for information interchange among diverse products and applications.
Accordingly, the following patents are licensed on a royalty-free, nonexclusive basis for the term of each patent and for the sole purpose of developing software that produces, consumes, and interprets PDF files that are compliant with the Specification
<small><a href="http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/support/topic_legal_notices.html">http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/support/topic_legal_notices.html</a></small></blockquote>
Adobe does not charge Scribus or Open Office for implementing PDF export in their packages, probably simply because these package do not make money off their product, and also: many day-to-day users might result in additional users of their high-end, and expensive products (Although apparently Adobe does not charge Apple for including this functionality?).
Because Microsoft is making lots of money with Office, and the ability to do PDF export adds to the value of the package, Adobe has tried to make Microsoft (users) pay for this functionality already for a while. But in turn Microsoft simply decided to exclude the feature from their 2007 release.
<blockquote>In that sense, I can see Adobe's side, even though I don't believe that any file format, simply a way of storing someone else's content, should be protected.
<small>(Gregory Pittman, Scribus mailinglist)</small>
</blockquote>
It looks like Adobe will have trouble forcing Microsoft to pay because of Anti-trust laws and exactly because of them not sueing any other free and or open source use of their tool. It does give Microsoft the perfect excuse though, to move on with their own XPS-standard after all.
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/microsoft_adobe_legal_spat/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/05/microsoft_adobe_legal_spat/</a>
<a href="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4509/53/">http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4509/53/</a>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<strong>Typeforge</strong>
<a href="http://www.typeforge.net/cms/">http://www.typeforge.net</a>
<img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_fontforge.jpg" width="350" height="177" alt="fontforge" title="fontforge" />
The <em>Typeforge</em> 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!
<strong>Open Font Library</strong>
<a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">http://openfontlibrary.org/</a>
Based on the same principle as the <a href="http://openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art Library</a>, this project simply aims to bring together copyleft fonts. The project has just started, hence their collection is rather small, but such a repository is so much needed that I think it could grow quickly once people start adding.
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 seems exceptionally generous and has made it its policy to welcome questions on all levels.
Some older and newer threads to watch:
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<strong>Maintaining text with Scribus</strong>
Imagine you could connect your desktop publishing software to a weblog or other content management system? Collaboratively edit, and lay out the results in Scribus? Printing publications "on-demand" from your database? If it would be possible to import and export correct xml files, it would be not just large publishing houses that could do such operations. Gregory Pittman shows his python script frameslist.py, and explains what it is capable of and what not.
<a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-June/thread.html#18471">scribus/2006-June/thread.html#18471</a>
<strong>Scribus in the Art Lab</strong>
The use of open source tools in design education is not evident. Some feel it would deprive students of "real life" experience with "what the industry wants", others think it might make students more independent and self-learning. Tutors report on their motivations, methods and problems.
<a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-April/thread.html#16749">scribus/2006-April/thread.html#16749</a>
<strong>offtopic: microsoft must pay to adobe to include pdf exportcapability</strong>
Sometimes issues related to desk top publishing, but not necessarily to Scribus itself are brought up on the list. This is a good way to learn about the politics of (design-)software. Here is the thread on PDF export troubles between Microsoft and Adobe that I reported on last week:
<a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-June/thread.html#18348">scribus/2006-June/thread.html#18348</a>
<strong>CMYK Processing in open source</strong>
One of the issues that is hard to overcome, and returns time and time again on the list, is the problem of CMYK export. This is not a Scribus issue in itself (color separation of graphic elements is no problem; it is a feature missing from image processing softwares), but is obviously frustrating when you are working with pictures in your document. The reasons why and possible (future) solutions are discussed here:
<a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-March/thread.html#16421">scribus/2006-March/thread.html#16421</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Coming Soon: Print Party</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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Friday July 7 16:00: <strong>Printing Party</strong> at <a href="http://www.quarantaine.biz">Quarantaine</a> (Brussels), with Scribus get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails. More details in a few days!
<small>Find more P s with open content license at:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv">http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv</a>
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<title>Print Party! Join!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a <a href="http://www.quarantaine.biz">Quarantaine</a> pour une bonne Print Party!</strong> 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.
<img id="image100" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/ppfly.thumbnail.png" alt="ppfly.png" height="96" width="68" />
<em>Ou l'on apprendra comment mettre en page, imposer et imprimer un booklet avec des logiciels libres! </em>
On pensait que c'était de la Science-Fiction, mais une fois encore les experts se sont <strong>trompés</strong>: il est possible de faire du graphisme avec du Open Source. C'est en fait assez proche de la cuisine!
<em>Si vous savez faire un gateau, vous saurez faire un livre</em>.
Pour accompagner cette performance, Kate Rich de Bristol fera des cocktails avec du <a href="http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola/">Cube Cola</a>.
Et <a href="http://www.constant.irisnet.be/~constant/champagne/">+Nurse+</a> nous jouera un mix inspiré sur platines ensoleillées.
Quarantaine, c'est 43 rue Lesbroussart, 1050 IXL, Bruxelles, Belgique <a href="http://www.quarantaine.biz">www.quarantaine.biz.</a>
On ne saurait trop vous conseiller de visiter!]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[For those who read German, type designer and -critic Gerrit van Aaken published quite a few well-researched essays on familiar open source typefaces such as <strong>Gentium</strong> and <strong>Vera</strong> plus a few surprises such as <strong>Kaffeesatz</strong> and <strong>Union</strong> (not under an open licence, but distributed by the Danish government for use in documents relating to Danish culture. Interesting concept...)
<a href="http://praegnanz.de/essays/">http://praegnanz.de/essays</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<strong>Kaffeeschrift</strong> was developed by Jan Gerner from Dresden for use in menus etc., hence the monospaced figures. It works well for titles and headers, but was not designed for longer texts (though it holds out surprisingly well)
Download and try out here: <a href="http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/kaffeesatz/">http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/kaffeesatz/</a>
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Tagesschrift is scanned and vectoralized handwriting; very nice atmosphere and a more than useful addition to the often rather dull set of open fonts available.
Download and try out here: <a href="http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/tagesschrift/">http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/tagesschrift/</a>
Both fonts are available under a not too restrictive Creative Commons License; you can copy, distribute, display, and perform (now that's a nice idea! -> I think this would mean you can embed them in documents?) the fonts; make derivative versions and also make commercial use of them. If you distribute (the same or altered versions), you are obliged to attribute Jan Gerner / http://www.yanone.de]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hey there, So how do you make your open sourced open type fonts?!
Do you have any experience with that!? Any experience with open source programs?
I'm looking for good ones helping me in typedesign so please hit me back ;)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hi Karl.
Yes we're playing a bit in the field of Fonts and Open Source Software...
For font design and encoding, we would strongly recommend FontForge software. It runs under Linux and MacOSX (X11) platforms. It is one of the best software existing in the Open Source space, complete and professionnal. All the documentation is available online. If you're used to Fontlab, this is very similar.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
For encodings and unicodes, and actually everything, there is the excellent "Fonts & Encodings" from O'reilly. Only in french for the moment, an english translation is estimated for November of this year. A bit of patience!
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fontsencodings/index.html
Keep us informed about your experiences with open source fonts and softwares. And hit us back!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>Interview with Pedro Amado (TypeForge)</em>
(Type) designer <strong>Pedro Amado</strong> is amongst many other things initiator of <a href="http://www.typeforge.net/">TypeForge</a>, a website dedicated to the development of 'collaborative type' with open source tools. While working as design technician at <a href="http://www.fba.up.pt" title="Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAUP)">FBAUP</a>, he is about to finish a MA with a paper on collaborative methods for the creation of art and design projects. When I e-mailed him about open font design and how he sees that developing, he responded with a list of useful links, but also with:
<blockquote>"Developing design teaching based on open source is one of my goals, because I think that is the future of education." </blockquote>
This text is based on the conversation about design, teaching and software that followed.
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<em>You told me you are employed as 'design technician'... what does that mean?</em>
It means that I provide assistance to teachers and students in the Design Department. I implemented scanning/printing facilities for example, and currently I develop and give workshops on Digital Technologies – software is a BIG issue for me right now!
Linux and Open Source Software are slowly entering the design spaces of our school. For me it has been a 'battle' to find space for these tools. I mean - we could migrate completely to OSS tools, but it's a slow progress. Mainly because people (students) need (and want) to be trained in the same commercial applications as the ones they will encounter in their professional life.
<em>How did Linux enter the design lab? How did that start?</em>
It started with a personal curiosity, but also for economical reasons. Our school can't afford to acquire all the software licenses we'd like. For example, we can't justify to pay approx. 100 x 10 € licenses, just to implement the educational version of Fontlab on some of our computers; especially because this package is only used by a part of our second year design students. You can image what the total budget will be with all the other needs...
I personally believe that we can find everything we need on the web. It's a matter of searching long enough! So this is how I was very happy to find Fontforge. An open source tool that is solid enough to use in education and can produce (as far as I have been able to test) almost professional results in font development.
At first I couldn't grasp how to use it under <a href="http://x.cygwin.com" title="Cygwin/X is a port of the X Window System to the Microsoft Windows">X</a> on Windows, so one day I set out to try and do it on Linux... and one thing lead to another...
<em>What got you into using OSS? Was it all one thing leading to another?</em>
Uau... can't remember... I believe it had to do with my first experiences on line; I don't think I knew the concept before 2000. I mean I've started using the web (IRC and basic browsing) in 1999, but I think it had to do with the search of newer and better tools...
<em>I think I also started to get into it around that time. But I think I was more interested in copyleft though, than in software.</em>
Oh... (blush) not me... I got into it definitely for the '<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.htm" title="Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in 'free beer.">free beer</a>' aspect!
By 2004 I started using DTP applications on Linux (still in my own time) and began to think that these tools could be used in an educational context, if not professionally. In the beginning of 2006 I presented a study to the coordinator of the Design Department at FBAUP, in which I proposed to start implementing Open Source tools as an alternative to the tools we were missing. <a href="http://www.blender.org/ ">Blender</a> for 3D animation, <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/">FontForge</a> for type design, <a href="http://processing.org/ ">Processing</a> for interactive/graphic programming and others as a complement to proprietary packages: The Gimp, Scribus and Inkscape to name the most important ones.
I ran into some technical problems that I hope will be sorted out soon; one of the strategies is to run these software packages on a migration basis - as the older computers in our lab won't be able to run MacOS 10.4+, we'll start converting them to Linux.
<em>I wanted to ask you about the relation between software and design. To me, economy, working process, but also aesthetics are a product of software, and at the same time software itself is shaped through use. I think the borders between software and design are not so strictly drawn. </em>
It's funny you put things in that perspective. I couldn't agree more. Nevertheless I think that design thinking prevails (or it should) as it must come first when approaching problems. If the design thinking is correct, the tools used should be irrelevant. I say 'should' because in a perfect environment we could work within a team where all tools (software/hardware) are mastered. Rarely this happens, so much of our design thinking is still influenced by what we can actually produce.
<em>Do you mean to say that “what we can think is influenced by what we can make”? This would work for me! But often when tools are mastered, they disappear in the background and in my opinion that can become a problem.</em>
I'm not sure if I follow your point. I agree with "the border between design and software is not so strict" nevertheless, I don't agree with "economy, process and aesthetics are a product of software". As you've come to say what we think is influenced by what we can make... this is an outside observation...
<blockquote>A technique is produced inside a culture, therefore one's society is conditioned by it's techniques. Conditioned, not determined" (LÉVY, 2000)
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Design, like economics and software, is a product of culture. Or is it the other way around? The fact is that we can't really tell what comes first. Culture is defined by and defines technology. Therefore it's more or less simple to accept that software determines (and is determined) by it's use. This is an intricate process... it kind of goes roundabout on itself...
<em>And where does design fit in in your opinion? Or more precisely: designers? </em>
Design is a cultural aspect. Therefore it does not escape this logic. Using a practical standpoint: Design is a product of economics and technology. Nevertheless the best design practices (or at least the one's that have endured the test of time) and the most renowned designers are the one's that can escape the the economic and technological boundaries.
The best design practices are the ones that are not products of economics and technology... they are kind of approaching a universal design status (if one exists). of course... it's very theoretical, and optimistic... but it should be like this... otherwise we'll stop looking for better or newer solutions, and we'll stop pushing boundaries and design as technology and other areas will stagnate.
On the other hand, there is a special 'school' of thought manifested through some of the Portuguese Design Association members, saying that the design process should lead the process of technological development. Henrique Cayate (I think it was in November last year) said that "design should lead the way to economy and technology in society." I think this is a bit far fetched...
<br /><br /><br /><em>Do you think software defines form and/or content? How is software related to design processes?</em>
I think these are the essential questions related to the use of OSS. Can we think about what we can make without thinking about process? I believe that in design processes, as in design teaching, concepts should be separated from techniques or software as much as possible.
<br /><br /><br /><em>To me, exactly because techniques and software are intertwined, software matters and should offer space for thinking (software should therefore not be separated from design).
You could also say: design becomes exceptionally strong when it makes use of its context, and responds to it in an intelligent way. Or maybe I did not understand what you meant by being "a product of". To me that is not necessarily a negative point.</em>
Well... yes... that could be a definition of good design, I guess.
I think that as a cultural produce, techniques can't determine society. It can and will influence it, but at the same time it will also just happen. When we talk about Design and Software I see the same principle reflected. Design being the "culture" or society and software being the tools or techniques that are developed to be used by designers. So this is much the same as "which came first? The chicken, or the egg?" Looking at it from a designers (not a software developers) point of view, the tools we use will always condition our output. Nevertheless I think it's our role as users to push tools further and let developers know what we want to do with them. Whether we do animation on Photoshop, or print graphics on Flash that's our responsibility. We have to use our tools in a responsible way. Knowing that the use we make of them will eventually come back at us. It's a kind of responsible feedback.
<br /><br /><br /><em>Using Linux in a design environment is not an obvious choice. Most designers are practically married to their Adobe Suite. How come it is entering your school after all? </em>
Very slowly! Linux is finally becoming valuable for Design/DTP area as it has been for long on the Internet/Web and programming areas. But you can't expect The Gimp to surpass Photoshop. At least not in the next few years. And this is the reality. If we can, we must train our students to use the best tools available. Ideally all tools available, so they won't have problems when faced with a tool professionally.
The big question is still, how we besides teaching students theory and design processes (with the help of free tools), help them to become professionals. We also have to teach them how to survive a professional relationship with professional tools like the Adobe Suite. As I am certain that Linux and OSS (or FLOSS) will be part of education’s future, I am certain of it’s coexistence along side with commercial software like Adobe’s. It’s only a matter of time. Being certain of this, the essential question is: How will we manage to work parallel in both commercial and free worlds?
<em>Do you think it is at all possible to 'survive' on other tools than the ones Adobe offers? </em>
well... I seem not to be able to dedicate myself entirely to these new tools...
To depend solely on OSS tools... I think that is not possible, at least not at this moment. But now is the time to take these OSS tools and start to teach with them. They must be implemented in our schools. I am certain that sooner or later this will be common practice throughout European schools.
<em>Can you explain a bit more, what you mean by 'real world'?</em>
Being a professional graphic designer is what we call the 'real world' in our school. I mean, having to work full time doing illustration, corporate identity, graphic design etc. to make a living - deliver on time to clients and make a profit to pay the bills by the end of the month!
<em>Do you think OSS can/should be taught differently? It seems self-teaching is built in to these tools and the community around it. It means you learn to teach others in fact ... that you actually have to leave the concept of 'mastering' behind? </em>
I agree. The great thing about Linux is precisely that - as it is developed by users and for users - it is developing a sense of community around it, a sense of "given enough eyeballs, someone will figure it out"
<em>Well, that does not always work, but most of the time... </em>
I believe that using open source tools is perfect to teach, especially first year students. Almost no one really understands what the commands behind the menus of Photoshop mean, at least not the people I've seen in my workshops. I guess The Gimp won't resolve this matter, but it will help them think about what they are doing to digital images. Especially when they have to use unfamiliar software.
You first have to teach the design process and then the tool can be taught correctly, otherwise you’ll just be teaching habits or tricks. As I said before, as long as design prevails and not the tool/technique, and you teach the concepts behind the tools in the right way, people will adapt seamlessly to new tools, and the interface will become invisible!
<em>Do you think this means you will need to restructure the curriculum? I imagine a class in bugreporting... or getting help on line... </em>
mmhh... that could be interesting. I've never thought about it in that way. I've always seen bugreporting and other community driven activities as part of the individual aspect of working with these tools... but basically you are suggesting to implement an 'open source civic behavior class' or something like that?
<em>Ehm... Yes! I think you need to learn that you own your tools, meaning you need to take care of them (ie: if something does not work, report) but at the same time you can open them up and get under the hood... change something small or something big. You also need to learn that you can expect to get help from other people than your tutor... and that you can teach someone else. </em>
The aspect of taking responsibility, this has to be cultivated - a responsible use of these tools. About changing things under the hood... well this I think it will be more difficult. I think there is barely space to educate people to hack their own tools let alone getting under the hood and modifying them.
But you are right that under the OSS communication model, the peer review model of analysis, communication is getting less and less hierarchical. You don't have to be an expert to develop new or powerful tools or other things... A peer-review model assumes that you just need to be clever and willing to work with others. As long as you treat your collaborators as peers, whether or not they are more or less advanced than you, this will motivate them to work harder. You should not disregard their suggestions and reward them with the implementations (or critics) of their work.
<em>How does that model become a reality in teaching? How can you practice this?</em>
Well... for example use public communication/distribution platforms (like an expanded web forum) inside school, or available on the Internet; blog updates and suggestions constantly; keep a repository of files; encourage the use of real time communication technologies... as you might have noticed is almost the formula used in e-learning solutions.
<em>And also often an argument for cutting down on teaching hours.</em>
That actually is and isn't true. You can and will (almost certainly) have less and less traditional classes, but if the teachers and tutors are dedicated, they will be more available than ever! This will mean that students and teachers will be working together in a more informal relationship. But it can also provoke an invasion of the personal space of teachers...
<em>It is hard to put a border when you are that much involved. I am just thinking how you could use the community around Open Source Software to help out. I mean... if the on line teaching tools would be open to others outside the school too, this would be the advantage. It would also mean that as a school, you contribute to the public domain with your classes and courses.</em>
That is another question. I think schools should contribute to public domain knowledge. Right now I am not sharing any of the knowledge about implementing OSS on a school like ours with the community. But if all goes well I'll have this working by December 2006. I'm working on a website where I can post the handbooks for workshops and other useful resources.
<em>I am really curious about your experiences. However convinced I am of the necessity to do it, I don't think it is easy to open education up to the public, especially not for undergraduate education.</em>
I do have my doubts too. If you look at it on a commercial perspective, students are paying for their education... should we share the same content to everyone? Will other people explore these resources in a wrong way? Will it really contribute to the rest of the community? What about profit? Can we afford to give this knowledge away for free, I mean, as a school this is almost our only source of income? Will the prestige gained, be worth the possible loss? These are important questions that I need to think more about.
<em>OK, I will be back with you in 6 month to find out more!</em>
<em>My last question... why would you invest time and energy in OSS when you think good designers should escape economical and technological boundaries?</em>
If we invest energy on OSS tools now, we'll have the advantage of already being savvy by the time they become widely accepted. The worst case scenario would be that you've wasted time perfecting your skills or learned a new tool that didn't become a standard... How many times have we done this already in our life? In any way, we need to learn concepts behind the tools, learn new and different tools, even unnecessary ones in order to broaden our knowledge base – this will eventually help us think 'out of the box' and hopefully push boundaries further [not so much as escaping them].
For me OSS and its movement have reached a maturity level that can prove it's own worth in society. Just see Firefox - when it reached general user acceptance level (aka 'project maturity' or 'development state'), they started to compete directly with MS Internet Explorer. This will happen with the rest (at least that's what I believe). It's a matter of quality and doing the correct broadcast to the general public.
Linux started almost as a personal project and now it’s a powerhouse in programming or web environments. Maybe because these are areas that require constant software and hardware attention it became an obvious and successful choice. People just modified it as they needed it done. Couldn’t this be done as effectively (or better) with commercial solutions? Of course. But could people develop personalized solutions to specific problems in their own time frame? Probably not…
But it means that the people involved are, or can resource to, computer experts. What about the application of these ideas to other areas? The justice department of the Portuguese government (Ministério da Justiça) is for example currently undergoing a massive informatics (as in the tools used) change – they are slowly migrating their working platform to an Open Source Linux distribution – Caixa Mágica (although it’s maintained and given assistance by a commercial enterprise by the same name). By doing this, they’ll cut costs dramatically and will still be able to work with equivalent productivity (one hopes: better!). The other example is well known. The Spanish region of Estremadura looked for a way to cut costs on the implementation of information technologies in their school system and developed their own Linux Distro called Linex – it aggregates the software bundle they need, and best of all has been developed and constantly tweaked by them.
Now Linux is becoming more accessible for users without technical training, and is in a WYSIWYG state of development, I really believe we should start using it seriously so we can try and test it and learn how we can use in in our everyday life (for me this process has already started…).
People aren't stupid. They're just 'change resistant'. One of the aspects I think that will get peoples' attention will be that a 'free beer' is as good as a commercial one.]]></content:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>Interview with Harrisson</em>
One of the co-conspirators in this open source adventure is a Brussels <em>graphiste</em> going under the name <strong>Harrisson</strong>. His interest in open source software flows with the culture of exchange that keeps the off centre music scene alive, as well as with the humanist tradition persistingly present in contemporary typography.
Harrissons' visual frame of reference is eclectic and vibrant, including modernist giants, vernacular design, local typographic culture, classic painting, drawing and graffiti. Too much food for one conversation.
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<em>You could say that "A typeface is entirely derivative", but others argue, that maybe the alphabet is, but not the interpretations of it.</em>
The main point of typography and ownership today is that there is a blurred border between language and letters. So: now you can own the 'shape' of a letter. Traditionally, the way typographers made a living was by buying (more or less expensive) lead fonts, and with this tool they printed books and got paid for that. They got paid for the typesetting, not for the type. That was the work of the foundries. Today, thanks to the digital tools, you can easily switch between type design, type setting and graphic design.
<em>What about the idea that fonts might be the most 'pirated' digital object possible? Copying is much more difficult when you've got lead type to handle!
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Yes, digitalisation changed the rules. Just as mp3 changed the philosophy of music. But in typography, there is a strange confrontation between this flux of copied information, piracy and old rules of ownership from the past.
<em>Do you think the culture of sharing fonts changed? Or: the culture of distributing them? If you look at most licenses for fonts, they are extremely restrictive. Even 99% of Free Fonts do not allow derivative works.</em>
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<small>Warning message when attempting to embed a font in InDesign</small>
The public good culture is paradoxally not often there. Or at least the economical model of living with public good idea is not very developed. While I think typography, historically, is always seen as a way to share knowledge. Humanist stuff.
<blockquote>The art and craft of typeface design is currently headed for extinction due to the illegal proliferation of font software, piracy, and general disregard for proper licensing etiquette.
<small><a href="http://redesign.emigre.com/FAQ.php">http://redesign.emigre.com/FAQ.php</a></small></blockquote>
Emigré... Did they not live from the copyrights of fonts?!
<em>You are right. They are like a commercial record company. Can you imagine what would happen if you would open up the typographic trade - to 'open source' this economy? Stop chasing piracy and allow users to embed, study, copy, modify and redistribute typefaces?
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Well we are not that far from this in fact. Every designer has at least 500 fonts on their computer, not licenced, but copied because it would be impossible to pay for!
<em>Even the distribution model of fonts is very peer-to-peer as well. The reality might come close, but font licenses tell a different story.</em>
<blockquote>I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.
<small>Cory Doctorow in <a href="http://craphound.com/bio.php">http://craphound.com/bio.php</a></small>
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<em>I am not saying all fonts should be open, but it is just that it would be interesting when type designers were testing and experimenting with other ways of developing and distributing type, with another economy.</em>
Yes, but fonts have a much more reduced user community than music or bookpublishing, so old rules stay.
<em>Is that it? I am surprised to see that almost all typographers and foundries take the 'piracy is a crime' side on this issue. While typographers are early and enthusiastic adapters of computer technology, they have not taken much from the collaborative culture that came with it.</em>
This is the 'tradition' typography inherited. Typography was one of the first laboratories for fractioning work for efficiency. It was one of the first modern industries, and has developed a really deep culture where it is not easy to set doubts in. 500 years of tradition and only 20 years of computers.The complexity comes from the fact it is influenced by a multiple series of elements, from history and tradition to the latest technologies. But it is always related to an economic production system, so property and 'secrets-of-the-trade' have a big influence on it.
<em>I think it is important to remember how the current culture of (not) sharing fonts is linked to its history. But books have been made for quite a while too.</em>
Open source systems may be not so much influencing distribution, licenses and economic models in typography, but can set original questions to this problematic of digital type. Old tools and histories are not reliable anymore.
<em>Yes. with networked software it is rather obvious that it is useful to work together. I try to understand how this works with respect to making a font. Would that work?
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Collaborative type is extremely important now, I think. The globalisation of computer systems sets the language of typography in a new dimension. We use computers in Belgium and in China. Same hardware. But language is the problem! A French typographer might not be the best person to define a Vietnamese font. Collaborativity is necessary! <a href="http://www.speculoos.com">Pierre Huyghebaert </a>told me he once designed an Arabic font when he was in Lebanon. For him, the font was legible, but nobody there was able to read it.
<em>But how would you collaborate than? I mean... what would be the reason for a French typographer to collaborate with one from China? What would that bring? I'm imagining some kind of hybrid result... kind of interesting.</em>
Again, sharing. We all have the idea that English is the modern Latin, and if we are not careful the future of computers will result in a language reductionism.
<em>What interest me in open source, is the potential for 'biodiversity'.</em>
I partially agree, and the open source idea contradicts the reductionist approach by giving more importance to local knowledge. A collaboration between an Arabic typographer and a French one can be to work on tools that allow both languages to co-exist. Latex permits that, for example. Not QuarkXpress!
<em>Where does your interest in typography actually come from?</em>
I think I first looked at comic books, and then started doodling in the margins of schoolbooks. As a teenager, I used to reproduce film titles such as Aliens, Terminator or other sci-fi high-octane typographic titles.
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Basically, I'm a forger! In writing, you need to copy to understand. Thats an old necessity.
If you use a typeface, you express something. You're putting drawings of letters next to each other to compose a word/text. A drawing is always emotionally charged, which gives color (or taste) to the message. You need to know what's inside a font to know what it expresses.
<em>How do you find out what's inside?</em>
By reproducing letters, and using them. A Gill Sans does not have the same emotional load as a Bodoni. To understand a font is complicated, because it refers to almost every field in culture. The banners behind G.W. Bush communicate more than just 'Mission Accomplished'. Typefaces carry a 'meta language'.
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/compassion_bush.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_compassion_bush.jpg" width="300" height="88" alt="compassion" title="compassion" /></a>
<small>http://voice.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=%5Fgetfullarticle&aid=2131398</small>
<em>It is truly embedded content</em>
Exactly!
It is still very difficult to bridge the gap between personal emotions and programming a font. Moreover, there are different approaches, from stroke design to software that generates fonts. And typography is standardisation.
The first digital fonts are drawn fixed shapes, letter by letter, 'outstrokes'. But there is another approach where the letters are traced by the computer. It needs software to be generated. In Autocad, letters are 'innerstroke' that can vary of weight. Letterrors' Beowolf is also an example of that kind of approach.
<img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/beowolf.jpg" width="260" height="75" alt="beowolf" title="beowolf" />
<small><a href="http://www.letterror.com/foundry/beowolf/">http://www.letterror.com/foundry/beowolf/</a></small>
It's a very interesting way to work, but the font depends on the platform it goes with. Beowolf only works on OS9. It also set the question of copyright very far. It's a case study in itself.
<em>So it means, the font is software in fact?</em>
Yes, but the inter-dependance between font and operating systems is very strong, contrary to a fixed format such as TrueType. For printed matter, this is much more complicated to achieve. There are in-between formats, such as Multiple Master Technology for example. It basically means, that you have 2 shapes for 1 glyph, and you can set an 'alternative' shape between the 2 shapes. At Adobe they still do not understand why it was (and still is) a failure...
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<em>I really like this idea... to have more than one master. Imagine you own one master and I own the other and than we adjust and tweak from different sides. That would be real collaborative type! Could 'multiple' mean more than one you think?
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It is a bit more complicated than drawing a simple font in Fontographer or Fontforge. Pierre told me that MM feature is still available in Adobe Illustrator, but that it is used very seldomly. Multiple Master fonts are also a bit complicated to use. I think there were a lot of bugs first, and then you need to be a skilled designer to give these fonts a nice render. I never heard of an alternative use of it, with drawing or so. In the end it was probably never a success because of the software dependency.
<em>While I always thought of fonts as extremely cross media. Do you remember which classic font was basically the average between many well-known fonts? Frutiger?</em>
Fonts are Culture Capsules! It was Adrian Frutiger. But he wasn't the only one to try... It was a research for the Univers font I think. Here again we meet this paradox of typography: a standardisation of language generating cultural complexity.
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<small>Sketch for Univers by Adrian Frutiger</small>
<em>Univers. That makes sense. Amazing to see those examples together. It seems digital typography got stuck at some point, and I think some of the ideas and practices that are current in open source could help break out of it.</em>
Yes of course. And it is almost virgin space.
<em>In 2003 the Danish government released Union, a font that could be freely used for publications concerning Danish culture. I find this an intrigueing idea, that a font could be seen as some kind of 'public good'.</em>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/union.png"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/_union.png" width="300" height="89" alt="union" title="union" /></a>
<small>http://www.identifont.com/show?BW8</small>
I am convinced that knowledge needs to be open... (speaking as the son of a teacher here!). One medium for knowledge is language and its atoms are letters.
<em>But if information wants to be free, does that mean that design needs to be free too? Is there information possible without design?</em>
This is why I like books. Because it's a mix between information and beauty - or can be. Pfff, there is nothing without design... It is like is there something without language, no?]]></content:encoded>
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Tesla, Klosterstraße 68-70, Berlin
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Workshop Organised by <strong>Cornelia Sollfrank</strong> and <strong>Nicolas Malevé</strong>
Printing Party by <strong>Harrisson</strong> & <strong>Pierre Huyghbaert
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<blockquote>FREEdom and OPENness – anything but marketing and ideology? Sharing, really? Culture from and for the Commons. One day before WOS4, an international group of artists, programmers and theoreticians will meet for a concentrated exchange of experiences within a workshop situation.
The programme of the day includes a general discussion about terminology, it will address questions of authorship, it offers the possibility for knowledge transfer in a section about free tools for artistic and cultural production and discusses their meaning for the quality of an artwork and it tries to evaluate the practice of applying open licences to works of art.
The meeting will be concluded by demonstrating a new model of open publishing (print on demand) as well as the use of free tools in design and publishing during the final “Printing Party.”</blockquote>
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<strong>Maternal Politics</strong>, Irina Aristarkhova
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<strong>Les nouveaux habits de la copie</strong>, Nicolas Malevé
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<strong>Manifeste GNU</strong>, Richard Stallman
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...Harrisson and Femke offered the audience a small tasting of publishing, designing and printing with Open Source tools.
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<small>Lay-out in Scribus</small>
<a href="http://www.geuzen.org/download/travail_low.pdf">Download low-res PDF</a>
Finished! Sketched and produced a seven page contribution to <a href="http://www.skor.nl/set-635-nl.html?lang=en">Open</a> (Dutch bi-monthly on art in public space) + inside cover. Images were prepared in Gimp; pattern assembled in Inkskape and document lay-out in Scribus (v1.3.3.2); all on Ubuntu.
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- Importing outlines from Gimp, re-using them with multiple images / layers in Inkskape: flawless; selection editor + svg export in Gimp works well with vector options in Inkskape. Had some problems with transparency in PDF-export from Inkskape.
- EPS export from Scribus, after a few trials and errors flawless too; including transparency of layers.
- Lack of interaction with EPS-export is frustrating; default is to crop the document along its margins so all you can do is set margins to zero before export.
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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A report from the whole day is here: <a href="http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/index.php/FREEdom_and_OPENness%2C_workshop">http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/in...</a>
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For Wizard of OS Constant Printing Team members Harrisson and Pierre Huyghebaert showed that designing and printing booklets with Open Source software is nowhere near Science Fiction.
Wednesday the 13th of September, Pierre and Harrisson presented a Print Party during Wisard of Os 4. This event was taking place in Berlin. The critical panel, organised by Cornelia Solfrank and Nicolas Malevé at Tesla (former Podewil) gathered Laurence Rassel, Simon Yuill, Harrisson, Pierre Huyghebaert, Simon Worthington, Adam Hyde, Saul Albert, Gisle Froysland, Malte Steiner, Gordon Duggan, Eberhard Ortland, Hinrich Sachs, Aileen Derieg, Goran Djordevic, Gergers Petersen, Felix Stalder, Inke Arns, Jacob Lillemose, Annette Schindler, Dorothea Carl, Christian von Borries, …
This compact presentation was focused on the imposition of a 8 pages leaflet, that we succeded in printing, using non graphical interface softwares on Ubuntu. This little operation replaced what used to be done by a 10000 euro software 5 years ago.
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Text set on paper is Femke Sneltings "Open Source Software for design" and OsBlogs "How To Print A Booklet In 19 Easy Steps", resulting in a "meta" publication on Constant Verlag.
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<strong>Design Tools for Designers</strong>, Femke Snelting
<strong>19 steps to do a Booklet</strong>, OsBlog
Text available on line: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=90">OSBlog</a>
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I cannot see the cover_berlin.pdf -> can you fix this? I need to know under which licence the cover is made. Dankuwel!!
Muchas Gracias!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format)</strong>
Yesterday I attended a meeting hosted by TACD at Harvard's Berkman Center about a very important issue -- one that is both highly technical and political at the same time -- the battle over the Open Document Format (ODF).
(See links: <a href="http://www.cptech.org/a2k/odf/odfwkshop20oct06/">http://www.cptech.org/a2k/odf/odfwkshop20oct06/</a>, <a href="http://<br ></a> www.tacd.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument">http://
www.tacd.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument</a>)
The technical part concerns what ODF is -- an open specification for the formats of common documents such as those created by word processors, spreadsheets and presentation graphics programs. The political part concerns what ODF represents -- an end to the Microsoft monopoly in desktop applications that are used to author and manage these documents."
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Estimates vary, but Microsoft probably controls somewhere between 90 to 95 percent of the market for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation graphics programs. This means people use Microsoft software to create these documents, and also to store data. The source of Microsoft's monopoly is control over file formats, in a world where data needs to be shared.
Lots of companies or even free software communities can create
software to do these common tasks. Corel's WordPerfect office suite,
Apple's iWorks, the OpenOffice.Org, and doc.google.com are just a few
examples of "competitors" to Microsoft office, each controlling a
tiny part of the small non-Microsoft market share. But as we all
know, we need to exchange data. With everyone using email and the
web, we need to consider if others can read our documents, and if we
can read what we receive from others.
By failing to document their own (periodically modified) file
formats, and not supporting the file formats of competitors,
Microsoft has been able to create a very compelling reason to buy,
and buy again, Microsoft software. Documents created in (current
versions) of Microsoft's software are the best way to read documents
other people create using Microsoft's software. So long as everyone
uses a reasonably current version of Microsoft's software, everything
more or less works.
You can try to avoid using Microsoft -- but at price. Documents might
not look right. Sometimes the differences are small -- but sometimes
they are almost unusable. For this reason, most of the entire
computer using world now relies upon software from Microsoft. Other
companies don't even bother to invest in competing products. There is
very little choice or innovation in this product space.
Some people say this is inevitable, but of course, this is not true.
The lack of interoperability is deliberate -- the linchpin of
Microsoft's monopoly. But if the public could embrace an open format
for documents, the outcome would be much different. There would be
more competition, more innovation, better products, cheaper prices,
etc. And there is a highly relevant example -- the web.
Web pages are build upon the foundation of open format - called HTML
- for hypertext mark-up language. The standards for HTML are
determined by the World Wide Web Consortium - which is not controlled
by any one company. The formats are open, well documented, and
designed to work with different software and hardware. It has
probably been the most influential and important data standard in the
history of publishing.
There are now thousands of high quality and innovative tools to
author web pages. Microsoft offers a few, but they were never able to
establish a significant market share. Indeed, there is no "leading"
tool for creating web pages. Instead, there is an astonishing variety
of methods of doing so - ranging from bare bones text based html
editing tools to incredibility easy to use blogging software -
offered by a variety of companies, free software projects or even
individuals.
The "Open Document Format" (ODF) effort has been led by a large group
of non-Microsoft software companies that are seeking to level the
playing field for software tools to author and manage text, data and
graphics. It is pretty new, only having been approved by ISO/IEC on
May 8, 2006. So far, only a handful of products support ODF,
including the much improved free software office suite called
OpenOffice.Org, the online program docs.google.com, and some Linux
only applications. Apple, Corel and Microsoft have yet to suport ODF.
A handful of thoughtful government officials are trying to require
software vendors, including Microsoft, to use this new open standard,
in order to achieve a number of important public policy objectives,
including:
* More competition among suppliers of software,
* Improved ability to manage archives of data,
* Enhanced ability to use and re-purpose data contained in documents.
The State of Massachusetts and the government of Belgium and Denmark
have already put in place requirements that ODF be supported by
software companies, and now other governments are beginning to
consider similar initiatives. If they succeed, it could result in a
revolution in the structure of the entire software market, and bring
much needed competition and innovation to these important areas.
Next year Microsoft will try to sell the public on it's latest file
format -- "Open XML", which they are marketing as a "competitor" to
ODF as an "open" data format. Open XML was described by one expert as
a standard that only Microsoft could implement - similar to a job
description custom made for a single job applicant.
Next month in Athens, Greece, at the new "Internet Governance Forum,"
there will be proposals for global norms to support open standards
for key aspects of information technologies, including but not
limited to data formats. Many people are nervous about these issues,
because Microsoft is investing millions to defeat them, and to attack
personally government officials who Microsoft sees as too friendly to
open standards, and to reward politicians and government officials
who back Microsoft.
This battle, which is often very difficult to follow at the level of
the technical details, is quite important. For years we have
tolerated the manipulation of data formats to maintain a monopoly
that has imposed all sorts of costs of society, in terms of high
prices, lack of innovation and poor quality software. One only needs
to compare the innovation seen on web publishing to the dearth of
innovation you see on the computer desktop. If ODF succeeds now,
Microsoft will have to compete on the basis of prices and quality -
rather than by being the only product that will not mangle a
document. That should be a good thing for everyone in the long run.
State and federal government agencies should be asked to require that
software vendors support ODF.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[From http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Belgium will be the first country to forbid de facto the use of proprietary formats for the administration's documents, from September 2008 on.
Vendredi 23 juin 2006, le Gouvernement fédéral belge décide de rendre obligatoire dans son administration le format Open Document à partir de septembre 2008[2]. La Belgique sera le premier État au monde qui interdira de facto l'usage des formats propriétaires tels ceux de Microsoft (ref : (fr) http://www.belgium.be/eportal/application?pageid=contentPage&languageParameter=fr&docId=38505) (ref : (en) http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=6335&pagtype=all) (ref : (nl) http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=GB1U60S9 ). En septembre 2008, ODF devrait être obligatoire entre les differents services et administrations belges.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Due to my recent task of teaching typography, I was looking around for courses and experiences in that domain. This drove me to Ellen Lupton's website, teacher at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA): <a href="http://www.designwritingresearch.org/index.html">www.designwritingresearch.org</a>. There, in an impressive generosity, you can consult her current syllabi and exercices of hight quality courses.
She's is also a responsive designers awared of the problematic of proprietary fonts in design. Her website host a free font manifesto page: <a href="http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html">http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html
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Lupton wrote several books on teaching typography. The manual "thinking with type" is a reference in the field. This book is accompanied by a rich teaching website: <a href="http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/">thinkingwithtype.com</a> which gives number of exercices and "adaptative" syllabus.
She's editor in <a href="http://freefontmanifesto.blogspot.com/">Freefontmanifesto Blog</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Femke]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[What a good news she did that (and great find)! The text of her lecture 'Univers Strikes Back' is really helpful in many respects... can't wait to see more serious responses to her weblog.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Open DIN: Das Ist Norm</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>What does it mean, when a typeface is released in the public domain? What are the legal issues surrounding typography? How can a font be generated collaboratively, using open source software? What does it mean, an open standard and how can such a standard fit different contexts?</strong>
<img id="image148" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/q-32.jpg" alt="DIN_Q" />
To get our hands into these and many other interesting, but difficult questions, the Open Source Publishing team has embarked on a new adventure. In the coming year, we will be working on a new digital rendering of the classic DIN font with the aim to release it in the public domain.
We chose DIN (often referred to as "the German Autobahn typeface") as a starting point for a few reasons.
First of all, because it is one of the rare typefaces that was released into the public domain from the moment it was designed in 1932. While the original drawings remain freely available, various type foundries have copyrighted digital renderings (see: <a href="http://www.linotype.com/306/din1451-family.html">http://www.linotype.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.fontfont.com/shop/index.ep?cview=P71702D&clist=PD">http://www.fontfont.com/</a>).
Secondly because its particular history brings up many questions about standards, their political implications and relations to use. In 1936 the German Standard Committee decided DIN should be employed in technology, traffic, administration, and business, with the idea to facilitate the development of German engineering and industry. Our point of departure is therefore far from neutral ground.
Collaborators: Pierre Huyghebaert, Harrisson, Philip May, Nicolas Maleve and Femke Snelting.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[ignacio]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[this is a great initiative, please don't forget to include the spanish special characters!]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Elle]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[I really am looking forward to this open font, since I am looking for it a long time]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[does it mean getting paths from Manuale Tipografico (and alike) raster scans we can have an OpenBodoni without having legal problems with those known foundries used to sell Bodoni, since a 250 year old work is a public domain?]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com</wp:comment_author_url>
<wp:comment_author_IP>87.196.147.20</wp:comment_author_IP>
<wp:comment_date>2009-02-23 18:21:24</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[i forgot to tell about this project: http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/
(how can we delete that mistaken previous post?)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://nitrofurano.gmail.com</wp:comment_author_url>
<wp:comment_author_IP>87.196.237.33</wp:comment_author_IP>
<wp:comment_date>2009-06-18 01:50:00</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[http://www.fontshop.be/upload/0ZC7YPAC.jpg - found this master drawing of Prussian Railways typeface - if someone have this in a better resolution, please let us know! :)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Since this typeface were designed to be drawn over an orthogonal square grid, i didn't care about kernings - i think this would reach closelly the idea of the Prussian Railways at early 20th century - but, if the kerning needs really exists, could it be a good idea to be snapped to 50 or 25 units multiples?]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2009-06-17 17:09:00</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[http://www.magwerk.com/mag.php?magazine=encore&language=en&issue=13&page=34 helped me fixing http://pastebin.com/f21f16ecd (sfd) and http://pastebin.com/f4293eabb (svg) - accessing the original master drawing would help a lot indeed]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>44855</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2009-06-17 00:53:12</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[i don't know if http://pastebin.com/f200354ae (sfd) and http://pastebin.com/f69957ad6 (svg) can be considered a start - of course it's plenty of mistakes, and i'm not completelly assured about if the licence of the original DIN drawing is really public domain (i imagine it is anyway...)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Interesting is seeing both Linotype and Fontfont versions are very different of the original Engschrift - both seems to try to fix some 'mistakes' from the original, and if some version (open, for example) follows strictly from the original (which seems to be public domain?), i think it may not have licensing problems... - i don't know if this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DIN1451board.jpg is the original master drawing, and where can we get one with better quality...]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>44638</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[paulo]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com</wp:comment_author_url>
<wp:comment_author_IP>87.196.56.143</wp:comment_author_IP>
<wp:comment_date>2008-12-28 12:05:27</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[not exactly about Din - the original drawings of Garamond seems to be in a Belgium museum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin-Moretus_Museum - would be possible an Open-Garamond being made from these drawings? http://barneycarroll.com/garamond.htm]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>44862</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2009-06-18 18:24:12</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[when trying to upload to openfontlibrary.org - "/var/www/openfontlibrary.org/htdocs/cclib/cc-debug.php"(287): error_log(../cchost_offline/cc-log.txt) [function.error-log]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory [2009-06-18 16:22 pm][127.0.0.1][/media/submit/font] - beautiful...]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>44863</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nitrofurano]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>nitrofurano@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2009-06-18 19:38:20</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[last version at http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=107153]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Waarom betalen voor iets dat gemeen goed is? « Jeffry Baecker]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_author_url>http://jeffrybaecker.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/waarom-betalen-voor-iets-dat-gemeen-goed-is/</wp:comment_author_url>
<wp:comment_author_IP>66.135.48.201</wp:comment_author_IP>
<wp:comment_date>2010-05-19 11:46:23</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] Waarom betalen voor iets dat gemeen goed is? 19/05/2010 Via OSP [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Skeleton, Corset, Skin</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/texts/skeleton-corset-skin</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<a href="http://stroom.nl/activiteiten/manifestatie.php?m_id=4653044">Stroom Den Haag</a> started their year long project <em>After Neurath</em> with a public symposium. <em>After Neurath</em> looked/looks at the relevance of 1930's philosopher and information activist Otto Neurath, and as you can imagine various familiar issues came up.
More information about Otto Neurath: <a href="http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier.php?wd_id=3530772">http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier.php?wd_id=3530772</a>
The project is curated by Steve Rushton. Speakers: Frank Hartmann, Robin Kinross, Kristóf Nyíri and myself.
My talk is here: <a id="p146" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/corsetskinskeleton.pdf">corsetskinskeleton.pdf</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Design for the common good</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week the <a href="http://www.premsela.org">Dutch Design Foundation Premsela</a> organised 'For the common good', a conference around <a href="http://www.stedelijk.nl/oc2/page.asp?PageID=1475">Pierre Bernhard</a> (Grapus, Ne Pas Plier), who has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus price.
Design critic Hugues Boekraad introduced the work of Bernard with a plea for reflexive design; in his perspective designers have the responsibility to build bridges between the private and the public, between the particular and the general. Communication between government and citizens, cultural production, cultural heritage... Pierre Bernhard than showed early Grapus designs for and with the French communist party, followed by a more recent Ne Pas Plier project on children's human rights. From the third presentation by <a href="http://www.thonik.nl/">Thonik</a> (Thomas Widdershoven), a radical re-design of the Dutch <a href="http://www.sp.nl">SP</a> (socialist party), it was clear that times have changed. Using advertising strategies in bold red typography, and avoiding complicated messages, their design can only be measured in terms of succes. <a href="http://www.vandejong.nl/">VanDeJong</a> ended the afternoon with presenting a long term educational project <a href="http://www.anno.nl/">Anno</a>, aimed at making Dutch history accessible for everyone. "It doesn't teach but it gives a fun experience".
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HB = Hugues Boekraad
PB = Pierre Bernard
DK = Dingeman Kuilman (managing director of Premsela)
CS = Carine de Smedt (design theoretician (?))
TW = Thomas Widdershoven
PJ = Pjotr de Jong
(caution - these are my notes -- not a transcription!)
DK: Piere, could you respond to the work of Thonik and VanDeJong... do you think there are differences, comparisons to make?
PB: It is hard to compare -- time is different -- what we did than is today not possible; we need to think quick, and we risk not to think deep enough. To go to the symbol quickly is necessary -- we are under a lot of narration (tv, advertisement) -- with these kind of images you can stop those stories and start to think for yourself.
DK: It seems public and private communication strategies are exchangeable. Is that true?
PB: I think it was always like that... what we as Grapus tried to do (but those were different times) was to develop ideas between one election and another. The goal was not only to win. Deep politics is not only about electing people in parliament, but also to understand what the reality of the everyday is about.
HB: In the campaign for the SP I think there is an absence of floating images. It is all typography and code with a symbol added. I like the symbol, turning the tomato from a negative symbol into a positive one... but in Grapus' work you'll always find a zone of free imagination. A space to identify with. This is not possible with symbols; those images are already stabilized.
TW: I agree with both your analyses... Now I will need to convince my client to want this too ...
PB: Well, I think the general aestetics of the red ... it is red and white and forms ... functions in a way as a floating image too.
HB: I was referring to the horizontal quality of the communication. PB works with reciprocal exchange -- where the language of the city hall and the political party are mixed -- to bring in the language of the people you are talking to, in to the rhetoric of the design. Using the rhetoric of ordinary life.
DK: Is it political work?
CS: It is, all of the work always is. It is a great demonstration of the power of graphic design ... what it can be. Cultural commissions are currently treated like commercial. It is obvious that there is a difference between commercial and public commission. The question is... is the public domain not everywhere? If everything is politic... can we equal it to the every day life... can we apply those ideas to every field?
PJ: Everyone should take their responsibility... not just the government. This time of receding governments is a great chance for other institutions to play a role.
DK: is there a difference between commercial and 'public' clients
PJ: Most of our clients are public institutions ... our way of working is the same... we are looking for the real message...
HB: I do not agree. In a democracy the difference between public and private is holy. The public domain is the space of the law. The space of the common, of language. It requires a different way of working. In Holland ... the succes of graphic design ... developed in state owned corporations. Did they really differ in logic, aestetics? are they different? Or did it introduce the management models of the private sphere in public institutions... made way for later privatization of the public sphere? On a theoretical and practical level you need to make a sharp distinction.
DK: what is the relevance of dialogue for a graphic designer?
PB: Communication is a dialogue. With mass media... you need a lot of technique... and the main actor is the market. Even when they work with a graphic designer... it can be difficult. They think as commercial people ... as if their visitors are clients ... they are sure it is a good model. It is only for people who know. It is important to believe in the public, that they are able to understand messages and to feel the same things as we are able to feel. In commercial terms, the only possible response is buying, not a dialogue.
DK: How do you balance dialogue and propaganda?
CS: in France we need to look at the great models we had. To understand the process... society has changed... we have to find new ways... we must fight for graphic design to exist ... a thinking form of graphic design
TH: we always tried to put commercial values in the cultural... branding, but playing with it. We try to bring in cultural values in 'commercial' fields. If the propaganda works, than you create space to play.
PB: In the Netherlands you have a chance to make things happen, because you have a graphic design culture... we had great postermakers once... but advertising is dominant since the 70's. What you describe ... the equilibrium between propaganda and information ... it is in fact graphic design as Popart.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Watch this thread: Free Font Manifesto</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ellen Lupton's question: <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34853894&postID=115909195561855648">Why would a typeface designer want to give a font away?</a></strong> sparked off a series of comments worth reading. The discussion shows how much typographers struggle with 'open source' as an idea. It makes you wonder why Lupton decided to ask 'to give away a font' and not 'to share source' - the latter probably fits the typographic spirit better. A few samples:
<blockquote>"(...) this movement you start up has the potential to make look bad and selfish the designers who wish not to participate, possibly because they are independents and just can't afford to give away months, sometimes years of hard labour. I don't want to sound pedantic, but I think your initiative could use a fair amount of discretion, because this possibly has already done harm to the type community without you even realising it."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"To suggest that the world would be better if Latin "graphic designers" had more free fonts to choose from not only makes it seem like misers are in control here, but it also makes it clear that good thinkers do not exist out there."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"The whole P2P community is breeding a generation of lazy idiots who think they can get anything for free. May it be music or typefaces. Why buy good type, when you can get it for free."</blockquote>
but also:
<blockquote>"To say that an "Open Source" font initiative would put designers out of business, or dilute the value of legitimate 'commercial' fonts is simply trying to lock the barn after the horses have long since left. Where have they been over the past twenty years?"</blockquote>
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<title>Convert tiff to transparent PNG</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/convert-tiff-to-transparent-png</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 a web application into an image editor, etc.
<img id="image158" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/compare-trans.png" alt="From tiff to png" />
We will start with a modest example taken from a real life situation. We, Femke and Nicolas, are working on an illustration in Inkscape. For this illustration, we have scanned a lot of notes we have written on paper. The scanned images have been saved in tiff. We have imported them in Inkscape and started making the composition. Half-way we realise that it should be a lot more easier to work with the same images but saved as PNG with a transparent background. As there is 165 images to transform, to do it one by one in Gimp sounds just frightening. This is where the wonderful <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php">Imagemagick</a> software enters into play.
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Imagemagick is shipped with every major linux distribution or can easily be installed by the different package managers. It is also available on windows; and on MacosX via the Fink installer. Once there, Imagemagick gives you many tools to edit, resize, transform images. One of them is <em>convert</em> that takes a file in input and converts it into (nearly) any format. In our case, a simple conversion was not enough since we wanted also to transform the white colour into a transparent background. The following command did the trick for one image:
<blockquote>convert myfile.tiff -transparent white myfile.png</blockquote>
To apply it to a whole directory of images and keep the filenames, we had to include it in a small shell script:
<blockquote>
<pre>#!/bin/sh
for file in `ls | grep tiff`
do
convert "$file" -fuzz 5% -transparent white "${file}.png"
echo "writing ${file}.png"
done</pre>
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The <em>fuzz</em> parameter makes it possible to give transparency to 'nearly-white' pixels.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Who's Afraid of Adobe? - Not me, says the Mozilla foundation.</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[As we <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?page_id=2">already mentioned</a> in this blog, Adobe owns many of the (proprietary) tools used by designers nowadays: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and after having acquired Macromedia, it also owns Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, etc. Monopoly rhymes with monoculture.
<img id="image160" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/endoflife.png" alt="End of life for the SVG player" />
However, Adobe has not always been the enemy of free formats. A recent example being the <a href="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/">viewer for SVG</a> they released when Flash was still a product from a competitor. <a href="http://hritcu.wordpress.com/2005/04/20/will-adobe-still-support-svg/">Logically</a> the support for the SVG viewer is now discontinued, Flash having become an asset of the company. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html">End of life</a>.
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A complementary explanation could be that the SVG format is also read natively within a major open-source browser, firefox. Who needs a <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/svg-developers@yahoogroups.com/msg10022.html">plugin anymore</a>?
If we applaud the development of the SVG support within firefox, we regret that the softwares that have been developed specifically for the <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/svg-developers@yahoogroups.com/msg10011.html">functionnalities</a> added to the Adobe's SVG plugin may end with the software itself or will need to be rewritten. As the source code for the SVG player has not been published under a free license, we end up in a paradox: the programmers that wrote code for the functionalities specific to the Adobe's player chose SVG because it was free and open, but the player was itself a black box. And now, part of this code will be locked in this box because the same functionalities are not present in the firefox implementation. The Adobe viewer will be removed from the download area of adobe.com and the license doesn't allow for redistribution.
Why wouldn't Adobe donate the code of its SVG player to firefox? Wouldn't it be better than to simply drop it? An alliance between proprietary software giant and one of the open source biggest achievement may seem odd. But it is already happening for another product and it makes the news. Adobe announced it would donate the code of its javascript engine, under the name <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html">Tamarin</a>, to the Mozilla foundation that is behind firefox. This reflects the renewed interest of the company for the open source software. What Cnet.com calls a "<a href="http://news.com.com/Adobe+dipping+toes+into+desktop+Linux+waters/2100-7344_3-5435397.html">quiet effort to become more involved with desktop Linux</a>".
Contrarily to what has been said here and there, Adobe is not giving the code for the flash player to firefox but an important component that will help the open source browser to interpret more efficiently the javascript code and therefore boost the Ajax development.
From <a href="http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/11/tamarin_comment.cfm" target="_blank">JD on EP</a>, a series of interesting comments:
<blockquote>Frank Hecker (Mozilla staffer) offers a great orientation to the Adobe engine and the collaboration, particularly oriented to those in the Mozilla community. "Note that Tamarin is not an open source version of the Flash player; it is simply the virtual machine embedded within Flash Player 9, and does not include all the other components that make up Flash (including the bits that display graphics and play music and video). Adobe will continue to develop and distribute the Flash player on its own as a product separate from Firefox itself... The current SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine (used in Firefox, etc.) will not be replaced, as it does more than just provide a virtual machine; rather the Tamarin code will be integrated into SpiderMonkey. On compilers, the current SpiderMonkey engine can convert JavaScript to byte code, but does not have the ability to convert byte code to native machine instructions; this is a major feature that Tamarin provides... Not only do we gain an important new piece of technology that's critical to our products, we and Adobe both gain the benefit of being able to more closely work together on ECMAScript language technology and avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts; this in turn will allow both the Mozilla project and Adobe to put more resources into other areas important for future innovations." [via Mike Potter]</blockquote>
To summarize:
<blockquote>So this has nothing to do with putting Flash into Firefox. Firefox users will still require the Flash plugin to run SWFs. But contributing a high-performance virtual machine for a type-checked, object-oriented language is still a big deal!</blockquote>
<blockquote>"AJAX in Flash, with a Web 2.0 hype engine. May god have mercy on us all."</blockquote>
To end this post about Adobe and open source software, it is still worthy to recap some info about the alternatives to produce flash movies with open source tools:
Open source flash on linux:
<a href="http://osflash.org/linux?s=linux">http://osflash.org/linux?s=linux</a>
Flash from PHP with Ming:
<a href="http://www16.brinkster.com/gazb/ming/index.html">http://www16.brinkster.com/gazb/ming/index.html</a>
And last but not least, to throw an eye on this article based on an interview with Paul Betlem, senior director of engineering for Adobe, who explains 'Why Flash 9 for Linux is taking so long':
<a href="http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/2138216&from=rss">http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/2138216&from=rss</a>
But why you would use open source tools to lock your software in a proprietary format will be the subject of another post.
Thanks to <a href="http://www.constantvzw.com/cn_core/guests/g2.php?&var_in=314">Peter Westenberg</a> to have sent me precious informations.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>I want a green apple</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/i-want-a-green-apple</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, technically not open-source related... but I think this campaign deserves all designers' attention. In a nice mock of Apple's iLife design + writing, Greenpeace reminds us that not all that is wireless comes without footprint. Calling all bloggers, taggers, social bookmarkers and other <em>cool</em> people to the rescue, Greenpeace thinks they might convince Apple to change their policy on toxic waste, production and short product cycle:
<a href="http://www.greenmyapple.org/"><img id="image161" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/apple150x60.jpg" alt="apple150x60.jpg" /></a>
<a href="http://www.greenmyapple.org/"><strong>http://www.greenmyapple.org/</strong></a>
More in-depth information on computers and toxic waste by the <a href="http://svtc.etoxics.org/">Sillicon Valley Toxic Waste Coalition</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The same illustration that got us to post about <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=156">image scripting</a>, also brought up an interesting discovery plus a feature/plug-in for Inkscape.
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<small>Detail of illustration for Mute Magazine. <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/constant_web20.jpg">Click to view .jpg</a> or <a href="http://www.constant.irisnet.be/~constant/snelting/web4.0.zip">download complete zipped .svg file + images</a></small>
<strong>Lock layer</strong>
It is often helpful to lock an object (in this case the glow in the background), so that when you move things around, you do not have to worry about whether it stays at the right place. Quickly done with Inkscape, but unfortunately not as easily undone. The only way to unlock, is to open up the document in an editor, look for the line describing the locked object, and then delete the line: <code>sodipidi:insensitive</code>. Pfff...
<strong>Collect for output</strong>
Inkscape does not embed images, but links to them. It is therefore fast to work with (especially when using many images and layers as is the case with this illustration) but not easy when you have to send out the file to a printer or someone else - there is no way to check whether one of the images is missing.
Pim Snel <a href="http://facility.lingewoud.nl/hacks/inkscape_save_as_zip/">wrote an extension</a> to collect all bitmaps, create relative links to them in the Inkscape document and zip everything up in one go. Wonderful! A description of how to use the script at <a href="http://">Jakub 'jimmac' Steiner's weblog</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[well, inkscape does have lock layer, you just have to insure that you have split you work up into diffrent objects (see the layer menu/ Ctrl-Shift-L/ mini layer editor in the bottem status bar)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[wauw mooi plaatje
super die engeltjes en in het groot doet ie het goed,
misschien een goede achtergrond voor dit blog?
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hello,
I just checked the links to the Pim Snel extension and it not up anymore.
I found the script here:
http://www.pdf.umb.sk/elearn/ECDL/grafika/inkscape/share/extensions/svg_and_media_zip_output.py]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>Conversation with Ricardo Lafuente</em>
<strong>Ricardo Lafuente</strong> looks at the way typography, (open source) tools and design economies feed off and into each other. In a few weeks he will publish his text here for you to download. In the mean time, read a few of the ideas we exchanged by e-mail. Comments are of course more than welcome!
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<em>RL: I am interested in the way designer's tools, particularly the typographer's, from letterpress to software, have influenced/defined the whole production system.</em>
FS: I think you're right to start thinking about the (r)evolution of type tools, by looking at the interrelation between tools for designing (digitizing?) type, systems for their distribution, and tools for output. It means looking at the development of Fontographer, of typefoundries, but also at the history of Postscript. Although all of these elements are intimately connected, each of the tools in the chain is operated upon by other professionals with different aims.
In Pandora's Hope (1999), Bruno Latour argues that objects and subjects can not be viewed as separate from each other, in other words -- we have been shaped by our artifacts as much as we have shaped them:
<blockquote>Who or what is responsible for the act of killing? Is the gun no more than a piece of mediating technology? ... Which of them, the gun or the citizen, is the actor in this situation? Someone else (a citizen-gun, a gun-citizen) ... You are a different person with the gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it.
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<em>RL: Besides a historical reference as to the evolution of those tools, I also want to delve upon how the availability/cost/dimensions of the design tools actually shape the design activity.</em>
The main 'cost' in producing typography is time; time needed for development, for proofing and for apprenticeship. Now the price of tools such as Fontographer Fontforge is relatively low or even gratis, digital proofing systems are widely available and there's other materials to design in/with than carving marble, lead molds or photographic systems... all that's left is human hours spent on drawing a typeface or tuning kerning tables.
In that way, the process of developing a typeface is in some aspects similar to developing software and I think typographers should seriously look at open source developments, because it could help in imagining another future than erasure or control. Sharing the work could actually work for typography.
<em>RL: What is the role of those tools in shaping the market and professional relationships (e.g. the way availability/cost/size of tools helped change the environment from craft to commodity)?</em>
FS: I do not think typographic craft has become commodified; the craft has changed and the commodity has changed with it. Again, if you think of type as software, the shift makes sense if you parallel it to the way commodity functions in software (Microsoft vs. MySQL: not that the latter is necessarily more sympathetic, but to base profit on service seems to make more sense than to base profit on distrust)
<em>RL: Since Gutenberg, drawing and printing tools have progressively become more accessible and less bulky. Today, free software means we have access to free tools with no larger a physical footprint as the computer that hosts them. Rid of its physical and economical restraints, what is a design tool today, and more importantly, what can it be? What implications does this have to the whole design field?</em>
With print-to-plate systems, or the way screen typography is (hopefully) developing, you could say that also printing is close to being incorporated. To me the most exciting effects of this convergence of tools, is that in theory design, distribution and use are melting into each other. It could potentially radically change the way typo(graphic) practice works. A designer is not necessarily an authority and the user becomes potentially more than a consumer.
<em>RL: I also found an interesting concept that can help sustain the issue of de-physicalisation (horrible term) of the tools - Radovan Richta's concept of technological evolution and its consequences (particularly, the importance of the switch from manual to mental labour): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_evolution</em>
FS: I am not so sure whether this shift from physical to mental labour should be taken that literally when it comes to software for (type)designers, and whether de-physicalisation is a useful term. Someone like Katherine Hayles writes about the embodiment, and materialization of knowledge beyond the physical in ways that seem to link to the practice of design. In <em>Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand</em>, Malcolm Mccullough describes how tools shape our perspective, i.e. how physical and mental work inform each other:
<blockquote>Tool usage simultaneously involves direct sensation, provides a channel for creative will, and affirms a commitment to practice. The latter is quite important: only practice produces the most lasting and satisfying form of knowledge.</blockquote>
and later on:
<blockquote>A tool directs your attention. Its function becomes your focus: as the saying goes, when you hold a hammer, all the world looks like nails.</blockquote>
(Or should we say with Latour that when you hold a gun, everyone looks like potential victim... ;-))
Physicality shifts place, but we still have bodies: hands operating keyboards, trackpads; eyes that judge, limbs suffering from RSI. To often, craft is made synonymous with 'handmade' and software ubiqutous – in short: craft is not solely manual, and software is not body-less
Maybe those two truisms could help rethink craft beyond the patriarchal master-apprentice system that is still en vogue with typographers. The problem with type-design is, that it is often thought of as signature; writing in purified form. But in a networked world this cannot be the only way to do type. Typographers, while using digital tools for longer than most of us, have a hard time to let go of a closed model of authorship, and a hierarchical approach to teaching. I am not sure why it the stereotypical image of the lonely, ascetic, male typographer fighting against all odds for the survival of an undervalued secret craft seems so necessary to be maintained.
<em>RL: Is the market model and the typographer/designer's activity accounting for this evolution, or is it lagging behind? And what would be a feasible alternative that could account for authorship safeguards? And why should it be open?</em>
FS: I am convinced that a more progressive form of licensing, and an open source approach to the development of typefaces is absolutely necessary for typography to survive. The amount of policing necessary to check illegal copies would be absurd. It is impossible but most of all undesirable to technically protect typefaces; this form of Digital Rights Management will come at the cost of typographies fluidity and ability to be truly embedded.
Also, typefaces are getting more complicated now since they are often shared over multiple computers with different locales and operating systems. So it seems important to engage in a collaboration with people across borders to continue to develop typefaces fit for todays texts (I do not think we have enough typography already!). Think about networked typography, dynamic type, print on demand... When the bezier curves and kerning tables are made available to be studied, adjusted, discussed by communities of people I think this could mean a whole new life for an old discipline.]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<small>Contribution by <a href="http://www.geuzen.org">De Geuzen</a> in <a href="http://www.skor.nl/article-2883-en.html">Open magazine</a> about <em>Travail Mobile</em>, a workshop for <a href="http://www.stormy-weather.be/digitales-2006/?lang=en">Digitales</a>.</small>
After the<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=127"> Crash Test-post</a> a few month ago, finally pictures of the result!
Thanks to Peter Linnell (one of the main Scribus developers), who after I posted about some <a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-September/019932.html">Postscript troubles</a> to the Scribus mailinglist, came to the rescue on IRC.]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell discuss the future of Free and Open Source Software for commercial printing:
<blockquote>Right now, I would say the biggest weakness from an FOSS point of view is there are few good high quality fonts. It is one of those areas which requires tremendous amounts of QA to make them reliable in the commercial print world. This is highlighted throughout our documentation.</blockquote>
(QA = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_assurance">Quality Assurance</a> ;-))
Read the interview here: <a href="http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=fosdem-interview-scribus">http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page...</a>]]></content:encoded>
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A widely used proprietary color-system such as Pantone, obviously raises questions for Open Source graphic tools. Gregory Pittman writes:
<blockquote>* Obviously, no one, including Pantone, can copyright a color, and especially in these days where the RGB/CMYK color systems are freely usable -- ie, you can't put a claim on RGB color "ef9824".
* They <strong>can</strong> copyright the names and the connection with their inks.
* They want to control the ability of anyone to connect some other color system to Pantone names or inks. My guess is about all they can really do is attempt to keep you from using their color/ink name, as in "this matches Pantone Keepsake Lilac or Pantone 15-2705" (their current color of the day). Understandably they don't want someone else feeding off the system they have created.
* <em>What it really begs for is someone to establish another system (open of course) with its own names which might in some way link up to Pantone and other inks, with the attached disclaimer that no promise is made that this product exactly matches any proprietary color or ink.</em></blockquote>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Appropriation has been a recurring and accepted strategy in defining typography as activity and business. We can pinpoint four cases where appropriation has definitely been key in defining landmarks in the history of type, not only aiding the breaking of technical and creative boundaries but also helping to question legal and moral ones.
We'll go on to briefly analyse the current situation in typography, focusing on the approach to the subject by corporations, users and designers. The current business model (digital foundries, font files with copyrights) is, as we'll argue, a remnant of a time where a typeface filled a whole drawer and fails to account for the necessary changes that the information age demands; we'll conclude with the definition of an essentially contradictory business model that has very strong stands against "font forging" and copyright issues, although it has historically - and now, more than ever - thrived on constant, and often uncredited, appropriation of ideas and designs.
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<strong>1. Appropriation in type through history</strong>
<ul><li>The Gutenberg press </li>
<li>Stanley Morison and Monotype</li>
<li>Arial</li>
<li>Segoe</li></ul>
<strong>2. The digital typography paradigm</strong>
<ul><li>Corporate type</li>
<li>User type</li>
<li>Designer type</li></ul>
<strong>3. Tweaking and reviving
4. Technology on arcane standards
5. What now
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<em>a. Notes
b. References
c. Online references</em>
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<strong>1. Appropriation in type through history</strong>
We could certainly identify many more instances of inspiration or downright copying of ideas in typography, but these four cases will suffice to demonstrate the different uses of copy, inspiration and appropriation in general. Our focus here will be on the issue of creative appropriation (inspiration) on one hand, and corporate business models and copyright issues (plagiarism) on the other.
<strong>i. The Gutenberg Press</strong>
In 1450, Johannes Gutenberg produced the first commercially viable model of his printing press, which was widely used for centuries until the advent of the Linotype machine, the first way to automate, though partially, the type setting and printing process.
Gutenberg's press was the result of the combination of five key methods and processes, three - possibly four - of which were not original:
<ul>
<li>The screw press, which was already used by the Greeks and Romans to process olive oil and wine.</li>
<li>Block printing, present in China since 594 AD. Gutenberg's innovation was to use metal cast types (instead of the Chinese traditional woodblock printing), although metal typecasting was already developed in Korea around 1230 AD.</li>
<li>Letter punches, which were a goldsmithing technique - Gutenberg was a goldsmith - used to engrave letters in metal pieces.</li>
<li>Letter replica casting, a method to quickly create new individual characters, along with a particular metal alloy that made for durable pieces. This method has been attributed to Gutenberg but recent studies shed doubts on this fact.</li>
<li>Metal-adherent ink, devised by Gutenberg.</li>
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This shows that originality is not a straightforward issue, in a time before copyrights existed (it was not before 1700 that the first copyright statute appeared in Britain), the protection of ideas could have changed the fate of this invention. the combination of methods made. What matters here is that they were combined in a way that made typography as we know it possible, and there seems to be absolutely no question to the legitimacy of this invention, which was made possible by appropriating previous methods and processes. Gutenberg's model of printing stood firm for centuries until the Linotype machine introduced partial automation of the printing process.
<strong>ii. Stanley Morison and Monotype</strong>
On 1886, the Linotype machine began to be produced by the Mergenthaler Printing Co. in the United States. It wouldn't take long, though (a year) for Lanston Monotype to begin production of their own fully-automated typesetting machine, devised by Tolbert Lanston.
In 1922, <strong>Stanley Morison</strong> was appointed as typographic advisor of the Monotype Corporation (the British branch of the Philadephia company), a post he would keep until 1967. The Monotype Corporation built an extensive catalog of cuts made by Morison from classic references, such as Bodoni, Bembo, Baskerville, and several others. These revivals helped to bring general interest to the old masters' works, besides consisting of a general market strategy to try to push up the value of the Monotype machine - the faces available would definitely determine the decision of a buyer who fancies a particular style, and thus the Monotype Corporation had no qualms about recruiting all the classics (which were in the public domain).
It is tremendously unfair, though, to portray Morison as a hijacker - he was one of the hallmarks of 20th century type, being responsible for the creation of Times New Roman and hugely influencing the field of typography to the present day by the efforts he dedicated to bringing the classics to the general public - legitimately appropriating other designs. Without Morison's endeavour, our legacy would certainly be poorer today.
<strong>iii. Arial, Monotype and Microsoft</strong>
1982 is the year in which the <strong>Arial</strong> typeface was released by Monotype Typography (Monotype Corporation's type design division). Designed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, this typeface had a remarkable issue. Not only does it have obvious similarities to other modern sans-serifs (sharing features with Helvetica, Univers and Akzidenz Grotesk), it exactly mirrors the glyph width tables from Helvetica, which is the data included in a font file that describes each character's dimensions. An exact match that gives little chance for coincidence.
Microsoft licensed Arial from Monotype instead of the more expensive Helvetica, and in 1990 it was bundled with Microsoft Windows 3.1. It has been a staple of Windows systems until today. This is a specific case where a typeface was chosen not by its genuine creative and/or practical value but by external reasons, in this case backed by financial motives. Type designers are almost unanimous in shunning Arial as a lesser typeface: it is notably absent from Robert Bringhurst's typeface selection in <em>The Elements of Typographic Style</em> (the current all-around reference on type design from the designer's perspective), and is also only mentioned as a passing remark on Robin Nicholas's entry on the typographic encyclopedic survey by Friedl et al[1]. This is pretty much a clear notion of the type designers' community on the Arial issue; it's also worth noting that there has been, however, no attempt to replace Arial as a standard font in operating systems[2].
In strict legal/copyright terms, it's appropriate to compare the Arial case to a cheating student who argues that the fact that his exam has exact passages from his nearest classmates' exams owes to coincidence. It's reasonable to argue that borrowing from three sources rather than just one does not make the situation more acceptable.
So Arial stands in mixed principles: the type community is almost unanimous in calling shenanigans, but it still made its way to our current operating systems despite that fact - it never met any legal actions.
<strong>iv. Segoe</strong>
In early 2006, Microsoft announced a significant effort to dignify type design in their upcoming Vista operating system: six type designers - Lucas de Groot and Robin Nicholas figuring among them - were comissioned to design appropriate typefaces for screen and print. The result was six very attractive fonts that not only could appeal to general uses by less savvy people, but also soothe the type designers' fancy.
Another font included in Vista is Segoe, a revival of Frutiger Next (which in turn is a revival of Frutiger) that Microsoft licensed from Monotype and altered. It's not the first case in which Adrian Frutiger's work has been remade: Adobe's Myriad and Apple's Podium Sans also bear a striking resemblance to Frutiger's structure. When Microsoft registered Segoe in Europe in 2004, Linotype sued for copyright infringement since European law, unlike the American one, recognises the rights to font designs (although patent law is often used to circumvent this legal void in the US).
The most significant fact is that Microsoft based their defense not on the issue of originality - stating the differences between Segoe and Frutiger Next, but on the fact that Linotype wasn't selling its typeface in Europe when the request was filed. This situation could very well be interpreted as an admission by Microsoft's part that the font in fact owes credit to Frutiger's design.
This case becomes all more revealing in that it's a high-profile and current example of an attempt to settle the authenticity of a type design in courts. Unlike Arial, it didn't sneak past the critics and found serious hurdles while Microsoft tried to implement it in its Windows OS. A verdict on the Segoe case is expected in early 2007.
<strong>2. The digital typography paradigm</strong>
Typography, and type design in particular, is historically defined by a constant recursion of past themes and trends, be it as inspiration - revivals - or as a way to question them - as in post-modern type examples, such as <a href="http://www.emigre.com">Emigre</a>'s or <a href="http://www.davidcarsondesign.com">David Carson</a>'s work. Nevertheless, modern designs still owe heavily (with or without credit) to a tradition of arts and crafts spanning five centuries.
Meanwhile, on the last 20 years, the type world hasn't ceased discussing the issue of rights and plagiarism, a discussion that was sparked by the digital revolution and the introduction of the personal computer as an all-purpose design and production tool. This shift implied that the tools used in typography and book production ceased to be the sole domain of type makers, printers and book publishers - the only ones that could afford the initial investment of a type foundry, workshop or printing press and manage it effectively. Designing type soon became cheaper and cheaper, as the physical footprint of the new tools gradually became smaller and smaller. Nowadays, a computer and a printer can do in minutes what a huge phototypesetting equipment would have taken a lot of time, effort and money to produce 10 years ago.
The most important effect of the digital revolution in type design is that typefaces became fonts - a radical change in that they were no more lead blocks but data, files that describe how each glyph should be drawn on screen or on a printer. <a href="http://fontforge.sf.net">FontForge</a>, a free software solution to type design, was released in 2004, doing away with any software costs involved in font creation and editing, meaning the only overhead for a type design business would be a PC, paper, drawing tools, an image-capture device (scanner or camera) and eventually an Internet connection. This change has massive repercussions in the whole typography market: now type design wouldn't, in theory, require any kind of intermediaries between the typographer/designer and its audience. Reality developed otherwise, as we will see from three standpoints in typography usage and creation.
<strong>i. Corporate Type</strong>
The digital revolution made a deep re-definition of most areas of study possible. We will show, though, that the field of typography has been lagging behind when it comes to taking advantage of the digital medium. Moreover, the corporate business model has failed to account for the specific needs and features of information technology, sticking to an artificial market sustained by an inflated value attributed to digital files as if they still were physical objects that are owned.
Nowadays, there are three major players in the type business: Microsoft, Adobe and Monotype Imaging.
<strong>Apple Computer</strong> hasn't been a key figure in the type market (concentrating on developing font technology for its operating system), but it had an essential role in developing the actual playing field. Apple heralded the personal computer era in with their original Macintosh and has intermittently collaborated and competed with Microsoft and Adobe, being responsible for the development of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType">TrueType</a> font format along with Microsoft as a response to Adobe's high-priced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1_Font">PostScript Type I</a> font description format. The release of TrueType in 1991 forced Adobe to gradually reduce prices and eventually follow suit, releasing the PostScript specifications so that software developers could implement it without limitations in their programs.
<strong>Adobe Systems Inc.</strong>, besides being responsible for a highly successful suite of imaging and DTP software, has a very strong position in the type market: not only is it a type vendor (through its typography division, Adobe Type) but also the most influential company in the sense that it owns most digital design solutions - especially after acquiring its main rival Macromedia in April 2005 and facing no significant competition in its market.
<strong>Microsoft</strong> is responsible for creating the most widely used operating system, as well as the most popular office suite. Along with Adobe, Microsoft developed the currently dominant OpenType file format, which is freely available to developers as long as they agree to the licensing terms. Adobe converted its entire type collection to OpenType in a move to spread the new standard.
<strong>Monotype Imaging</strong> is now a distant remnant of Tolbert Lanston's original creation. It has adjusted technical breakthroughs in the 20th century and claimed a staunch position in today's digital type market. It was acquired by Agfa in 1999 forming Agfa Monotype, which in turn was acquired by TA Associates (a North American investment firm), changing its name to Monotype Imaging and developing a position in font software and rendering engines, and also securing a strong standpoint in the font vendor market after acquiring its rival Linotype (and the rights to their entire type collection).
<strong>ii. User Type</strong>
Most people get introduced to digital type by means of text editors. The digital revolution would be the perfect reason to finally open typography to everyone and make it a mainstream subject instead of a limited-access craft. Things have happened otherwise, though, and the inability to create a suitable interface for allowing basic experimentation with type has severely crippled the possibilities of the new medium.
The font selection paradigm has changed little during the years, offering a whole collection of typefaces in a drop-down menu. Such is the immediateness of digital type: It's just there, no need to open drawers with thousands of lead characters. Users are encouraged, by means of a simple GUI, to just pick their font and get to work on their document. Even more: you don't even need to pick, just stick with the default choice the software maker's made for you. Word processing interfaces also assume the user doesn't want to be bothered with layout choices such as margins, structure - and they also make the choice for us (incidentally, they also made it quite awkward to change these defaults). In short: the standard word-processing interface tells users to not bother with type.
This paradigm helps to build the general perception that a font is a finished, shrink-wrapped and untouchable product - pretty much like prepackaged software. Although font files can be opened and edited as long as we have an appropriate editor, most typeface editors are either crude or catering exclusively to the type designer market. The user usually isn't able to reach the underpinnings and intricacies of type, instead being expected just to understand that the default template is more than enough.
Such an approach to software designing effectively discourages any kind of interest in typographic issues by the general public, and helps to fuel the thought that fonts are "just there". It's worth noting that there is still no easy and streamlined way to buy, install and use fonts, unlike most other digital markets - iTunes would be a good example of that kind of market strategy.
<strong>iii. Designer Type</strong>
The type designer community is centered on the study of classical and modern examples and making attempts to postulate theory and practical guidelines for the craft of type design, sitting somewhere between the methods of architecture and those of poetry.
<a href="http://www.identifont.com/show?13A">Fred Smeijers</a>'s analysis of the type designer's duty, in his manifesto <strong>Type Now</strong>, is quite straightforward. On the issue of responsibility of type designers and commitment to specific guidelines, he states that "a type designer cannot escape this responsibility of judgment (...). In the end, people - the society - either accept it or they don't"[3]. Society, it seems, would be the ultimate judge of whether a typeface is a hallmark of craft or doomed to failure.
On the other hand, we find a curious account on Smeijers's description on Fontana, a typeface by Ruben Fontana inspired by Meta [4]: he describes it as "uncomplicated", "tres sympathique", "sunny" and "open minded". This certainly sounds more like a description of a person or a song than that of an object, and indeed sheds some doubt on the touted objectiveness of good type design in the sense that it seems unable to find serious and objective terms to classify a typeface's features. Historical categorisations of design tendencies vary from author to author, and although there are some widely used terms to describe historical periods and typeface features, such as "transitional type" or "slab serifs", there's a tendency to borrow from poetry and music to identify a type family's "soul" (which, though relevant from an artist or a historian's point of view, is rather unscientific).
This is not a contradiction, though, since we can distinguish between type as a creative activity (in which there would be no problem with this kind of analogy) and type as an industry and commodity (where profit, market tendency, shareholder demands and legal requirements imply that things have a definite value and purpose). Naturally, Smeijers's interest is on the craft and art of typography, and not the market and the economic relationships that it spawns. On the other hand, our interest is definitely that which Smeijers doesn't care for.
We need to account that defending the status of type as a functional solution to practical problems requires an objective set of rules that derive from the way we read and write. We cannot yet account for matters of objective legibility while we don't possess all information on our mental processes and the mechanisms in the brain involved in acquiring and processing written information - this is the field of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
We know, from history, that a text with generous linespacing will certainly read better than other with no linespacing at all. The German blackletter used by Gutenberg in his Bible, however, is almost unreadable to a contemporary westerner's eyes and definitely alien to someone from a non-Western background. In the fifteenth century, though, it was certainly the norm. History can help to avoid repeating mistakes, but it also shows the relative importance of our current standards.
In short, we still cannot objectively define type, and won't be able to before a major breakthrough in neural science. However, copyright issues and legal matters impose formal specifications on what a font is and what it is not. Whether a typeface is a tweak, a revival or a work of art is left to the courts.
<strong>3. Tweaking and reviving</strong>
In order to explain the type designer's first reluctance to embrace the digital alternative, and also understand how design processes are not as straightforward as they are presented to us, we'll concentrate on Fred Smeijers's account on the current state of events in typography. Specifically, we'll borrow his term <strong>font tweaking</strong> [5]. This process consists of loading a font, "tweaking" it - altering small details - and releasing them with different names, thereby circumventing copyright laws (US law protects font names as trademarks, but not font designs). Smeijers is clear in pointing that font tweakers have nothing to do with type design at all, reinforcing the distinction between doing type as a labour of love and doing it for a profit.
Font revivals, on the other hand, are re-interpretations of existing designs, and our best example would be Morison's effort in bringing the classical designs into the Monotype type library. Revivals matter to us because they aren't original productions (as they draw inspiration from existing designs) but aren't copies either (because no rights over them could be warranted otherwise, since there would be no original idea).
Digital type foundries and vendors still maintain the tradition, digitising and redoing the old masters' work. It's worth noting that even if a certain typeface, such as those with expired copyrights, resides in the public domain, anyone can make a digital version - a revival - and claim the rights to it.
Digital type catalogues are rife with revivals: In Bringhurst's inventory of digital foundries[6], we can find 14 that issue revivals, and 4 that only release original designs. This interest in resuscitating previous designs also has motives that stand apart from simple typographic archaeology. Revivals are routinely issued by vendors and foundries to protect the rights of the rightsholder when a typeface's copyright is about to expire. Such is the case with Avenir LT, Adobe Garamond and Frutiger Next - which is what allowed Linotype to retain the rights to the original design and be able to sue Microsoft.
Revivals reside in a kind of legal in-between - some, like Arial (which is more a tweak than a declared revival), manage to stick around; while others, like Segoe, raise copyright lawyers' eyebrows.
Given these two aspects, one cannot but wonder that a type designer wouldn't be thrilled with this perspective. One has also to question why there is such a rift in reactions between font tweaking and font revivals, which can be interpreted as no more than corporate font tweaking. A practical example of this is MyFonts.com's description of the Avenir LT font (<a href="http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/avenir-lt/">link</a>, down the page) - a "recut version of Avenir", stating that "The 'LT' was added to the name as the metrics differ from the original version". This definitely corresponds to Smeijers' description of font tweaking, despite the fact that the name change wasn't intended to avoid legal troubles, but to assert the brand of the author of the revival. What is a revival, then, other than a corporate-sanctioned font tweak?
<strong>4. Technology on arcane standards</strong>
The current terminology used in typography is also a clear signal of how it still depends on former traditions instead of adapting to its new medium.
Digital typography's rules and terminology have been determined by its physical counterparts, and that still hasn't changed. For example, we still talk about "leading" - a term for the spacing between lines that takes its name from the lead strips used for that purpose - although the term "line spacing" is gradually replacing it in user-oriented applications such as Microsoft Word.
Another example: while type foundries got that name because of their heavy use of metal, single-person studios with Macs are still referred to as "foundries". And fonts are described as being "cut" or "cast", more than "digitised". We talk about "digital versions" instead of digital copies, perhaps to preserve their history and soul and not treat them as just another file in a user's computer.
Although we can forgive this persistence in using traditional typesetting terms (mayhap as a historic homage), it also is a symptom that the type activity and business have failed to redefine themselves for the digital medium. On the other hand, these examples can actually be interpreted as quite an artificial and linguistic way to value the work of the typographer, probably with the aim of distinguishing between "true" type designers and mere font tweakers, and not let "true" typography be contaminated by the creeping tweaker threat.
<strong>5. Now</strong>
Given that digital type is hanging around for thirty years, the progress in improving on font technology and taking advantage of the digital medium has been rather dim. On the other hand, type designers in general (with the exception of rare cases such as <a href="www.emigre.com">Emigre</a> or <a href="http://www.letterror.com/">Letterror</a>) have not tried to get to grips with font technology, rather limiting themselves to drawing and tracing their designs in Fontographer and selling them on major font vendors (<a href="http://www.myfonts.com">MyFonts</a>, <a href="http://www.fonts.com/">Monotype</a>) or independent ones (such as <a href="http://www.t26.com/">T26</a> and <a href="http://www.veer.com/">Veer</a>). Worse still, issues of originality and plagiarism have been discussed in type design circles, but corporate entities break them routinely while trying, at the same time, to assert their rights in courts.
The difference between major and minor vendors is not substantial: though distributors like Veer try to create a community and improve on the users' and designers' experience compared to major sellers through research, designer spotlights and support, digital typefaces are still regarded in an esoteric limbo between metal characters and abstract data. And though the price tags have steadily declined (and recently stabilised in the 20 dollar range in general), it is revealing that business models like iTunes or Flickr, or collaborative methods in producing typefaces (many typographers are still lone workers) haven't shown up yet, and that file formats have changed so little in the face of recent, sleeker solutions like XML and SVG. And there's little hope for innovation: the Adobe-Macromedia and Monotype-Linotype mergers have paved the ground for a corporate monoculture ruled by software and typeface vendors and distributors, with very little margin for competition.
We can also point a mutual apathy between commercial developers and designers as a possible reason - type designers try to adapt to outdated ways - file formats and type tools - to create their works, while developers lag in keeping up to date to new breakthroughs. Limiting the tools is limiting the imagination.
On the other hand, font vendors have an incredibly contradictory stance regarding font rights, using copyright law to protect their products while violating it to borrow from others'. The different fate of Arial and Segoe begs the question: are the vendors and distributors handling this as it should be handled?
This model's obvious contradictions definitely invite serious questioning as to the legitimacy and validity of the current type market and business model, which cannot effectively release its standards and technology because of the threat of competition. It's therefore left to users, designers and independent developers to shape a new way of defining type and creating effective communication channels between providers and users, be it through online communities or real-world discussion in type designer's circles and colleges.
If type takes the free/open source route - <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/">the</a> <a href="http://www.typeforge.net/cms/">wheels</a> <a href="http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/">are</a> <a href="http://robofab.com/ufo/index.html">already</a> <a href="http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/#licence">in</a> <a href="http://freefontmanifesto.blogspot.com/">motion</a> - how can type vendors sustain their profit margins and their markets? With open fonts and free font-editing software around, there would be little doubt that typography can take a very interesting turn. Could we also see the open approach and the business approach coexist, catering to specific users' needs, whether amateur or professional? And, finally, will the type world come to terms with the fact that appropriation and use of other's ideas have defined the activity since its beginnings, and that it implies a serious rethinking of concepts such as authorship, plagiarism and author's rights?
<em>[Note: this text was written as part of my MA studies at the Piet Zwart Institute. Please <strong>do</strong> post any comments or corrections in the comment box below!]</em>
<strong>a. Notes</strong>
[1] Friedl, Ott, Stein: Typography: An encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques through history. (p. 409)
[2] Arial is now a "standard" font of web typography, being part of a very limited set of fonts that all browsers can read.
[3] Smeijers, Fred: Type Now. (p.25)
[4] id., p. 40
[5] id., p. 32
[6] Bringhurst, Robert: The Elements of Typographic Style. (p.309)
<strong>b. References</strong>
<ul>
<li>Bringhurst, Robert: The Elements of Typographic Style. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks, 2002.</li>
<li>Smeijers, Fred: Type Now. London, Hyphen Press, 2003.</li>
<li>Friedl, Ott, Stein: Typography: An encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques through history. London, Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998.</li>
<li>Steinberg, S.H., and Trevitt, John: Five Hundred Years of Printing (4th Revised edition). London, Oak Knoll Press, 1996.</li>
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<strong>c: Online references</strong>
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<li><a href="http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html">The Scourge of Arial</a> by Mark Simonson (background and critical account on Arial)</li>
<li><a href="http://redir.internet.com/!search/itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3599861">"Is Microsoft's Vista Font Just a Copy?"</a> by Brian Livingston (news article on the Segoe legal case)</li>
<li><a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3601421">"Designer Says Vista Font Is Original"</a> by Brian Livingston (followup on the previous story)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/#FORGERS">The Funny Font Forging Industry</a> - A Report for Legal Authorities by Ulrich Stiehl (an aggressive take on font tweaking and appropriation)</li>
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We'll go on to briefly analyse the current situation in typography, focusing on the approach to the subject by corporations, users and designers. The current business model (digital foundries, font files with copyrights) is, as we'll argue, a remnant of a time where a typeface filled a whole drawer and fails to account for the necessary changes that the information age demands; we'll conclude with the definition of an essentially contradictory business model that has very strong stands against "font forging" and copyright issues, although it has historically - and now, more than ever - thrived on constant, and often uncredited, appropriation of ideas and designs.]]></excerpt:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[At the <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM</a> (Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting) conference in Brussels, two <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/">openSuse</a> developers presented their research on usability of <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a> desktops.
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Their testing methods consists of interviews, questionnaires, screen recordings plus precise video documentation of a group of 10 people trying to accomplish 12 tasks using various desktop systems (KDE classic, KDE reloaded and Windows Vista). Besides looking for 'succes rate' and 'accomplishment time', they also measured 'the hedonic aspect' which I thought was pretty interesting. The <a href="http://www.attrakdiff.de/">AttrakDiff standard</a> (which is in itself a proprietary method ;-)) measures 'pleasure' i.e. the joy of using a system. Instead of asking: 'Did the interface do what you expected', it tries to find out whether it was an interesting experience. Which of course could also mean, that the system did the opposite of what you thought it would do.]]></content:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>A little note on <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=183">Appropriation and Type text</a>.</em>
Gutemberg printed the first book with movable type in 1455. Maybe copyright wasn't existing at the time, but there was, and there is still, a fight for the first inventor of the printer machine in Europe. Castaldi is alleged to have created movable type in 1442 (inspired by the use of glass letters made in Venice and used by scribes to print large first letter on page. Gutemberg knew that invention from Faust, one of his student.)
One mythical story about the creation of printing press is a robbery. Laurens Janszoon Coster was a important citizen of Dutch city Haarlem. He discovered the movable type while playing with his grandchildren, cutting pieces of wood in shapes of letters. Realizing the possibilities of this, Coster improved the system with good ink and metal letters, and soon started to print books. Business florishes, worksmen are employed. But while the Coster family were at church on Christmas Eve 1441, employee Johann broke into the printing office and stole presses and types. He fled to Mainz, where he immediately sat an office and print. Some version tells it was Johannes Fust, the partner of Gutenberg (and who scrooge him later on).
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Fust was formerly often confused with the famous magician Dr Johann Faust, who, though an historical figure, had nothing to do with him.
Not to mention the fact that the first printed font was an imitation of monastic script blackletter.
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Read in "The Secret History of Letters", Simon Loxley, ed. I. B. Tauris, 2006
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[This Coster can be considered as a propaganda figure. This happened when the netherland were just created. Having a national hero such as the inventor of movable type press was a great opportunity... "Ideas don't have to be true to bring good results."]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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"FE-Schrift or fälschungserschwerende Schrift (falsification-hindering script) has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates in Germany since November, 2000. It was designed for the German government in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Fraction terrorist activities, when it was discovered that with the then standard font for vehicle registration plates (DIN 1451 road-sign font) it was particularly easy to modify letters by applying a small amount of black paint or black insulating tape. For example, it was easy to change a "P" to an "R" or a "B", or an "L" or "F" to an "E". Modifications to FE-font plates are somewhat more difficult as they also require the use of white paint, which is easily distinguished at a distance from the peculiar retroreflective white background of the plate, in particular at night."
From:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Gregory]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Fabrizio Schiavi wrote a small essay on this particular subject back in 2002:
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<title>Monopolios Artificiales sobre Bienes Intangibles</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<a href="http://nomade.liminar.com.ar/">Nomade</a>, an Argentinian group of artists using Free Software, just finished a printed publication on intellectual property, plus a detailed tour through the process: <a href="http://nomade.liminar.com.ar/wakka.php?wakka=MaBI&v=der">http://nomade.liminar.com.ar/wakka.php?wakka=MaBI&v=der</a>
Included: design sketches, illustrations, description of the pre-press process, final pdf's and a html version. Of course everything Open Source. Very nice!]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting</a>, taking place May 4-6 in Montreal, Canada, OSP members Harrisson and Femke will speak about FLOSS and design: <strong>Relaying Systems - Why designers should be interested in FLOSS</strong>. The programme is <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/program.html">here</a>!]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/gill.thumbnail.jpg" alt="gill.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.networkcultures.org/networknotebooks/">The Institute of Network Cultures</a> published an insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/genderInstitute/whosWho/profiles/gill.htm">Rosalind Gill</a>. <strong><em>Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web</em></strong>, is based on 40 'semi-structured' interviews with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information architects, ...). Her study reveals the often precarious situations web workers find themselves in, but most of all her analysis and critique of their (our?) egalitarian self-image, makes it a Must-Read.
<blockquote>"It is striking to see that two of the three people who commented on this issue (racism - FS) were themselves immigrants to The Netherlands; it simply did not seem to be visible or worthy of comment to others of our participants - a tendency which tells us a great deal about the normalization and power of whiteness."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/17.pdf">Download the publication</a>
Lecture Rosalind Gill <a href="http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/videos/day_2/encoded/1mbs/22_gill230205.mp4">http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/videos/day_2/encoded/1mbs/22_gill230205.mp4</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Small technical question: how do you preview this video with firefox using ubuntu?
VLC stutters...]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>The Flow of Text in MasterPages</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivan]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The scripting in Scribus happens in the house of <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a>. The Scribus module is loaded into scripts with the standard <em>import scribus</em> or <em>from scribus import *</em>. In this post, we'll be using only one function off this module:
<code>createText(x, y, width, height)</code>
This function puts a TextBox of the specified width and height at the <em>(x, y)</em>-coordinates of your document. <a href="http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=scripterapi-object">This</a> is its documentation.
The TextBoxes of Scribus Templates are eerily insular. Since we really didn't find a way to make text flow in Scribus MasterPages, we were forced to write a script. It builds on a script that was posted some time ago on the Scribus <a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-December/014475.html">mailing list</a>.
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We have added an alternate to the Flow of Text that may be useful to the users of the script. The TextFlow in the original is fine, but ours is fine, too. To push the Text as a River metaphor a bit further: the text must flow, and we're redirecting it with a Dam.
To see the difference, it's probably best to run the script itself. Fetch the <a href="http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~ilopez/TextBoxes.py">TextBoxes.py</a> and <a href="http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~ilopez/Boxes.py">Boxes.py</a> files, and put them in the same directory. Open Scribus and load a document. Things will only work if there's already a Scribus document open.
<code>even = [[30, 30, 10, 10], [50, 50, 20, 20], [80, 80, 30, 30]]</code>
<code>odd = [[30, 240, 10, 10], [50, 210, 20, 20], [80, 170, 30, 30]]</code>
The above are the lines in Boxes.py where you specify the size and position of your TextBoxes. It uses the same units as your Already opened Scribus document. Note that you can have different layouts for odd and even pages. Once you've written a layout, execute TextBoxes.py from the aptly named <em>Script</em> menu.
Boxes.py may be the only file that you will need to edit. It has a couple of other <em>tweakable</em> parameters. Explore : )]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sneak preview of what New OSP might look like:
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Or like this:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Success_stories#All_print_stuff_for_a_small_theatre_in_Dresden.2FGermany]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Soundscape goes Inkscape</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The new maxi vynil from <a href="http://odessa-music.be/">Odessa</a> 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 sound production and composition. Hopefully soon to be heard at your local dance club!
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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After installation you can start the manager, which is a GUI for the Defoma package, from the command line. Type <code>sudo dfontmgr</code> (you need to be root to make changes to fonts). It does not look very pretty but installing and uninstalling fonts should now be easy.]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Out of the veil</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 and/or black. And it's not not interesting.
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<title>Montreal Flight Discoveries</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 02:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a title="af.jpg" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/af.jpg"><img class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/af.thumbnail.jpg" alt="af.jpg" /></a>While on our way to the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics Meeting</a> in Montreal we've done a quick test of Scribus 1.3.4cvs and ... good news!
Major New Feature No.1: possibility to add character styles (besides paragraph styles) and a general clean up of the way styles work. More testing needed, but interface and direction taken look promising.
For a description of the character style feature have a look at this article on the Scribus Developers' blog: <a href="http://rants.scribus.net/2006/11/19/putting-styles-into-context/">Putting styles in context</a>
Major New Feature No.2: cropmarks, bleedmarks, and most of all: the possibility of exporting pdf's including overlap. This solves many of the '<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wiki/doku.php?id=scribus:riys">Rock In Your Shoe</a>' problems we were running up against while converting Mute Magazine into Scribus.
This version, which is a development version, is not altogether stable to say the least, but the future looks bright.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[nicolas]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>copy.cult@constantvzw.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[hello Femke,
Testing scribus in airplanes, now. Next version from cvs needs to be tested in a spaceship!
I wonder if style hierarchy has introduced some change in the .sla format itself. Can you upload a sample document in the wiki when you have a second?
best from brussels
,n]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>In Canada</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/in-canada</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 22:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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La conférence d'<a href="http://blogue.jaunorange.com/index.php?post/2007/05/08/Notre-premiere-annee-de-graphisme-100-libre">Alexandre Robin</a> a LGM
<a href="http://www.ipsa.ca/">Association internationnale en science politique.</a>
Design Graphique, administration reseau, dévelopement web, Alexandre à choisi de travailler en OS plus par goût que par économie.
Une présentation enthousiasmante, menée dans un protocole tout "corporate" il apparait aussi que le sujet était: "comment j'ai caché à mes collègues que je faisais toute la communication de la l'entreprise en Open Source".
Alexandre a fait son "coming out" (open source) le mois dernier, et la philosophie Linux est presque comprise par son boss.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Alexandre]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>alexandre@jaunorange.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hé hé ! J'ajouterais que je suis fier de mon boss : "presque" comprendre le logiciel libre, c'est être en avance sur la majorité écrasante des patrons du Québec ! :)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Il est vrai que l'explication de la philosophie open source est toujours un peu compliquée à formuler simplement. Cela mériterait la création d'un outil / document d'explication prosaique...]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Smooth curves drawing font revolution?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Spiro is a toolkit for curve design, especially font design, created by Raph Levien. It is a smooth alternative to the wide known Bézier curves... It is VERY impressive using.
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Dave Crossland and Nicolas Spalinger (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL">OFL</a> – <a href="http://www.fontly.com">Fontly</a>) demoed a chain of process: a script that takes a scanned sample of fonts, contrast it, then recognises and chops automaticaly the glyphs, and import them as background for Spiro PPEDIT application. You can then use the spiro to draw the outlines, in an easier and smoother way than beziers (and reducing the amount of points). Automatisation of the work process is a terrible gain of time, and made me dream the whole night. The spiros curves are accepted by Fontforge, and tranformed as editable beziers curves... On linux systems, files produced by ppedit are immediately send to the famous font editor...
<a href="http://www.levien.com/spiro">levien.com/spiro</a>
A MacOs version has just been released: enjoy the incredible souplesse of the curves manipulation. The tensions angles seems to be very automatised - and are difficult to stress, but I hardly tryed it... You can't save the curves done... yet. Some more info will be released this week!]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Sammy]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Fixed - thxs]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 12:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Understanding » Blog Archive » Transcript of the Interview with the FontForge author]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] Source Publishing has also recently published a transcript of their excellent interview with George Williams, the primary author of [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Crea tipografias digitales « Kelineth’s Weblog]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] George Williams, el artífice del programa. La entrevista está también disponible en audio (vía Open Source Publishing): primera y segunda partes (mp3.) También puedes encontrar información completa en el sitio [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[James Bailie]]></wp:comment_author>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 06:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Montreal, 4-6 May 2007</strong>
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/squirl.JPG' title='squirl.JPG'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/squirl.thumbnail.JPG' alt='squirl.JPG' class="float" /></a>An intense meeting of demos and how-to’s – LGM takes place in three fairly intimate rooms in the Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Montreal, which means we have enough time and opportunity to ask our questions, set up interviews, discuss bread baking with developers, designers, typographers, researchers gathered.
The university is located on the slopes of the Mont Royal so between presentations we spot skunks and squirls in the park.
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It is both inspiring and strangely intimidating to meet the makers of many familiar tools: The Scribus team is present in full force, key developers of Blender, Gimp and Inkscape are around and speak about their tools with infectiuous enthusiasm. We need to make a bit of an effort to make people understand that our interest goes beyond feature requests and bug reports. Collective charm needed to convince George Williams, developer of FontForge, to do an interview with us. “I have nothing interesting to say” he keeps telling us during the Grand Supper. Well, he finally agreed to an interview <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=221">so judge for your selves</a>.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/inkscape.JPG' title='inkscape.JPG' class="float"><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/inkscape.thumbnail.JPG' alt='inkscape.JPG' /></a><strong>Friday 4 May</strong> we land in LGM with a talk by Bryce Harrington + team, presenting a history of Inkscape in screen shots (<a href="http://www.bryceharrington.org/lgm07/">slides</a>), and an overview of ways FLOSS projects are usually structured. Inkscape is according to Bryce Harrington based on a 'hive' model; a relatively unstructured coming and going of high energy collective work. Bryce ends with presenting the upcoming release of Inkscape 0.46. New features will amongst others include: gradient in typography / etching effect / print dialogue. He also brings up Inkbook – decentralized, networked drawing in .svg; interesting stuff.
Jakob Steiner demos Inkscapes' ability to produce photo realistic illustrations, such as Motorola phones and shiny racing cars thanks to blur, transparency and mask functions.
Of the more strange but fascinating kind: Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov reverse engineer the Corel Draw image format. Their hallucinating travels through endless bin-hex dumps show, that also for them, structure reveals itself through transformation. Igor presents CDR-Explorer, a tool to visualize binary formats for reverse engineering purposes. The Explorer allows you to look at a raw file as if you look at a folder structure, which facilitates the understanding of its various building blocks.
Peter Linell starts his talk on Scribus with telling about his first encounter with developer/initiator Franz Schmidt. He portrays Scribus as a program built around robust + safe pdf-export. Linell goes in to various new features, amongst which the ability to import layered Photoshop images, and ways to process images inside Scribus – duotone etc. can now be edited from inside the software. Apart from the ability to add bleed and registration marks, he presents The Color Wheel, including the ability to pre-visualise a document as seen by someone with various flavors of colorblindness (this feature deserves its own post!). Andreas Vox follows with the new lay-out system (NLS), in Scribus, explaining the transition from old, convoluted code via a 'legacy mode' in to the New Lay-out System. Character styles, word spacing and optical alignment are amongst new additions. In the near future we can expect paragraph optimisation for hyphenation too.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/orange.JPG' title='orange.JPG' class="float"><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/orange.thumbnail.JPG' alt='orange.JPG' /></a>The evening is reserved for the Grand Souper LGM with live music and convivial atmosphere in the very orange patio of the Ecole Polytechnique.
The OSP presentation is planned early morning on <strong>Saturday May 5</strong>. We speak about the relation between tools and what they produce; about creativity and efficiency, using the tale of the frog that turned into a prince (text and images follow!). The small audience that is present in the lecture room early enough, seems pleased though slightly surprised by our unorthodox approach.
In one of the classrooms reserved for LGM, Karin Delvare (The Gimp) tours through different layers of participation in FLOSS projects and explains amongst others the art of doing a bug report. In the main hall, Hubert Figuiere speaks about how to organise images using metadata; his presentation is concluded with a discussion about various media/supports for archiving.
Michael Terry from the University of Waterloo is involved in developing InGimp. This software automatically archives userdata / behavior for the purpose of usability studies. Interesting was that the system makes log files automatically publicly available (leaving out any data that might breach privacy), allowing developers to analyse incredible amounts of ultra precise data on for example the amount of time spent on certain tasks, patterns of access, combinations and successions of tasks. As a gadget / feature the team developed a 'dynamic profile visualisation' – basically a stick figure with representations of assumed tasks, of ways of working.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/cedric.JPG' title='cedric.JPG' class="float"><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/cedric.thumbnail.JPG' alt='cedric.JPG' /></a>Back in the classroom, Cedric Gémy (<del datetime="2007-05-14T08:11:11+00:00">responsible</del> contributor to Inkscape and Gimp documentation) demonstrates with élan the possibilities of using free standards and open source software, moving from Inkskape to Blender to Gimp to Scribus; Boudewijn Rempt and Cyrille Berger show new functionalities of Krita, a simple image editor with the ability to do for example realistically behaving watercolour images (colours actually blend!) and dry brushtrokes.
For the presentation of Alexandre Robin: <em>Our first year of Graphic Design 100% Open Source</em>, <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=223">see this OSP post</a>.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/spiro.JPG' title='spiro.JPG' class="float"><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/spiro.thumbnail.JPG' alt='spiro.JPG' /></a>Dave Crossland (designer, lecturer) and Nicolas Spalinger (SIL) speak about the Open Font License, and the way metadata on fonts could reflect these licenses. They spend the second part of their presentation showing Spiro which caused great enthusiasm in the audience.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/linnell.JPG' title='linnell.JPG'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/linnell.thumbnail.JPG' alt='linnell.JPG' class="float"/></a>In a lively Q +A session, Peter Linnell demonstrates the robustness of Scribus in a prepress context, explaining the set-up of PDF export and how 'self-defensive-code' is employed to please even the most conservative printshop requirements. To his mind often faulty fonts are the cause of output problems – Scribus therefore is ultra careful with loaded fonts; it is the reason why a first start-up is slow; each font is checked glyph by glyph before it is added to the list.
The day ends with a crisp presentation of Raphael Meltz, <a href="http://www.le-tigre.net/">Le Tigre</a>, a French monthly magazine entirely layed-out in Scribus. Raphael shows Le Tigres' work flow of both their monthly print and daily pdf-publication; including a rudimentar end-to-end solution between SPIP (a web based Content Management System) and Scribus. Raphael was clear about their economical and philosophical motivations for using FLOSS, without being shy about the possible problems and difficulties, which had most of all to do with html import-export issues.
At the end of the day we interview Nicolas Spalinger and Pierre-Luc Auclair (contributor to the Deja-Vu font project). The evening FLOSS font enthusiasts gather in Concordia University to watch <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com">Helvetica</a>, a full length documentary on the modernist typeface premiering in Montreal.
<strong>Sunday May 6</strong> starts gently with a private tutorial on Inkscape and Scribus by Cedric Gémy; we talk lay-out with Raphael Mertz.
The second presentation this weekend by Igor Novikov is even more exciting, demonstrating SK1, a vector illustration programme, specifically for prepress. SK1 offers solutions for many problems with CMYK export we find in other programs. Their user interface is refreshingly different and their set of sample images fantastic. Discussing the history of the program (a fork of Skencil), shows that the Ukraine context requires its own approach. That is more or less the subject of the interview we do later with Igor and Valek.
Andy Fitzsimon impresses with his virtuosity in Inkscape (glassy icons galore!) but most of all with his intelligent approach to the management of translatable design elements across multiple languages. Making use of .svg, he manages to employ the .po format (used in many translation projects) to translate styled typography. We are also interested in his use of the xml-editor as design tool.
Jon Phillips presents <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">The Open Clipart Project</a>, and most of all <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost">ccHost</a>, a sort of repository system where images, sounds and other files licensed under Creative Commons can be made available for download; making direct connections from applications such as Inkscape to ccHost ('save to ccHost'). George Williams (FontForge) was interested to add the possibility to direct upload fonts from FontForge too.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/bof.JPG' title='bof.JPG'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/bof.thumbnail.JPG' alt='bof.JPG' class="float"/></a>After the conference is officially over, a BOF is (Birds Of Feathers: developers gathering) organised on type management and its future.
About 10 developers involved in projects relevant to typography, gather around the table for an intense session on standards, the workings of fontconfig ... Exciting to witness how everyone seems to come up with <em>real</em> proposals that will undoubtly alter the future of using fonts on linux systems.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/breakfast.JPG' title='breakfast.JPG' class="float"><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/breakfast.thumbnail.JPG' alt='breakfast.JPG' /></a>We spend <strong>Monday morning</strong> interviewing Andreas Vox about Scribus and Igor and Valek about SK1 and Ukrainian software culture; soon here on OSP.]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Steven BREWER]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>limako@bierfaristo.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_date>2007-05-06 12:45:28</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[I was really impressed by seeing the community of people you bring together in your workshops and projects. At the University where I teach, it has been difficult to build such a community. And <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/limako/486263922/" rel="nofollow">here is the picture I took</a> while you were struggling with the projector.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Femke]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_author_IP>213.214.43.247</wp:comment_author_IP>
<wp:comment_date>2007-05-10 22:32:47</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Thanks Steve!
http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=15541&g2_navId=x6f5e72f2
Valek - if you want to contact OSP:
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?page_id=241]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Valek]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>dent.artur@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://www.gnome.ru</wp:comment_author_url>
<wp:comment_author_IP>74.102.225.89</wp:comment_author_IP>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hej Harrisson!
How to contact you?
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Cheers,
Valek
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[LGM2007 More Complete at rejon.org]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_author_url>http://rejon.org/2007/05/13/lgm2007-more-complete/</wp:comment_author_url>
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<wp:comment_date>2007-05-13 22:28:57</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[[...] is a much more complete overview of LGM2007 than I provided. I must admit, I get a bit fatigued always taking detailed notes of all the [...] ]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[cedric gémy]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>radar.map35@free.fr</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://www.cgemy.com</wp:comment_author_url>
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<wp:comment_date>2007-05-13 23:13:18</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[ah, i didn't know i was Responsible of anything. To be honest, this could be in fact true for Inkscape since i'm alone on it ;) but really not for Gimp. This is certainly more Roman Joost's place who actually did a really nice job this year with this documentation.
CU soon]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_id>2861</wp:comment_id>
<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Igor Novikov]]></wp:comment_author>
<wp:comment_author_email>igor.e.novikov@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
<wp:comment_author_url>http://sk1.sf.net</wp:comment_author_url>
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<wp:comment_date>2007-05-12 20:01:25</wp:comment_date>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hi.
A small notice: we named author of initial cdr2svg script as "Richard Huggies" but should be "Richard Hughes". Sorry for this misprint.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Liberation fonts</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 14:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A news found on <a href="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Linuxhelp</a>:
<blockquote>Visit any random website and chances are the website expects your machine to have a set of fonts which have become the de-facto standard on the Internet. The fonts being Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New and so on. While it may not be illegal to install these fonts on a Linux machine, they are propritery and are owned by Microsoft. And Microsoft does not licence third parties to redistribute these fonts - a reason why you don't find these commonly used popular fonts installed in Linux by default.
This is going to change once and for all.
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Red Hat in association with Ascender Corp has developed a set of fonts which are the metric equivalent of the most popular Microsoft fonts, and they have released it under the GPL+exception license. </blockquote>
Read <a href="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/05/metric-equivalent-of-microsoft-fonts.html" target="_blank">the full article</a>
A few more details from the Redhat press release:
<blockquote>To address this issue and to take a key step toward liberating desktops, Red Hat contracted with Ascender Corp., one of the leading commercial developers of fonts, to develop a set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the key Microsoft fonts. Under the terms of that development agreement, Ascender retains rights in the fonts and can provide them under a traditional proprietary license to those who require such a license, e.g. printers that have fonts embedded in their firmware, but Red Hat receives a license that permits us to sublicense the fonts at no cost under the GPL+font exception. The fonts are being developed in two stages. The first release is a set of fully usable fonts, but they will lack the fully hinting capability (hinting adjusts font pixelization so that the fonts render with high quality at large and small sizes) provided by TrueType/FreeType technology. That release is now ready. The second release will provide full hinting of the fonts, and that release will be available by the end of the calendar year.</blockquote>
Read <a href="http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/" target="_blank">the details of the press release</a>.
And last but not least, <a href="https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/" target="_blank">download the first version of the fonts from here</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Further Liberation.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 09:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[If we check the font infos of Liberation font, on Fontforge, for example, here is what we find:
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Copyright Ascender Corp...
and a trademark: <em>"Liberation is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and certain other jurisdictions."</em>. In the license text of the ttf font package, we find: "<em>Copyright © 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. LIBERATION is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.</em>", and the license text is GPL.
Still, the license informations says:
<em>"Use of this Liberation font software is subject to the license agreement under which you accepted the Liberation font software."</em>
Interesting as well: Liberation Sans seems to have been created in 1970, while all the others in the pack were in 2004 or 2005.
Liberated fonts are not exempt of paradoxes...
Looking forward, the owner of rights of this font are <a href="http://www.ascendercorp.com/">Ascender Corporation</a>, <em>"leading provider of advanced font products specializing in type design, font development and licensing"</em> company, which offers services such as Font Branding.
you can also contact their "Font Licensing Specialists"
Sure designer <a href="http://www.ascendercorp.com/stevepage.html">Steve Matteson</a> knows exactly the font system specs - and what he does: "<em>...in 1990 he began work at Monotype to create the Windows core TrueType fonts: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New</em>". He designed a.o. Xbox 360 Branding Fonts and is part of the Segoe Vista font team development.
By the way, there is no Comic-Sans-like font in the L-pack. Which designer will have the honour of drawing it?]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[So, it means you can copy, distribute or modify the Liberation fonts under the gpl license if you get the font from a linux distribution, and the trademark is there to an assure an unalterable original name. A free Comic Sans would be an important philosophical statement.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[hello Harrisson,
The way I understand all this...
What happens is that the Ascender Corp. uses dual licensing in this case. As does Mysql or Trolltech. It means that they license these fonts under the gpl OR under a closed license if you want it.
- If you acquire them under the terms of the GPL, if you want to redistribute them, you have to do it under the same conditions.
- If you want to redistribute them together with a closed-source package, you will have to buy a license.
This is the meaning of:
“Use of this Liberation font software is subject to the license agreement under which you accepted the Liberation font software.”
This wikipedia article gives an overview of the possibilities of dual licensing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_licensing
I can't wait for a free Comic-Sans
,n]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[A free Comic Sans? Maybe freeing up the fonts http://bancomicsans.com/fonts.html or using something like http://betatype.com/node/19...]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 13:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Conversation with Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov (SK1)</strong>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Marina Vishmidt in: <a href="http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Dutch-Are-Weeping-in-Four-Universal-Pictorial-Languages-At-Least">The Dutch Are Weeping in Four Universal Pictorial Languages</a> (Mute, May 2007)]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 07:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Interview with Andreas Vox, Scribus-developer</strong>
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/andreas.JPG' title='andreas.JPG'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/andreas.thumbnail.JPG' alt='andreas.JPG' class="float" /></a>While in the background participants to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 start saying goodbye to each other, Andreas Vox makes time to sit down with us in the hotel lounge. We want to talk to him about Scribus, the open-source application for professional page layout. Not only as users that do design with it, but also because Scribus helps us think about links between software, free culture and design.
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Andreas is a mathematician with an interest in system dynamics, who lives and works in Lübeck, Germany. Together with Franz Schmid, Petr Vanek (subik), Riku Leino (Tsoots), Oleksandr Moskalenko (malex), Craig Bradney (MrB), Jean Ghali and Peter Linnel (mrdocs) he forms the core Scribus developer team. He has been working on Scribus since 2003 and is currently responsible for redesigning the internal workings of its text layout system.
Other interviews with the Scribus team:
<a href="http://dot.kde.org/1096453300/">http://dot.kde.org/1096453300/</a>
<a href="http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=fosdem-interview-scribus">http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=fosdem-interview-scribus</a>
OSP: <em>This weekend Peter Linnel presented amongst many other new Scribus features [<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Version_1.3.4%2B_-_New_Features">1</a>], The Color Wheel, which at the click of a button visualises documents the way they would be perceived by a colour blind person. Can you explain how such a feature entered into Scribus? Did you for example speak to accessibility experts?</em>
A: I don't think we did. The code was implemented by subik [Petr Vanek], a developer from the Czech Republic. As far as I know, he saw a feature somewhere else or he found an article about how to do this kind of stuff, and I don't know where he did it, but I would have to ask him. It was a logic extension of the colour wheel functionality, because if you pick different colours, they look different to all people. What looks like red and green to one person, might look like grey and yellow to other persons. Later on we just extended the code to apply to the whole canvas.
OSP: <em>It is quite special to offer such a precise preview of different perspectives in your software. Do you think it it is particular to Scribus to pay attention to these kind of things?</em>
A: Yeah, sure. Well, the interesting thing is... in Scribus we are not depending on money and time like other proprietary packages. We can ask ourselves: is this useful? Would I have fun implementing it? Am I interested in seeing how it works? So if there is something we would like to see, we implement it and look at it. And because we have a good contact with our user base, we can also pick up good ideas from them.
OSP: <em>There clearly is a strong connection between Scribus and the world of pre-press and print. So, for us as users, it is an almost hallucinating experience that while on one side the software is very well developed when it comes to pdf-export for example, I would say even more developed than in other applications, but than still it is not possible to undo a text-edit. Could you maybe explain how such a discrepancy can happen, to make us understand better?</em>
A: One reason is, that there are more developers working on the project, and even if there was only one developer, he or she would have her own interests. Remember what George Williams said about FontForge... [<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=221">2</a>] he is not that interested in nice Graphical User Interfaces, he just makes his own functionality... that is what interests him. So unless someone else comes up who compensates for this, he will stick to what he likes. I think that is the case with all open source applications. Only if you have someone interested and able to do just this certain thing, it will happen. And if it is something boring or something else... it will probably not happen. One way to balance this, is to keep in touch with real users, and to listen to the problems they have. At least for the Scribus team, if we see people complaining a lot about a certain feature missing... we will at some point say: “come on, let's do something about it”. We would implement a solution and when we get thanks from them and make them happy, that is always nice.
OSP: <em>Can you tell us a bit more about the reasons for putting all this work into developing Scribus, because a layout application is quite a complex monster with all the elements that need to work together... Why is it important you find, to develop Scribus?</em>
A: I use to joke about the special mental state you need to become a Scribus developer... and one part of it is probably megalomania! It is kind of mountain climbing. We just want to do it, to prove it can be done. That must have been also true for Franz Schmid, our founder, because at that time, when he started, it was very unlikely that he would succeed. And of course once you have some feedback, you start to think: “hey, I can do it... it works. People can use it, people can print with it, do things ... so why not make it even better?”
Now we are following InDesign and QuarkXpress, and we are playing the top league of page layout applications ... we're kind of in a competition with them. It is like climbing a mountain and than seeing the next, higher mountain from the top.
OSP: <em>In what way is it important to you that Scribus is free software?</em>
A: Well... it would not work with closed software. Open software allows you to get other people that also are interested in working on the project involved, so you can work together. With closed software you usually have to pay people; I would only work because someone else wants me to do it and we would not be as motivated. It is totally different. If it was closed, it would not be fun. In Germany they studied what motivates open source developers, and they usually list: 'fun'; they want to do something more challenging than at work, and some social stuff is mentioned as well. Of course it is not money.
OSP: <em>One of the reasons the Scribus project seems so important to us, is that it might draw in other kinds of users, and open up the world of professional publishing to people who can otherwise not afford proprietary packages. Do you think Scribus will change the way publishing works? Does that motivate you, when you work on it?</em>
A: I think the success of open source projects will also change the way people use software. But I do not think it is possible to foresee or plan, in what way this will change. We see right now that Scribus is adopted by all kinds of idealists, who think that is interesting, lets try how far we can go, and do it like that. There are other users that really just do not have the money to pay for a professional page layout application such as very small newspapers associations, sports groups, church groups. They use Scribus because otherwise they would have used a pirated copy of some other software, or another application which is not up to that task, such as a normal word processor. Or otherwise they would have used a deficient application like MS Publisher to do it. I think what Scribus will change, is that more people will be exposed to page layout, and that is a good thing, I think.
OSP: <em>In another interview with the Scribus team [<a href="http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=fosdem-interview-scribus">3</a>], Craig Bradney speaks about the fact that the software is often compared with its proprietary competition. He brings up the 'Scribus way of doing things'. What do you think is 'The Scribus Way'?</em>
A: I don't think Craig meant it that way. Our goal is to produce good output, and make that easy for users. If we are in doubt, we think for example: InDesign does this in quite an OK way, so we try to do it in a similar way; we do not have any problems with that. On the other hand... I told you a bit about climbing mountains... We cannot go from the one top to the next one just in one step. We have to move slowly, and have to find our ways and move through valleys and that sometimes also limits us. I can say: “I want it this way” but then it is not possible now, it might be on the roadmap, but we might have to do other things first.
OSP: <em>When we use Scribus, we actually thought we were experiencing 'The Scribus Way' through how it differences from other layout packages. First of all, in Scribus there is a lot more attention for everything that happens after the layout is done, i.e. export, error checking etc. and second, working with the text editor is clearly the preferred way of doing layout. For us it links the software to a more classic ways of doing design: a strictly phased process where a designer starts with writing typographic instructions which are carried out by a typesetter, after which the designer pastes everything into the mock-up. In short: it seems easier to do a magazine in Scribus, than a poster. Do you recognize that image?</em>
A: That is an interesting thought, I have never seen it that way before. My background is that I did do a newspaper, magazine for a student group, and we were using Pagemaker, and of course that influenced me. In a small group that just wants to bring out a magazine, you distribute the task of writing some articles, and usually you have only one or two persons who are capable of using a page layout application. They pull in the stories and make some corrections, and then do the layout. Of course that is a work flow I am familiar with, and I don't think we really have poster designers or graphic artists in the team. On the other hand... we do ask our users what they think should be possible with Scribus and if a functionality is not there, we ask them to put in a bug report so we do not forget it and some time later we will pick it up and implement it. Especially the possibility to edit from the canvas, this will approve in the upcoming versions.
Some things we just copied from other applications. I think Franz (Schmid) had no previous experience with Pagemaker, so when I came to Scribus, and saw how it handled text chains, I was totally dismayed and made some changes right away because I really wanted it to work the way it works in Pagemaker, that is really nice. So, previous experience and copying from another applications was one part of the development. Another thing is just technical problems. Scribus is at the moment internally not that well designed, so we first have to rewrite a lot of code to be able to reach some elements. The coding structure for drawing and layout was really cumbersome inside and it was difficult to improve. We worked with 2.500 lines of code, and there were no comments in between. So we broke it down in several elements, put some comments in and also asked Franz: “why did you did this or that”, so we could put some structure back into the code to understand how it works. There is still a lot of work to be done, and we hope we can reach a state where we can implement new stuff more easily.
OSP: <em>it is interesting how the 2.500 lines of code are really tangible when you use Scribus old-style, even without actually seeing them. When Peter Linnel was explaining how to make the application comply to the conservative standards of the printing business, he used this term 'self-defensive code'...</em>
A: At Scribus we have a value that a file should never break in a print shop. Any bug report we receive in this area, is treated with first priority.
OSP: <em>We can speak from experience, that this is really true! But this robustness shifts out of sight when you use the inbuilt script function; then it is as if you come in to the software through the back-door. From self-defence to the heart of the application?</em>
A: it is not really self-defence... programmers and software developers sometimes use the expression: 'a user should not shoot himself in the foot'. Scribus will not protect you from ugly layout, if that would be possible at all! Although I do sometimes take deliberate decisions to try and do it ... for example that for as long as I am around, I will not make an option to do 'automatic letter spacing', because I think it is just ugly. If you do it manually, that is your responsibility; I just do not feel like making anything like that work automatically. What we have no problems with, is to prevent you from making invalid output. If Scribus thinks a certain font is not OK, and it might break on one or two types of printers ... this is reason enough for us to make sure this font is not used. The font is not even used partially, it is gone. That is the kind of self-defence Peter was talking about. It is also how we build pdf-files and postscript. Some ways of building postscript take less storage, some of it would be easier to read for humans, but we always take an approach that would be the least problematic in a print shop. This meant for example, that you could not search in a pdf [OSP: because the fonts get outlined and/or reencoded]. I think you can do that now, but there are still limitations; it is on the roadmap to improve over time, to even add an option to output a web oriented pdf and a print oriented pdf ... but it is an important value in Scribus is to get the output right. To prevent people to really shoot themselves in the foot.
OSP: <em>Our last question is about the relation between the content that is layed-out in Scribus, and the fact that it is an open source project. Just as an example, Microsoft Word will come out with an option to make it easy to save a document with a Creative Commons License [<a href="http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5947">4</a>]. Would this, or not, be an interesting option to add to Scribus? Would you be interested in making that connection, between software and content?</em>
A: It could well be we would copy that, if it is not already been patented by Microsoft! To me it sounds a bit like a marketing trick ... because it is such an easy function to do. But, if someone from Creative Commons would ask for this function, I think someone would implement it for Scribus in a short time, and I think we would actually like it. Maybe we would generalize it a little, so that for example you could also add other licenses too. We already have support for some meta data, and in the future we might put some more function in to support license managing, for example also for fonts.
About the relation between content and OSS software in general... there are some groups who are using Scribus I politically do not really identify with. Or more or less not at all. If I meet those people on the IRC chat, I try to be very neutral, but I of course have my own thoughts in the back of my head.
OSP: <em>Do you think using a tool like Scribus produces a certain kind of use?</em>
A: No. preferences for work tools and political preference are really orthogonal, and we have both. For example when you have some right wing people they could also enjoy using Scribus and socialist groups as well. It is probably the best for Scribus to keep that stuff out of it. I am not even sure about the political conviction of the other developers. Usually we get along very well, but we don't talk about those kinds of things very much. In that sense I don't think that using Scribus will influence what is happening with it.
As a tool, because it makes creating good page layouts much easier, it will probably change the landscape because a lot of people get exposed to page layout and they learn and teach other people; and I think that is growing, and I hope it will be growing faster than if it is all left to big players like InDesign and Quark... I think this will improve and it will maybe also change the demands that users will make for our application. If you do page layout, you get into a new frame of mind... you look in a different way at publications. It is less content oriented, but more layout oriented. You will pick something up and it will spread. People by now have understood that it is not such a good idea to use 12 different fonts in one text... and I think that knowledge about better page layout will also spread.
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[1] <a href="a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Version_1.3.4%2B_-_New_Features">http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Version_1.3.4%2B_-_New_Features</a>
[2] <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=221">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=221</a>
[3] <a href="http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=fosdem-interview-scribus">http://www.kde.me.uk/index.php?page=fosdem-interview-scribus</a>
[4] <a href="http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5947">http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5947</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do free software developers need lawyers, when reverse engineering formats such as Corel Draw? How to work on the compatibility of file formats, when risking law suits from patent holders? Should we forget about opening up proprietary formats altogether? Jon Philips takes the position that developers should 'do until done':
<blockquote>Its good to know generally the law, but not to be encumbered by it.</blockquote>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Conversation avec Pierre-Luc Auclair (Déjàvu) et Nicolas Spalinger (OFL)</strong>
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Extrait d'une conversation avec Pierre Luc Auclair, graphiste et collaborateur dans le projet de police <a href="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Déjà vu</a>, et Nicolas Spalinger, bénévole de la <a href="http://www.sil.org/">SIL</a>, équipe fontes libres Debian et Ubuntu, OFLB.
En français dans le texte, avec quelques questions posées en anglais.
Ou l'on parle de polices de caractère libres, de travail typographique collaboratif, d'apprentissage et de licences & standarts.
Liens:
<a href="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Déjà vu</a>, <a href="http://www.sil.org/">SIL</a>, <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL">OFL</a>, <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium">Gentium font</a>, <a href="http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=119">Andika font</a>, <a href="http://www.typophile.com/">Typophile</a>
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Interview: Projet Dejavu et typographie libre et collaborative
P-L: Pierre-Luc Auclair (Typographe Dejavu, Graphiste)
N: Nicolas Spalinger (Bénévole de la SIL – Equipe fontes libres Debian & Ubuntu – Open Font Library)
H: Harrisson
F: Femke
H: Tu travailles sur la fonte Déjavu (<a href="http://dejavu.sf.net">http://dejavu.sf.net</a>) c'est ça?
P-L: Oui c'est ça
H: Qui est un projet entièrement open source?
P-L: Oui, c'est ça.
H: Et ça fait déjà un moment que cette fonte existe, non?
P-L: Ca fait... Je ne pourrais pas dire depuis combien de temps exactement, ce qui est sûr c'est qu'avant c'était une fonte de Bitstream (<a href="http://www.bitstream.com">http://www.bitstream.com</a>) qui est sortie ou plutôt qu'ils ont donné au domaine du libre. Et depuis ce temps-là, des gens ont ajouté des fonctionnalités, des choses comme ça-là, plusieurs caractères, des nouveaux languages, ajusté le kerning (<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning</a>), dans le fond ajouté des éléments à la police au complet pour la rendre utilisable.
H: OK donc rajouter des éléments?
P-L: Oui.
H: Chez Bitstream, quelle a été la motivation de lâcher des fontes?
P-L: Alors ça je ne sais pas.
Nicolas: Ca été un partenariat avec la fondation GNOME (<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/bitstreamfonts.htm">http://foundation.gnome.org</a>, <a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/bitstreamfonts.html">http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/bitstreamfonts.html</a>) si je peux m'immiscer dans la conversation.
H: Oui, oui, c'est bien.
P-L: Moi je ne suis pas au courant de ça.
N: Il y a des négociations qui ont été faites entre la fondation GNOME et Bitstream le fondeur, avec des gens comme Jim Gettys (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys</a>) qui était membre du bureau de la fondation. L'idée c'est d'avoir une famille globale avec suffisamment de...
P-L: ...suffisamment de caractères pour supporter toutes les langues dans Linux avec une seule famille...
N: oui, avoir une famille suffisamment vaste, complète.
H: En faire une fonte système?
N: Enfin oui, système au sens où ça serait la fonte par défaut. Et donc ça a pris des mois quand même pour faire la négociation, entre les termes que la fonderie voulait et ce que la fondation GNOME essayait d'arracher comme droits, de modification notamment. Et donc moi j'ai suivi ça un petit peu. Parce que en même temps nous, dans le cadre de la SIL (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org">http://scripts.sil.org</a>), on réfléchissait aussi à la meilleure stratégie pour faire ça. L'idée c'était d'avoir quelque chose d'assez riche, de bonne qualité, avec du hinting - des instructions - qui soit dédié à un affichage correct sur le bureau.
H: Vous avez eu le choix entre différentes fontes ou bien c'est Bitstream qui vous a proposé juste celle-là?
N: Alors je sais pas vraiment, j'étais pas directement impliqué dans le cadre de la fondation GNOME, j'ai rejoint le projet après.
P-L: Ah oui, il connaît plus ça que moi.
N: Ha ha, non!
N: Je sais qu'ils ont approché d'autres fonderies, mais c'est Bitstream qui a offert ce qui était le plus intéressant.
H: Ah oui, donc il a eu une négociation?
N: Oui il y a eu une négociation qui a eu lieu. Donc il y a vraiment de la part du fondeur une stratégie... lls veulent s'acheter une bonne image, ce qui est légitime et ils veulent aussi protéger quelque part leur nom. Le coeur de la négociation c'était avoir des droits de modification, pour que les gens de la communauté, les typographes de la communauté puisse la modifier, l'étendre, mais que la réputation de Bitstream en tant que fonderie soit plus ou moins protégée. Donc il y a un espèce de point central, de « nexus », qui a été créé entre le droit de modification et le nom même attaché à la police, voilà.
H: Et quand on voit la license, c'est en effet toujours un copyright Bitstream avec droit de modification (<a href="http://www.gnome.org/fonts/">http://www.gnome.org/fonts/</a>)
N: Voilà, c'est un droit de modification, donc quand la modification a lieu, le faut que le nom soit changé, et dans le nom même de la police il y a le nom de la fonderie, ce qui est assez fréquent malgré tout. Donc le nom c'était Bitstream Vera et ensuite il y a les variantes. Il y a eu une grosse « press release » puisque c'est un gros pas en avant. Et donc ensuite, il y a toute une équipe qui s'est mis à travailler sur ça, il y a eu plusieurs branches de Vera et, au bout d'un certain temps, la branche la plus importante – Dejavu - a re-mergé les travaux qui ont été faits dans les autres branches. Sur le site de Dejavu il y a l'historique un petit peu des autres branches qui ont été faites (<a href="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Bitstream_Vera_derivatives">http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Bitstream_Vera_derivatives</a>). Il y a eu une branche par exemple pour les caractères en Gallois, et pour d'autres pays en d'Europe par exemple. Aussi du travail autour des capacités OpenType (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType</a>)...
P-L: oui des capacités Opentype...
N: ...pour les polices intelligentes, ce genre de chose, etc. Ce qui était impressionnant, moi, j'ai observé un peu le projet Dejavu, j'ai pas vraiment contribué, mais c'est la rapidité avec laquelle le projet a avancé.
P-L: et dans le fond, c'est probablement aussi parce qu'il y a une release tous les mois.
N: Oui c'est basé sur un rythme de release actif, tout ce qui est prêt est disponible. Il y a aussi une roadmap bien définie, les outils sont là: outil de révision de contrôle, mailing-list, wiki. L'initiateur du projet c'était Stepan Roh (<a href="http://www.srnet.cz/~stepan/en/">http://www.srnet.cz/~stepan/en/</a>), et ensuite d'autres personnes.
P-L: Je pourrais pas vraiment donner de noms.
N: Au bout d'un moment il a un peu lâché le projet et a fait d'autres choses mais il a mis en place l'infrastructure, mais là, depuis quelques temps, il est revenu. Et les leaders actuels du projet c'est Denis Jacquerye (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Denis_Jacquerye) et Ben Laenen (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Ben_Laenen), je crois, mais il y a plein de monde, plein d'autres gens, la liste des contributeurs est assez vaste. Ben Laenen a d'ailleurs sorti une police musicale, c'est celle qu'on à montré hier. (Euterpe: <a href="http://www.openfontlibrary.org">http://www.openfontlibrary.org</a>)
P-L: Ben moi je les connais avec leurs nicks IRC: lui c'est eimai.
N: Oui eimai et moyogo.
H: Elle est assez bien dessinée en plus, elle est assez jolie.
N: Ce qu'ils ont fait aussi c'est travailler sur un certain nombre de scripts de gestion des fichiers sources. Donc l'outil de base, c'est fontforge (<a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net">http://fontforge.sourceforge.net</a>), donc je ne pense pas qu'il y en ait qui utilisent des logiciels restreints, normalement tout le monde utilise fontforge.
P-L: Oui toute la source doit rester au format fontforge.
N: Pour faire la construction.
P-L: Quand il a y des modifications pour faire l'import dans la branche principale ça prend absolument le fichier source fontforge pour l'insérer dedans.
N: Il y a aussi du travail aussi sur les instructions, tout ce qui est du positionnement, les ligatures, ils sont assez en avance par rapport aux autres projects collaboratifs. Moi j'ai vu aussi qu'il y avait des scripts pour avoir les statistiques de la couverture Unicode (<a href="http://www.unicode.org">ttp://www.unicode.org</a>) du SFD (<a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/sfdformat.html">http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/sfdformat.html</a>) par exemple.
P-L: Ca aussi c'est sur le wiki
N: A chaque fois qu'il y a une release, dans le tarball il y a ce quiest couvert par bloc, donc il y a un pourcentage de couverture Unicode par bloc et on voit que ça monte vite, il y a ce qui est prévu par la suite, il y a un changelog. C'est assez riche au niveau descriptif et c'est très ouvert comme approche. Et donc l'utilisation de subversion (<a href="http://subversion.tigris.org">http://subversion.tigris.org</a>/) comme dépôt de sources pour travailler en commun dessus. Donc il y a un canal IRC (<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat</a>) et plusieurs mailing-lists (<a href="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Dejavu-fonts_mailing_list">http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Dejavu-fonts_mailing_list</a>).
P-L: Récemment il y avait quelqu'un qui essayait de refaire le script Grec, je ne sais pas vraiment ce que ça a donné, je ne me suis pas tenu au courant.
N: Alors ça j'ai pas suivi non plus.
P-L: Il avait beaucoup posté son travail sur Typophile, le site web (<a href="http://typophile.com/">http://typophile.com/</a>).
N: C'est un site web communitaire, vous connaissez peut-être oui?
P-L: Là-bas il y a beaucoup de gens, beaucoup de professionnels de la typographie, qui leur ont donné des exemples, des experts en typographie qui ont donné leur avis sur comment le projet avançait pour le script Grec. Il ont donné des conseils. Il y a eu un gros débat: est-ce qu'on va plus vers une esthétique du style romain ou alors est-ce qu'on va plus vraiment vers une esthétique grecque locale? Ca c'est toujours un problème, c'est la même chose aussi j'imagine pour les scripts chinois et les scripts japonais.
N: Connaître le degré de sensibilité culturelle pour un bloc particulier Unicode de la police, ça c'est très très dur. Même les meilleurs designers ne peuvent pas avoir une sensibilité suffisante. Plus la police est riche, plus elle couvre de blocs, plus c'est dur justement. Parce qu'il y aura forcément des tensions. Certains blocs sont communs à différents styles. C'est là où ça devient dur d'avoir dans la même police et mettons du cyrillique qui doit avoir un style pour une communauté linguistique qui parle une une langue dans laquelle il y une transcription cyrillique et les Russes qui préfèrent ça comme ça. C'est là où ça devient complexe pour une famille aussi riche comme Dejavu. Ce qui a été fait récemment, c'est une décision qui a été prise, c'est d'avoir une sous-famille Dejavu qui s'appelle LGC, pour Latin Grec Cyrillique pour éviter d'avoir tous les styles ensemble.
H: C'est d'enlever le latin des autres blocs.
N: Puisqu'ils sont quand même assez proches. Il y a du travail qui a été fait au niveau des blocs Arabe et Hébreu.
P-L: il y avait des problèmes avec la baseline qui était pas la même.
N: Il y a des problèmes techniques et aussi des problèmes d'expression de styles. L'avantage vraiment de Dejavu c'est que ça pousse le reste de la « pile » logicielle autour des polices de caractères. Il y a certains mainteneurs comme ceux de Pango (<a href="http://www.pango.org">http://www.pango.org</a>) ou de Firefox (<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/products/firefox/">http://www.mozilla.com/products/firefox/</a>) qui se disent, « Woouah les typographes de Dejavu exposent encore nos bugs, ahh ».
P-L: Ca arrive assez assez fréquemment. Ha ha ha.
N: Ca prouve qu'il y a une activité assez formidable.
P-L: C'est vrai mais pour revenir aux locales (locl), j'avais beaucoup de difficultés à me mettre dans la peau d'un typographe designer en Grec, un typographe designer en Cyrillique, pour moi personnellement je ne le lis pas, c'est du Chinois, je sais pas du tout ce que c'est. Pour moi, c'est plus une icône qu'un caractère de texte.
N: C'est ça la difficulté en fait. Beaucoup de designers dans la SIL (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/TypeDesign">http://scripts.sil.org/TypeDesign</a>) doivent s'entourer de gens qui connaissent le script pour faire quelques chose de culturellement approprié.
P-L: Parce que si on n'est pas natif dans le script, c'est difficile de dire : est-ce que ça c'est une bonne légibilité dans le script ou est-ce que c'est vraiment merdique.
N: C'est sûr.
H: Est-ce que vous avez des collaborateurs justement Arabes, Chinois ou Japonais, des gens qui sont vraiment dans leur langue?
P-L: Des collaborateurs réguliers ou juste simplement des observateurs?
H: Les deux je dirais...
P-L: Probablement plus des observateurs.
N: Des gens qui rapportent des bugs sur la liste en disant «oh là! il faut pas que ça soit comme ça !»?
P-L: Mais des typographes japonais chinois, je pense pas.
N: Des gens qui envoient des patchs?
H: Des gens qui dessinent carrément des caractères et autres?
N: Sur le site de Dejavu c'est indiqué plus ou moins leur status, si leur travail a été repris via un merge ou s'il sont vraiment actifs. C'est aussi ce qu'on essaie d'encourager dans le cadre de la logique de l'Open Font licence (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a>) avec le FONTLOG (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ_web#00e3bd04">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ_web#00e3bd04</a>), cet espèce de changelog dédié à la typographie et au design de polices, c'est vraiment de décrire les modifications parce que la plupart des polices propriétaires qu'on a, il y a pas de descriptions, c'est une release finale et voilà.
P-L: Tandis que dans Dejavu c'est un travail constant, mais ça crée aussi des problèmes, si quelqu'un crée un texte avec la police, si tu changes la taille des caractères, si tu changes l'espace entre les lettres, ça va nécessairement tout changer. Donc est-ce qu'on fait un changement pour le mieux dans un certain caractère ou on le garde pour garder le support antérieur?
N: Ca c'est la décision du changement. Ce que je voulais dire, c'est le fait que les changements soient décris très précisément c'est une bonne chose, parce que souvent dans les fontes propriétaires, on ne sait pas ce qui se passe. Voilà, c'est la nouvelle version si ça marche vous êtes content mais si ça marche pas venez nous voir, et donc le changelog est vraiment précis: c'est à dire que telle ou telle personne a ajouté tel bloc ou a fait ce changement-là.
F: (I will ask my questions in English otherwise it takes too long, And you speak French). This way of working is quite different than the way than historically typographers have worked. There seems to be a history of say a lonely man working on their internal piece, and the way you describe the process of designing Dejavu is completely opposite. So, how do you think this is visible or legible in the typeface itself or in the practise of doing typeface design?
N: Il y a un fait fondamental, je pense, c'est la vitesse à laquelle les modifications sont faites. Mais je sais qu'en discutant avec Victor Gaultney (<a href="http://www.sil.org/~gaultney">http://www.sil.org/~gaultney</a>), il y a des expérimentations qui ont été faites, en tous cas dans les écoles de dessin de polices, de typographies parfois ils mettent comme ça des étudiants ensemble en disant « travaillez sur une police et ce soir vous nous montrerez ce que vous avez fait ensemble ». Mais le fait d'utiliser ça de manière distribuée via un gestionnaire de révision de contrôle, un canal IRC ou une mailing-list c'est quelque chose qui se fait que depuis quelques mois, quelques années, avec Dejavu et puis d'autres projets que la SIL lance (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts</a>). Mais c'est vrai qu'initialement c'est quand même un art personnel, élitiste.
P-L: Mais quand même, j'ai lu assez souvent que les typographes, il y a en plusieurs qui ne sont pas vraiment excellents pour faire l'espace entre les lettres, mais ils sont très bons pour faire le lettrage. Certains vont faire le lettrage, un autre va aider à faire l'espacement entre les lettres. Donc c'est souvent un travail collaboratif mais peut-être pas au même niveau que dans Dejavu.
N: Pas commun, c'est-à-dire, je fais mon truc, je te le passe et tu fais ton truc.
H: C'est pas une fragmentation des tâches?
P-L: C'est plus une ligne de montage que de la collaboration.
N: D'accord, je vois.
F: I'm also curious, because many type designers if you hear them speak about their typefaces, they link it - consciously or subconsciously to handwriting - to expression of let's say the style of a person, in a way, like the way something is drawn, which is a very individual expression, and then if you think about the way you work on a typeface, you completly blow that up in a way. Or not?
N: Je pense qu'on retrouverait les styles communs des différents contributeurs quand même, c'est un peu la transparence d'un système de gestion de sources, on peut rajouter quelque chose mais les autres peuvent aussi le modifier aussi donc il faut qu'il se crée une certaine culture des modifications. C'est pour ça qu'il y a ce concept de roadmap, je ne pense pas qu'on perde vraiment la partie style.
F: Non, ce n'est pas perdre, ce qui m'intéresse c'est le changement dans la pratique de faire une lettre, de faire une courbe ensemble.
P-L: Mais il y a quand même le style du caractère qui s'impose aussi quand tu fais ce que tu fais, tu peux pas dire moi je fais le caractère, un script d'une certaine façon, dans le fonds c'est un peu comme ce qu'on a vu dans le documentaire Helvetica (<a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/">http://www.helveticafilm.com/</a>) hier soir. Il y en avait un qui disait qu'il y avait une espèce de systèmisation du caractère, donc les courbes et toute les parties du lettrage vont avoir une connotation dans une autre lettre. Parce que sinon si tu ne fais pas ça comme ça évidemment, ça va avoir l'air dépareillé.
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N: Ca serait intéressant de voir un fichier README d'une police libre comme Gentium (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium">http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium</a>), pour voir quels sont les conseils qui sont donnés à ceux qui veulent envoyer des patchs, en terme de formats, en terme de style, en terme de recherche, etc. Le designer quand même reste maître, même si c'est toujours un projet ouvert, il reste maître de la légitimité d'un patch.
F: Maître?
H: Et vous avez des formations de typographie ou de graphisme?
N: Non, pas vraiment, mais ça m'intéresse.
P-L: Je suis designer graphique moi-même, mais j'ai pas eu de formation académique, mais c'est sûr que je lis beaucoup, probablement plus que la majorité des étudiants de design. Dans le fond, c'est sûr que j'aimerais avoir une éducation en tant que telle mais en travaillant on en apprend aussi.
N: C'est quand même beaucoup de choses à apprendre...
P-L: Mais c'est dur d'apprendre seul et de s'établir soi-même un plan d'apprentissage, d'avoir d'autres personnes qui apprennent avec toi, il faut que tu trouves tout toi-même.
P-L: Mais dans un plan communautaire c'est plus facile d'évoluer.
N: C'est pour ça qu'on a comme projet avec Dave Crossland (<a href="http://understandingdesign.co.uk/">http://understandingdesign.co.uk/</a>) et d'autres de rendre public les compétences par rapport à la typographie, ce qui était enseigné dans quelques écoles très très prestigieuses par une poignée de gurus, il faudrait que ça soit disponible plus largement.
H: Est-ce qu'il y a une entraide comme ça entre les designers sur les techniques de dessin, sur la manière de procéder? Graphique, je dirais, spécialement graphique?
P-L: C'est sûr qu'actuellement tout le monde à sa façon de faire, son procédé, si vous allez sur Typophile, les gens sont très ouvert pour aider les débutants qui commencent en design typographique, si vous avez des questions sur n'importe quoi, eux ils sont là pour vous aider. Il y a des professionnels qui travaillent chez Adobe, qui ont travaillé sur la spécification OpenType eux-mêmes et qui peuvent vous dire exactement ce dont vous avez besoin.
N: Il faut juste savoir poser sa question de la bonne façon.
H: En respectant leur hiérarchie?
N: Non, non un peu de diplomatie, c'est normal.
P-L: Le domaine typographique est encore beaucoup dans l'espèce de mentalité apprenti/maître, donc c'est souvent l'apprenti qui essaye de se mettre au niveau du maître.
F: For me, as I look at open source projects, and the different ways collaboration is organised, I find this again, this contrast with this stark hierarchy of master and...
P-L: Mais je crois pas que ça soit une hiérarchie explicite, mais plutôt une hiérarchie implicite, souvent celui qui contribue le plus c'est aussi celui lui qui connaît le plus donc c'est lui qui va aider le plus.
N: C'est la méritocratie quelque part, c'est aussi un plaisir pour celui qui connaît les choses de les partager. Mais c'est vrai qu'il y aura toujours ceux qui sont très bons, qui connaissent bien leur domaine et qui ont beaucoup d'expérience et ceux qui commencent juste. Mais il y a un échange. Il y a un plaisir d'échanger les compétences et les connaissances.
H: Et si tu es dans une tradition humaniste, d'effacement de prétention graphique pour un intérêt commun...
N: Pour moi personnellement il y a un but: qu'il y ait plus de systèmes d'écriture qui soient disponibles, que la qualité soit là, que les barrières qui empêchent certaines personnes d'accéder à l'écrit et à ce que l'écrit peut donner comme indépendance, comme autodétermination, etc, que ces barrières puissent s'effondrer. Il y a des recherches qui ont été faites en terme de lisibilité, par rapport à ceux qui apprennent à lire et à écrire par exemple. Plus la fonte est agréable à lire, plus les gens ont envie d'apprendre à lire. Notamment dans les contextes ou c'est des adultes qui apprennent à lire quand il y a des campagnes d'alphabétisation par exemple dans les pays en voie de développement. Il y a vraiment une recherche, si on fait ça avec telle fonte, les résultat seront vraiment médiocres mais si on fait ça avec une autre fonte, il y aura un intérêt, il y aura une passion, il y aura beaucoup plus de gens qui réussiront l'examen d'alphabétisation. Un des projets de la SIL c'est une police dédiée justement à l'alphabétisation, qui s'appelle « Andika » (<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium">http://scripts.sil.org/Andika</a>) c'est du Swahili et ça veut dire « écrire ». Il y a une vrai dissociation qui est faite entre certains caractères qui sont peut-être trop proches les uns des autres surtout quand on commence à lire et à écrire il faut qu'il y ait le moins d'ambiguïté possible. C'est un design original mais c'est vraiment une fonte avec une richesse suffisante pour que ça soit disponible dans des langues qui utilisent des scripts complexes, certaines langues africaines aussi où il y a ce type de glyphe. Donc les designers attendent des spécialistes en alphabétisation d'avoir des retours pour améliorer encore le tir. C'est aussi une fonte qui a des variantes, comme ce qui commence à être fait aussi je crois dans Dejavu pour avoir des variantes en fonction du contexte. Parce qu'il y a des gens qui préfèrent un certain type de « a » avec un certain style, etc.
P-L: Donc c'est des « alterns »
N: Double story a, single-story a. Les ligatures, la manière dont les chiffres sont affichés là. Vraiment dans un but d'alphabétisation initiale mais comme c'est un design original il y a beaucoup de gens qui commencent à l'utiliser aussi pour du design comme ça.
H: Comme fonte de travail?
N: Oui, c'est une Sans Serif (<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif</a>) qui est un peu le pendant de Gentium, parce c'est fait par les mêmes designers. Il y a eu moins d'efforts par rapport aux inscructions pour l'écran. C'est plus directement pour l'impression mais bon si les linguistes peuvent trouver ça agréable aussi quand ils travaillent sur l'écran, c'est mieux. Mais ça prend plus d'énergie pour les instructions etc. Et puisque que c'est libre les gens peuvent y contributer s'il en ont besoin.
Je sais que certains leader de Déjavu réfléchissent aussi à la légitimité de passer à l'Open Font licence, mais ça ne s'est pas encore fait parce que en amont, Vera est encore sous ce copyright-là. Mais en fait on est en train de négocier, en tous cas il y a une réflexion qui se fait avec Bitstream et GNOME, pour qu'un nouvelle version de Vera sur laquelle ils ont travaillé sorte sour license OFL. Ensuite, comme Dejavu est un dérivé, les développeurs, les designers se rassembleront et voteront pour voir s'ils passent à l'OFL ou pas, parce que actuellement en terme de license il y a Vera et les dérivés de Vera sont licence Vera plus domaine public ou plus quelque chose d'autre. C'est pas vraiment défini quel est le statut des dérivés. Il y a vraiment une richesse sur laquelle on peut bâtir, mais on ne sait pas trop selon quelles règles. c'est un peu le flou. Donc l'idée de l'OFL c'est de clarifier la manière dont les dérivés fonctionnent. Le designer original de Vera s'appelle Jim Lyles (<a href="http://www.myfonts.com/person/lyles/jim/">http://www.myfonts.com/person/lyles/jim/</a>), on est en contact avec lui.
F: C'est donc c'est lui qui va décider?
N: Oui lui et sa boîte et ses directeurs. D'ailleurs dans la documentation qui est livrée avec chaque nouvelle release, chaque nouvelle sortie de Dejavu, on voit dans les statistiques de progression ce qui est original, ce qui a été fait par le designer de Bitstream et ce que les nouveaux designers ont ajouté. Donc on voit la progression.
H: Donc il y a un archivage à chaque fois?
N: Oui c'est vraiment décrit. Il y a peu de projets sont aussi décrits.
[...]
Là voilà le changelog, donc chronologiquement inversé. On voit, la première version qui a été donnée dans le cadre du travail à Reading, à l'Université de Reading, voilà quelques bugs qui sont réglés. C'est aussi la logique de dire « voilà les problèmes qui ont été réglés. Il existe des problèmes. » C'est pas comme beaucoup de logiciels propriétaires qui disent « il y a jamais eu de problèmes. Mais si vous achetez la version suivante il y aura plein de nouvelles fonctionnalités » et on vous dit pas tout ce qui a été corrigé. Et là, la source aussi qui est mise avec, ce qui est aussi important pour les polices libres. La définition d'une source pour une police c'est quelque chose d'assez vaste, ça peut être la base de donnée des glyphes, ça peut être les comportements contextuels, OpenType ou Graphite (<a href="http://graphite.sil.org">http://graphite.sil.org</a>), ça peut être les instructions, ça peut être un guide pour le design, c'est-à-dire voilà les choix qui ont été faits, ça peut être de la documentation des scripts pour la construction, pour les statistiques, etc. Voilà aussi « Fix some duplicates» etc. Voilà: « Anyone can create their own modified version ».
F: « using a different name »...
N: L'idée c'est de permettre le branchage: il y a le tronc commun, plein plein de branches peuvent pousser à partir de ce tronc-là, mais il ne faut pas que les branches se prennent pour le tronc. C'est possible qu'une branche puisse avoir plus de fonctionnalité que le tronc mais il ne faut pas que les choses se mélangent. Que les gens qui choisissent des fontes puissent bien identifier d'où ça vient. D'où l'intérêt aussi du changelog, c'est tout dans la description et dans la transparence.
F: Mais il y a déjà des branches?
N: Oui oui, il y a déjà plusieurs branches. Il y a des gens qui ont travaillé sur une version Hébreu, il y a des gens qui ont travaillé sur des langues du Népal je crois, des langues Indiennes aussi, en partant du design de Gentium.
F: So the original design remains but then other language sets are developped. Did you see say design versions, for example people that have adjusted all glyphs or decided to make it like Harrison did a Courrier or Sans-serif, a kind of style changes? C'est possible de faire ça?
N: Oui, c'est tout-à-fait possible, ça serait un changement plus complet, c'est-à-dire qu'on pourrait prendre quelque chose d'existant et repartir plus ou moins de zéro.
P-L: Tant qu'à y être, c'est aussi bien de redémarrer à partir de zéro mais avec une autre idée de ce qu'on peut faire avec cette police.
N: Si le style est vraiment différent c'est plus vraiment un dérivé. L'idée c'est aussi de pouvoir aussi peut-être réutiliser les scripts de statistiques et de construction, les choses qui font partie de cette source de fonte qui peuvent aussi être re-utilisées. Voilà les conseils qui sont donnés aux contributeurs, c'est dit que les branches peuvent exister et que le mainteneur original va continuer à travailler sur le tronc, « develop the canonical version », c'est un peu ça. « We warmly welcome contributions » voilà les conseils qui sont donnés, en terme de format, pour envoyer un patch, en terme de source, voilà qu'est-ce qui est recommandé. Pour les attributions aussi, ça c'est quelque chose qui va plus dans le coeur du mécanisme de license, on a le droit d'ajouter son copyright aux modifications que l'on fait. On hérite le copyright du tronc initial, on peut rajouter le bout qui couvre sa contribution personnelle, bien sûr on n'enlève pas le copyright ancien, mais si on veut reverser quelque chose au tronc ça se fait selon les règles de celui qui maintient le tronc. Dans le cas de Gentium, par exemple, le choix a été fait de remettre le copyright au nom de l'ONG en question. Bon les gens décident au coup par coup. Et donc voilà quand c'est dit là, c'est comme le fichier plans du projet Dejavu, quels sont les trucs sur lesquels on a déjà plus ou moins travaillé, si c'est déjà prêt c'est pas vraiment utile que vous y consacriez du temps puisque c'est déjà fait on va peut-être utiliser ce qu'on a déjà. Mais voilà ce sur quoi on n'a pas encore travaillé, voilà si ça vous intéresse, travaillez dessus, posez-nous vos questions, et on l'intégrera peut-être.
Ici on parle du travail sur le Cyrillique par exemple, un petit avertissement aussi: le format peut changer, le mécanisme de construction peut aussi changer. Il y a aussi la partie Acknowlegements, une espèce de liste qui peut grandir et qui est structurée. Savoir qui a fait quoi, qui a contribué et où et d'avoir les détails. C'est dans la même logique de ce qu'on disait hier dans la présentation pour les métadonnées, c'est utile pour un designer d'exposer ses données, de laisser un peu sa trace quoi. Ce qu'on veut faire c'est que pour les utilisateurs finaux on puisse aller facilement sur le site du designer, sur le site de son organisation peut-être, et de voir ce qu'il a fait dans ce cadre-là. Le fait d'apparaître c'est une bonne chose pour le designer, dans la logique de ne pas garder les choses secrètes et sous scellé, le fait de faire les choses en transparence c'est aussi bénéfique, c'est de la bonne pub, la construction d'une bonne réputation.
<em>Transcrit par Nicolas Spalinger avec quelques corrections mineures pour clarifier les phrases et ajout des URLs pour un meilleur contexte et une meilleure compréhension du mouvement des fontes libres.
Merci à Harrisson et Femke pour leur intérêt pour la typographie libre et collaborative et leur travail de couverture du Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 à Montréal.
Cette transcription est © 2007 Nicolas Spalinger et placée sous licence CC-BY-SA.</em>
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<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:38:43+00:00">We hope you are as much inspired by these texts as we are.</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:38:43+00:00">You should read this!</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:41:49+00:00">We think these texts are essential.</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:41:49+00:00">These texts need to be seen in context of their time.</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:38:43+00:00">Would this be of any use?</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:38:43+00:00">Will you read this please?</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:38:43+00:00">Please do not take their advice literally!</del>
<del datetime="2007-06-04T08:41:49+00:00">We hope you find time to have a look at this.</del>
...
<strong>→</strong> Jan Tschichold, <a href="http://learning.north.londonmet.ac.uk/epoc/tschichd.htm">The Form of the Book, Essays on the Morality of Good Design</a>, Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1991
<strong>→</strong> <a href="http://www.filterfine.com/resources/jmb/biblio.htm">Josef Muller-Brockmann</a>, Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Niederteufen 1981]]></content:encoded>
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Today's challenge brought to you by indexer and typesetter <a href="http://wexfordpress.com/">John Culleton</a>.
<em>These four covers were done using three different tools:
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Who can match covers 1 through 4 with the correct tool?</em>
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<title>Tea for Tiles</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 "<a href="http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html">clone tile tool</a>".
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As works are also a good way to share knowledge, it is the good context to show a specificity of the clone tile tool that <a href="http://www.cgemy.com/">Cédric Gemy</a> showed me in Montreal, after LGM Inkscape presentation.
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Clone tile tool allows to duplicate an element on a specific area of the page, using parameters such as shift, symetry, scale, rotation, blur, transparency... and <a href="http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles-Trace.html">trace</a>
Example: vecto-pixelization (very handy for vinyl cuttings)
1 Open an image (such as jpg) in inkscape. (image can also be another element drew in inkscape, such as type!)
2 Draw what will be the "pixel" (here, a star).
3 Place this on the upper left corner of the image.
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3 In the clone tile tool box, go to tab "trace"
4 Select the caracteristic you want to be transcribed (here it is the lightness of the jpg)
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5 Select your motif and "create"
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This feature needs a bit of test and practice, but it's worth playing with. Ressources are almost infinite.
There are plenty of random settings you can set (as I did for Manuka)...
And... fasten your seat belt, here are few bonus <a href="http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles-Tricks.html">tricks</a>!]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Pierre Huyghebaert]]></wp:comment_author>
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<title>Canadian Printing Breakfast - Impressions canadiennes au petit-déjeuner </title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Samedi 16 Juin</h3>
<code>Nepomuk Bar - City Mine(d) - <a href="http://www.viamichelin.be/viamichelin/fra/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?strCountry=311&strAddress=Sint-Jan+Nepomucenusstraat%2C+17&strCP=1000&strLocation=Bruxelles&x=200&y=120">Rue Saint-Jean Nepomucen, 17, Bruxel</a></code>
<small>Click <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=257#more-257"><strong>here</strong></a> for English</small>
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Open Source Publishing est fier de vous inviter à son petit-déjeuner canadien, où vous seront servies leurs dernières aventures dans le monde des Logiciels Libres. Au menu: mise en page animée d’un conte de fée, programmeur chercheur de singes à Madagascar, et A qui change tout. Ne ratez pas ce mélange détonant de typographie, de scripts en python et de sirop d’érable!
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<code>Language: FR / EN
Le service commencera à 10:00, la présentation à 11:00. Gratuit, avec le petit déjeuner. Réservations: femke at constantvzw.com</code>
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<h3>Saturday June 16</h3>
<code>Nepomuk Bar - City Mine(d) - <a href="http://www.viamichelin.be/viamichelin/fra/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?strCountry=311&strAddress=Sint-Jan+Nepomucenusstraat%2C+17&strCP=1000&strLocation=Bruxelles&x=200&y=120">Sint-Jan Nepomucenusstraat 17, Brussels</a></code>
<img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/siropderable.JPG' alt='siropderable.JPG' class="float" />The Open Source Publishing team would like to serve you their latest adventures in free software for breakfast. With amongst other things a lay-out application animating a fairy tale, a software developer looking for monkeys in Madagascar and a letter A that changed everything. Don't miss the miraculous mixture of pancakes, typography and python scripting!
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Doors open for breakfast at 10:00 / presentations start 11:00
Entrance free, including breakfast - please reserve at: femke at constantvzw.com</code>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Pancakes & Python</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Impressions from <strong>Canadian Printing Breakfast</strong> in Nepomuk Bar, Brussels. More images in <a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=15696">Constants Image Repository</a>.
<small>Special thanks: An, Wendy & Pierre (serving), Ivan (Python), Nurse (records), Peter (pictures), Nicolas (printing), Veronique (City Min(e)d).</small>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>DIN - Das Ist Norm - III</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Schablonenschrift A - Din1451 - August 1949
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<title>How to turn a frog into a prince</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/StoryC.pdf"><img class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/frogprince_th.jpg" alt="frogprince_th.jpg" /></a> <strong>Frog and Prince</strong> is a fairytale featuring free software, python scripting and an open font. The story was premièred at <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/">LGM 2007</a> (Montréal, Canada), and formed the centerpiece of the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=257">Canadian Printing Breakfast</a> (Brussels, June 2007). Below is everything you need to make the recipe, but you can also browse through sample documents for each of the steps in the transformation process. Ingredients are there to be opened up, re-distributed, changed and improved upon. Please report back when you use or abuse.
[<a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/StoryC.pdf">Preview of the final result</a>]
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[<a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince.zip">download all sample documents as a .zip file</a>]
<strong>Tools you will need</strong>:
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<li>Internet connection</li>
<li>Gimp image editor</li>
<li>Inkscape vector editor</li>
<li>Terminal (command line) application</li>
<li>Scribus lay-out application</li>
<li>Python script <small>(scripted by <a href="http://textzi.net/">Ivan Monroy-Lopez</a>)</small></li>
<li>Pdf toolset: psnbook, psnup, ps2pdf, pdftops</li>
<li>Printer</li>
<li>Stapler</li>
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<strong>1. Prepare ingredients</strong>
Find the Grimm story '<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20437">The Princess and the frog</a>', available through the Gutenberg project. Identify two sections: one telling the story of the frog, and the other starting at the moment the frog turns into a prince. Save the first section as <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Frog.txt">Frog.txt</a>, the second as <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Prince.txt">Prince.txt</a>.
Look for an image of a prince, and convert it to Scalable Vector Format (svg) using Gimp, Inkscape and Potrace. Do the same for an image of a frog.
<strong>2. Install font</strong>
In your home directory, create a folder called '.fonts'. The dot is important (Make sure you have <em>view invisible files</em> selected in file browser)! Copy <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/CharterOSP-Roman.ttf">CharterOSP-Roman.ttf</a> into this folder. From the command line, run:
<code>$ fc-cache</code>
This is to update the fontconfig settings. The CharterOSP-Roman should now be available to all applications.
<strong>3. Prepare document</strong>
Open Scribus (version 1.3.3.9 or lower) and create a new document, size A5.
Import <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Frog.svg">Frog.svg</a> and <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Prince.svg">Prince.svg</a> (File > Import > Import SVG) into Scribus and place them on top of each other on page 1. Convert both objects to a textframe (contextual menu: <em>Convert to > Text frame</em>).
Change name of the objects into respectively 'Frog' and 'Prince' (<em>View > Properties</em> and change name in X,Y,Z tab.)
Define the following 4 colors (<em>Edit > Colors > New</em>) and make sure you use the exact same names:
FrogInitialFill => the color of the fill of Frog on page 1
FrogFinalFill => the color of the fill of Frog on last page
PrinceInitialFill => the color of the fill of Prince on page 1
PrinceFinalFill => the color of the fill of Prince on last page
Before you can run the script, the 1-page .sla file (<a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/FrogPrince.sla">FrogPrince.sla</a>) must be saved in the same directory as the Prince.txt and Frog.txt files. The Python script (<a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Story.py">Story.py</a>) should be saved in the same directory.
<strong>4. Run script</strong>
To run the script: <em>script > execute</em> script and select <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Story.py">Story.py</a>
Now a series of dialogue boxes will pop up.
The one about scale goes like this:
0.1 == one tenth of the original size
0.25 == one quarter of the original size
0.5 == one half of the original size
Keep in mind that in the end, the script only shrinks objects. the shrunk frog will appear on the last page, while the shrunk prince will appear on the first page.
When running, the script creates the following sequence of colors:
FrogFill2 ... FrogFilln, where n = (numberOfPages - 1)
PrinceFill2 ... PrinceFilln, where n = (numberOfPages -1)
so it's best not to have colors with those names in the sla file, to avoid conflicts.
<strong>5. Style text</strong>
In the newly created document <a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Story.sla">Story.sla</a>, make two new styles, one for Prince and another for Frog. Choose OSP Charter, 6 points for FrogStyle and 11 points for PrinceStyle in order to fill out the text over as many text boxes as possible.
Apply styles to Frog and Prince.
Export the document as pdf (<a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Story.pdf">Story.pdf</a>); make sure to embed all fonts. (<em>File > Export as PDF</em>. In Font tab, select 'embed all fonts')
<strong>6. Prepare for printing</strong>
For more detailed instructions, see <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=90">How to print a booklet in 19 easy steps</a>.
Use the command line, convert the .pdf document to a postscript document:
<code>$ pdftops -paper match '/home/user/Desktop/Story.pdf' '/home/user/Desktop/Story.ps' </code>
Then arrange the order of pages for imposition:
<code>$ psbook -s16 '/home/user/Story.ps' '/home/user/Desktop/StoryB.ps' </code>
If all goes well, you will see the following:
<code>[16] [1] [2] [15] [14] [3] [4] [13] [12] [5] [6] [11] [10] [7] [8] [9]
Wrote 16 pages, 5937633 bytes </code>
Make spreads, placing 2 A5's on an A4:
<code>$ psnup -2 -PA5 '/home/user/Desktop/StoryB.ps' '/home/user/Desktop/StoryC.ps' </code>
<code>[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Wrote 8 pages, 5944599 bytes </code>
Convert the document back to pdf:
<code>$ ps2pdf '/home/user/Desktop/StoryC.ps' '/home/user/Desktop/StoryC.pdf' </code>
<strong>8. Print</strong>
[this step has bugs in Ubuntu 7.04; other versions/systems should be al right.]
You can use the commandline to print first the even pages (myprinter is the name of your printer, n is the amount of copies)
<code>$ lpr -P myprinter -o page-set=even -#1 infile.pdf </code>
Once the even pages are printed, you need to re-arrange the order of the pages so that the first page comes last.
Put the pages upside down back in the printer
Now print the odd pages
<code>$ lpr -P myprinter -o page-set=odd -#1 infile.pdf </code>
Fold the pages from A4 to A5
Fold the stack back open and place it on the piece of cardboard with the cover facing you.
Click open your stapler so you can staple the stack in the middle
Gently remove the stack (which is now stuck to the cardboard) and fold the staples back in.
Sample documents:
<ul>
<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/Story.ps">Story.ps</a></li>
<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/StoryB.ps">StoryB.ps</a></li>
<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/StoryC.ps">StoryC.ps</a></li>
<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/FrogPrince/StoryC.pdf">StoryC.pdf</a></li>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Wonderful Inkscape unfortunately does not support black overprinting. You can define colors in CMYK but it will not allow values such as 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K (Inkscape for some reason automatically converts these back to 0% C + 0% M + 0% Y + 100% K).
<a title="bad_circles.jpg" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/bad_circles.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/bad_circles.thumbnail.jpg" alt="bad_circles.jpg" /></a> <a title="good_circles.jpg" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/good_circles.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/good_circles.thumbnail.jpg" alt="good_circles.jpg" /></a>
<a title="bad_tiger.jpg" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/bad_tiger.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/bad_tiger.thumbnail.jpg" alt="bad_tiger.jpg" /></a> <a title="good_tiger.jpg" href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/good_tiger.jpg"><img src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/good_tiger.thumbnail.jpg" alt="good_tiger.jpg" /></a>
<small>Left: cyan plate after importing .svg in Scribus.
Right: cyan plate after adjusting colors.</small>
But with the help of excellent Scribus, this is easy to fix. Simply import the .svg into Scribus, and go to edit > colors. All colors in imported Inkscape illustrations, will be RGB; most likely black has ended up as 'FromSVG#000000', or 'Grey0'. Change this color from RGB to CMYK and change values to 40% C + 40% M + 40% Y + 100% K. Check in print preview and ... voilà!]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Hello!
I tested (not on a proper proof, so no guarantees) the way Scribus converts RGB to CMYK, and it seems to make no difference whether you manually select CMYK-per-color, or ask Scribus to convert the whole document. But... there is still an issue of course with colors & shades that have lots of black in them, so you are right: color-converting-madness is far from over.
Soon we will do a proper report on SK1, a tool specifically developed to help with these kinds of problems. http://sk1.sourceforge.net/]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[The trick is nice and easy for the black overprinting thing, but it gets you to convert to CMYK (again) all the remaining RGB colors in the graphic, not just the black one. So it could end up in a "color re-conversion madness" in case the design is complicated with many objects and different colors... Or did I get it wrong?
By the way. I love this blog.]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Inkscape doesn't support CMYK because SVG doesn't, or at least the base of SVG colours are sRGB unless using specific colour profiles (which can't be set yet in inkscape...)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[all the remaining RGB colors in the graphic, not just the black one. So it could end up in a “color re-conversion madness” in case the design is complicated with many objects and different colors… Or did I get it wrong?]]></wp:comment_content>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<strong>Interview with George Williams, Fontforge developer</strong>
<blockquote>(...) I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind -- and in some sense I find the user interface beautiful. I'm not sure that anyone else in the world does, because it's what I want, but I think it's beautiful. <small>(George Williams, May 2007)</small></blockquote>
For those who prefer reading over listening, enjoy this text version of the audio interview with George Williams (developer of <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/">FontForge</a>) we <a href="?p=221">published earlier</a>.
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<P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> <A href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/">We</A>'re doing these interviews, as we're working as designers on OpenSource <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> OK<P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> With OpenSource tools, as typographers, but often when we speak to developers they say "well, tell me what you want," or they see our interest in what they are doing as a kind of feature request or bug report <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> (laughs) Yes <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Of course it's clear that that's the way it often works, but for us it's also interesting to think about these tools as really tools, as ways of shaping work, to try and understand how they are made or who is making them. It can help us make other things. So this is actually what we want to talk about. To try and understand a bit about how you've been working on FontForge. Because that's the project you're working on. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> OK <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> And how that connects to other ideas of tools or tools' shape that you make. These kind of things. So maybe first it's good to talk about what it is that you make. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> OK. Well... <A href="http://fontforge.sf.net/">FontForge</A> is a font editor. <P>I started playing with fonts when I bought my first Macintosh, back in the early 80s <I>(actually it was the mid-80s) </I>and my father studied textual bibliography and looked at the ways the printing technology of the Renaissance affected the publication of Shakespeare's works. And what that meant about the errors in the compositions we see in the copies we have left from the Renaissance. So my father was very interested in Renaissance printing (and has written books on this subject) and somehow that meant that I was interested in fonts. <P>I'm not quite sure how that connection happened, but it did. So I was interested in fonts. And there was this program that came out in the 80s called Fontographer which allowed you to create PostScript and later TrueType fonts. And I loved it. And I made lots of calligraphic fonts with it. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> You were... like 20? <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I was 20~30. Lets see, I was born in 1959, so in the 80s I was in my 20s mostly. And then Fontographer was bought up by MacroMedia who had no interest in it. They wanted FreeHand which was done by the same company. So they dropped Fon... well they continued to sell Fontographer but they didn't update it. And then OpenType came out and Unicode came out and it (<I>Fontographer)</I> didn't do this right and it didn't do that right... And I started making my own fonts, and I used Fontographer to provide the basis, and I started writing scripts that would add accents to latin letters and so on. And figured out the Type1 format so that I could decompose it -- decompose the Fontographer output so that I could add my own things to it. And then Fontographer didn't do Type0 PostScript fonts, so I figured that out. <P>And about this time, the little company I was working for, a tiny little startup -- we wrote a web html editor -- where you could sit at your desk and edit pages on the web -- it was before FrontPage, but similar to FrontPage. And we were bought by AOL and then we were destroyed by AOL, but we had stock options from AOL and they went through the roof. So... in the late 90s I quit. <P>And I didn't have to work. <P>And I went off to <A HREF="http://info.bio.sunysb.edu/rano.biodiv/index.html">Madagascar</A> for a while to see if I wanted to be a primatologist. And... I didn't. There were too many leaches in the rainforest. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> So I came back, and I wrote a font editor instead. <P>And I put it up on the web and in 'late 99, and within a month someone gave me a bug report and was using it. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) So it took a month <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Well, you know, there was no advertisement, it was just there, and someone found it and that was <I>neat</I>!<P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> And that was called PfaEdit (because when it began it only did PostScript) and I... it just grew. And then -- I don't know -- three, four, five years ago someone pointed out that PfaEdit wasn't really appropriate any more, so I asked various users what would be a good name and a French guy said "How 'bout FontForge?" So. It became FontForge then. -- That's a much better name than PfaEdit. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Used it ever since. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> But your background... you talked about your father studying... <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I grew up in a household where Shakespeare was quoted at me every day, and he was an English teacher, still is an English teacher, well, obviously retired but he still occasionally teaches, and has been working for about 30 years on one of those versions of Shakespeare where you have two lines of Shakespeare text at the top and the rest of the page is footnotes. <P>And I went completely differently and became a mathematician and computer scientist and worked in those areas for almost 20 years and then went off and tried to do my own things. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> So how did you become a mathematician? <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> (pause) I just liked it.<P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) "just liked it" <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I was good at it. I got pushed ahead in high school. It just never occurred to me that I'd do anything else -- until I met a computer. And then I still did maths because I didn't think computers were -- appropriate -- or -- I was a snob. How about that. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> But I spent all my time working on computers as I went through university. And then got my first job at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and shortly thereafter the shuttle blew up and we had some (JPL is part of NASA) -- some of our experiments -- my little group -- flew on the shuttle and some of them flew on an airplane which went over the US took special radar pictures of the US. We also took special radar pictures of the world from the shuttle (<I>SIR-A, SIR-B, SIR-C</I>). And then our airplane burned up. And JPL was not a very happy place to work after that.<P>So then I went to a little company with some college friends of mine, that they'd started, created compilers and debuggers -- do you know what those are? <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Mm-hmm. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> And I worked a long time on that, and then the internet came out and found another little company with some friends -- and worked on HTML. <P> <HR> <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> So when, before we moved, I was curious about, I wanted you to talk about a Shakespearian influence on your interest in fonts. But on the other hand you talk about working in a company where you did HTML editors at the time you actually started, I think. So do you think that is somehow present... the web is somehow present in your -- in how FontForge works? or how fonts work or how you think about fonts?<P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I don't think the web had much to do with my -- well, that's not true. OK, when I was working on the HTML editor, at the time, mid-90s, there weren't any Unicode fonts, and so part of the reason I was writing all these scripts to add accents and get Type0 support in PostScript (which is what you need for a Unicode font) was because I needed a Unicode font for our HTML product. <P>To that extent -- yes-s-s-s. <P>It had an effect. Aside from that, not really. <P>The web has certainly allowed me to distribute it. Without the web I doubt anyone would know -- I wouldn't have any idea how to "market" it. If that's the right word for something that doesn't get paid for. And certainly the web has provided a convenient infrastructure to do the documentation in. <P>But -- as for font design itself -- that (the web) has certainly not affected me. <P>Maybe with this creative commons talk that Jon Phillips was giving, there may be, at some point, a button that you can press to upload your fonts to the <A href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font Library</A> -- but I haven't gotten there yet, so I don't want to promise that.<P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) But no, indeed there was-- hearing you speak about cchost, that's the-- <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Mm-hmm. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> software we are talking about? <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> That's what the Open Font Library uses, yes. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Yeah. And a connection to FontForge could change the way, not only how you distribute fonts, but also how you design fonts. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> It -- it might. I don't know ... I don't have a view of the future. <P>I guess to some extent, obviously font design has been affected by requiring it (<I>the font</I>) to be displayed on a small screen with a low resolution display. And there are all kinds of hacks in modern fonts formats for dealing with low resolution stuff. PostScript calls them hints and TrueType calls them instructions. They are different approaches to the same thing. But that, that certainly has affected font design in the last -- well since PostScript came out. <P>The web itself? I don't think that has yet been a significant influence on font design, but then -- I'm no longer a designer. I discovered I was much better at designing font editors than at designing fonts. <P>So I've given up on that aspect of things. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Mm-K, because I'm curious about your making a division about being a designer, or being a font-editor-maker, because for me that same definition of maker, these two things might be very related.<P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Well they are. And I only got in to doing it because the tools that were available to me were not adequate. But I have found since -- that I'm not adequate at doing the design, there are many people who are better at designing -- designing fonts, than I am. And I like to design fonts, but I have made some very ugly ones at times. <P>And so I think I will -- I'll do that occasionally, but that's not where I'm going to make a mark. <P>Mostly now -- <P>I just don't have the -- <P>The font editor itself takes up so much of time that I don't have the energy, the enthusiasm, or anything like that to devote to another major creative project. And designing a font is a major creative project. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Well, can we talk about the major creative project of designing a font editor? I mean, because I'm curious how -- how that is a creative project for you -- how you look at that. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I look at it as a puzzle. And someone comes up to me with a problem, and I try and figure out how to solve it. And sometimes I don't want to figure out how to solve it. But I feel I should anyway. And sometimes I don't want to figure out how to solve it and I don't. <P>That's one of the glories of being one's own boss, you don't have to do everything that you are asked. <P>But -- to me -- it's just a problem. And it's a fascinating problem. But why is it fascinating? -- That's just me. No one else, probably, finds it fascinating. Or -- the guys who design FontLab probably also find it fascinating, there are two or three other font design programs in the world. And they would also find it fascinating. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Can you give an example of something you would find fascinating? <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Well. Dave Crossland who was sitting behind me at the end was talking to me today -- he sat down -- we started talking after lunch but on the way up the stairs -- at first he was complaining that FontForge isn't written with a standard widget set. So it looks different from everything else. And yes, it does. And I don't care. Because this isn't something which interests me. <P>On the other hand he was saying that what he also wanted was a paragraph level display of the font. So that as he made changes in the font he could see a ripple effect in the paragraph.<P>Now I have a thing which does a word level display, but it doesn't do multi-lines. (or it does multi-lines if you are doing Japanese (<I>vertical writing mode</I>) but it doesn't do multi-columns then. So it's either one vertical row or one horizontal row of glyphs. <P>And I do also have a paragraph level display, but it is static. You bring it up and it takes the current snapshot of the font and it generates a real truetype font and pass it off to the X windows rasterizer -- passes it off to the standard linux toolchain (<I>freetype</I>) as that static font and asks that toolchain to display text. <P>So what he's saying is "OK, do that, but update the font that you pass off every now and then." And "Yeah, that'd be interesting to do. That's an interesting project to work on." Much more interesting than changing my widget set which is just a lot of work and tedious. Because there is nothing to think about. It's just "OK, I've got to use this widget instead of my widget." My widget does exactly what I want -- because I designed it that way -- how do I make this thing, which I didn't design, which I don't know anything about, do exactly what I want? <P>And -- that's dull. <P>For me. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Yeah, well.<P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Dave, on the other hand, is very hopeful that he'll find some poor fool who'll take that on as a wonderful opportunity. And if he does, that would be great, because not having a standard widget set is one of the biggest complaints people have. Because FontForge doesn't look like anything else. And people say "Well the grey background --" It used to have a grey background, now it has a white background "is very scary." <P>I thought it was normal to have a grey background, but uh... that's why we now have a white background. A white background may be equally scary, but no one has complained about it yet. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Try red. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I tried light blue and cream. One of them I was told gave people migraines -- I don't remember specifically what the comment was about the light blue, but <P><SMALL><B>(someone from InkScape):</B></SMALL> Make it configurable.<P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Oh, it is configurable, but no one configures it. <P><SMALL><B>(InkScaper):</B></SMALL> Yeah, I know. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> So... <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> So, you talked about spending a lot of time on this project, how does that work, you get up in the morning and start working on FontForge? or... <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Well, I do many things. Some mornings, yes, I get up in the morning and I start working on FontForge and I cook breakfast in the background and eat breakfast and work on FontForge. Some mornings I get up at 4 in the morning and go out <A href="http://sbrunning.org/george/">running</A> for a couple of hours and come back home and sort of collapse and eat a little bit and go off to yoga class and do a pilates class and do another yoga class and then go to my pottery class, and go to the farmers' market and come home and I haven't worked on FontForge at all. <P>So it varies according to the day. <P>But yes I... <P>There was a period where I was spending 40, 50 hours a week working on FontForge, I don't spend that much time on it now, it's more like 20 hours, though the last month I got all excited about the release that I put out last Tuesday -- today is Sunday. And so I was working really hard -- probably got up to -- oh -- 30 hours some of that time. I was really excited about the change. All kinds of things were different -- I put in python scripting, which people had been asking for -- well, I'm glad I've done it, but it was actually kind of boring, that bit -- the stuff that came before was -- fascinating. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Like? <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I -- are you familiar with the OpenType spec? No. OK. The way you... the way you specify ligatures and kerning in OpenType can be looked at at several different levels. And the way OpenType wants you to look at it, I felt, was unnecessarily complicated. So I didn't look at it at that level. And then after about 5 years of looking at it that way I discovered that the reason I thought it was unnecessarily complicated was because I was only used to Latin or Cyrillic or Greek text, and for Latin, Cyrillic or Greek, it probably is unnecessarily complicated. But for Indic scripts it is not unnecessarily complicated, and you need all those things. So I ripped out all of the code for specifying strange glyph conversions. You know in Arabic a character looks different at the beginning of a word and so on? So that's also handled in this area. And I ripped all that stuff out and redid it in the way that OpenType wanted it to be done and not the somewhat simplified but not sufficiently powerful method that I'd been using up until then. <P>And that I found, quite fascinating. <P>And once I'd done that, it opened up all kinds of little things that I could change that made the font editor itself bettitor. Better. Bettitor? <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> (laughs) That's almost Dutch. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> And so after I'd done that the display I talked about which could show a word -- I realized that I should redo that to take advantage of what I had done. And so I redid that, and it's now, it's now much more usable. It now shows -- at least I hope it shows -- more of what people want to see when they are working with these transformations that apply to the font, there's now a list of the various transformations, that can be enabled at any time and then it goes through and does them -- whereas before it just sort of -- well it did kerning, and if you asked it to it would substitute this glyph so you could see what it would look like -- but it was all sort of -- half-baked. <P>It wasn't very elegant.<P>And -- it's much better now, and I'm quite proud of that. <P>It may crash -- but it's much better. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> So you bring up half-baked, and when we met we talked about bread baking. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Oh, yes. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> And the pleasure of handling a material when you know it well. Maybe make reliable bread -- meaning that it comes out always the same way, but by your connection to the material you somehow -- well -- it's a pleasure to do that. So, since you've said that, and we then went on talking about pottery -- how clay might be of the same -- give the same kind of pleasure. I've been trying to think -- how does FontForge have that? Does it have that and where would you find it or how is the... <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> I like to make things. I like to make things that -- in some strange definition are beautiful. I'm not sure how that applies to making bread, but my pots -- I think I make beautiful pots. And I really like the glazing I put onto them. <P>It's harder to say that a font editor is beautiful. But I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind -- and in some sense <I>I</I> find the user interface beautiful. I'm not sure that anyone else in the world does, because it's what I want, but I think it's beautiful. <P>And there's a satisfaction in making something -- in making something that's beautiful. <P>And there's a satisfaction too (as far as the bread goes) in making something I need. I eat my own bread -- that's all the bread I eat (except for those few days when I get lazy and don't get to make bread that day and have to put it off until the next day and have to eat something that day -- but that doesn't happen very often). <P>So it's just -- I like making beautiful things. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> OK, thank you.<P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Mm-hmm. <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> That was very nice, thank you very much. <P><SMALL><B>G:</B></SMALL> Thank you. I have pictures of my pots if you'd like to see them? <P><SMALL><B>OSP:</B></SMALL> Yes, I would very much like to see them. <P Align="Center"><IMG SRC="documents/bowlweb.gif" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="150">
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Over the last few months, the OSP and Mute team have established a new design and production workflow for <a href="http://www.metamute.org">Mute magazine</a>, using Open Source tools. Below are a few of the questions we are encountering during the last stages of this process.
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Storing images, should they always be kept in the same place, at present we've made a folder for each Scribus document and then I sit an images sub directory, this way I can move the whole set of files around without risking losing images?
<blockquote>Good idea; yes this procedure is necessary (just like old versions of QuarkXpress).</blockquote>
Fonts between OS WinXP/OSX/Linux are not being recognised in ODT or SLA. Linux if OK but WinXP and OSX (check version numbers of Scribus) have problems. Could this be a font TTF issue?
<blockquote>What do you mean 'between'? And what are the problems exactly? (hard to test / recognize the problems for us because we do not have a Windows machine available)</blockquote>
On the biographies, black boxes and the title boxes, how should we bring in the pointed angled graphics into the document?
<blockquote>Re-make your basic shape in Inkscape, save as SVG and import into Scribus (File -> Import -> Import SVG). SVG's can be altered in Scribus.
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How do we export text and second how to we make PDFs text machine readable?
<blockquote>We wished we had thought of this beforehand... <del>Scribus automatically outlines *all* .ttf fonts to outlines, i.e. renders them machine un-readable (Subscription pages etc. have already been converted to outlines btw. so there we don't have any choice).</del>*
For the next issue, we will need to choose our fonts based on this, but testing is needed because Type1 fonts with problems (a missing glyph for example) might end up as outlines as well.
Even if the font was *not* converted to outlines, the exported PDF's still need to undergo some treatment, but that in itself is easy to do with the help of our friends pdftops and ps2pdf.
(read <a href="http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2007-May/024023.html">this thread</a>)
Another option, is to extract text from the .sla; which seems a bit archaic ... although interesting with respect to web-to-print.
* Update: apparently the problem was in the fontfile itself. After using another version, the problem dissappeared.
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How do we output with and without Crop Marks?
<blockquote>Save as PDF > check: Clip to page margins (= without cropmarks)
Save as PDF > uncheck: Clip to page margins (= with cropmarks)
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How do we join PDF pages together for the book block?
<blockquote>Use pdftk (command line tool):
<code>$ pdftk inputA.pdf inputBpdf output combined.pdf</code>
EXAMPLE:
f<code>snelting@station:~/Desktop/articles$ pdftk '/home/fsnelting/Desktop/articles/0005.pdf' '/home/fsnelting/Desktop/articles/0004.pdf' '/home/fsnelting/Desktop/articles/0003.pdf' '/home/fsnelting/Desktop/articles/0002.pdf' '/home/fsnelting/Desktop/articles/0001.pdf' output combined.pdf
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More ideas/ways of using pdftk: <a href="http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/">http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/</a>, or see pdftk manual - you can take specific pages from certain documents, re-arrange order etc. etc.</blockquote>
How can we later replace specific pages?
<blockquote>Repeat the above recipe with the new pages instead (you simply re-create the whole package).
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How to crop an area from the cover and add it as a page to the book block PDF file?
<blockquote>Ehm... how would you do this otherwise? Our guess: Edit -> Document setup -> change to final cover size; make sure to check 'apply size setting to all pages'. Than re-position artwork, and export as pdf. Add to pdftk ingredients (see above) and merge with other pages. </blockquote>
How do we check and apply leading to the SLA files?
<blockquote>Leading can be applied through styles or in the Properties box (Windows -> Properties -> Texttab), but surprisingly not in the text editor. The properties box is a bit tricky to handle because you will never be sure whether the displayed leading applies to a single frame or to multiple frames, and when you re-apply a leading here, it will overrule the leading applied in styles. Best is to trust styles + check visually with view -> view baseline grid.</blockquote>
How do we update folios and page numbers?
<blockquote>On each article: Document setup -> Sections -> change start number.</blockquote>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Linux Foundation OpenPrinting work group, organises a get-together 24-27 September in Montreal.
<a href="http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal">http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitMontreal</a>
As stated on their site, the printing activities of the Linux Foundation revolve around a few focal points:
<ul>
<li>For printer manufacturers, we want to make it easier to produce drivers that work across distributions and to get those drivers in the hands of end users, to reduce problems that result from running outdated drivers.</li>
<li>For application developers, we want to provide better facilities than we do today to add printing to applications in a portable and consistent way.</li>
<li>For operating system vendors, we want to put together a shared repository of printer drivers, so the OS/distribution vendors can share the burden of maintaining the (largely common) driver database with each other.</li>
<li>A major theme of the Printing Summit will be ensuring we have the proper standards in place at both the application and driver level to accomplish the goal of making printing on Linux "just work". In addition, we will discuss related topics, such as developer tools, developer documentation, certification, and testing, that will be important to the goal of making the standard actionable.</li>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of our <a href="http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/staff/jjfcramer/">Rotterdam reporters</a> made us notice <a href="http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html">Inconsolata</a>, a monospaced font designed by Ghostscript maintainer <a href="http://levien.com/">Raph Levien</a>. Levien offers an OTF version, plus 'raw' fontforge files on his webpage.
<blockquote>First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's Avenir (the lowercase "a", in particular, pays homage to this wonderful design), but also looked to Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic family for guidance on some of my favorite glyphs, such as lowercase "g" and "S", and, most especially, the numerals. <small>(Ralph Levien)</small></blockquote>
Dutch sample text generated in Scribus:
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Scribus uses the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11024">Gutenberg text version of Multatuli's Max Havelaar</a>. The English default is Bram Stoker's Dracula. Of course you could select your own preferred source!]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author_email>snelting@geuzen.org</wp:comment_author_email>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Correct! Thanks]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Raph is Raph not Ralph, btw :-)]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>La Rentrée</title>
<link>http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/la-rentree</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<small>View from <a href="http://www.rencontresdelure.org/ete/prog.html">Les Rencontres de Lure</a> (Lurs, France)</small>
Welcome back! OSP is about to start a busy year, but before we begin... here a fresh take on the application of Open Source methodologies in design:
<blockquote>"An open source methodology could aid us in moving in this direction for it provides a contemporary justification
for a publicly owned intellectual commons sustained by collaborative effort. The challenge would be to design the appropriate technologies for interface with the network. But if we merely transfer the open source model into the discipline of design, without first connecting it to a physical sense of place, we may not take advantage of the opportunities being offered to us".</blockquote>
<em><a href="http://www.thinkcycle.org/tc-filesystem/?folder_id=37457">Crafting the Public Realm: Speculations on the Potential of Open Source Methodologies in Development by Design</a></em>, Prem Chandavarkar
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9283">Use Inkscape and XSLT to Create Cross-Platform Reports and Forms,</a> an article by <em>Chad Files</em> on the <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com">Linux Journal website</a> that details a workflow to produce dynamic forms and reports for both print and web using <em>Inkscape</em> and <em>Xslt</em>.
<img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/9283f2inline.png' alt='Inkscape used to draw a template for a claim form' />
Description of the problem and requirements:
<blockquote>Health-care claims are very intricate (Figure 1). Many boxes and boilerplate text have to be drawn. The conventional way to do this with a software application is to draw a series of lines using coordinates and lengths, and then lay the static and dynamic content on top of the newly drawn lines. [...]</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Our requirements were as follows:
* We must be able to print high-quality versions of the claims.
* Claims must be accessible from a Web browser.
* The solution has to be programming language-independent. We use Python, PHP, Perl and Java. The images need to be created using any of these languages.
* We must be able to convert the claim data and form into several different file formats, specifically PDF and PNG.
* The entire solution must be platform-independent.
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The solution:
<blockquote>
Basically, we would take an SVG image of the claim form and make it into an XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation), because the SVG format is a special XML format. Then, we would pull the claim data from our database and convert it into an XML string. Using any of our languages, we could then take the XSLT and the XML and create an SVG image of the claim. This solution met all of our requirements. It was language- and platform-independent. We could print the SVG images and embed them into Web pages. Furthermore, SVG images can be converted into different file formats easily. Another nice feature of this solution is the small file size of the SVG images. If we wanted to archive the images, they would take a fraction of the space the old solution did. Because SVG images are text, not compressed binary, the files can be compressed and save even more space.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9283">Read the article</a> for the details of the implementation and test the sample code.
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<title>Mute: now available in Free Software</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-vol-2-6-Living-in-a-Bubble-Credit-debt-and-crisis"><a href='http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-vol-2-6-Living-in-a-Bubble-Credit-debt-and-crisis' title='cover_mute.jpg'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/cover_mute.jpg' alt='cover_mute.jpg' class="float"/></a><strong>Mute Vol 2 #6 - Living in a Bubble: Credit, debt and crisis</strong> 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.
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Read low-graphic pdf's online or order your own copy to see it with your own eyes: <a href="http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-vol-2-6-Living-in-a-Bubble-Credit-debt-and-crisis">http://www.metamute.org/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Odessa 12" released!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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.
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0704 - DOXA- ODESSA
“DONNA”
THREE HIGHLY AMAZING TRACKS. A VOCAL TECHNO TRACK WITH ODESSAS BEAUTIFUL VOICE, AND TWO OTHER HOT AND SMASHING TECHNO PRODUCTIONS. THE EXTENDED SIDE IS REALLY WORTH LISTENING TO!
(quote from Kompakt website)
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/odessatechno">http://www.myspace.com/odessatechno</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Liberation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 substituted by liberation sans font.
<blockquote>"Using these fonts does not subject your documents to the GPL--it liberates them from any proprietary claim"</blockquote>
Well cutted and with a very nice overall ambiance, the sans cut is particularly interesting, and much much nicer than another substitute for helvetica: the Arial. It is clearly affiliated to the Akzident Grotesk, but looks more neutral in the use. The serif cut is very far from the Times, and got formal similarities with the Vera Serif. But it gives a good contemporary, simple and elegant aspect to long readable texts, as far we tested it.
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/300px-font_comparison_-_liberation_sans_to_arialsvg.png' title='300px-font_comparison_-_liberation_sans_to_arialsvg.png'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/300px-font_comparison_-_liberation_sans_to_arialsvg.png' alt='300px-font_comparison_-_liberation_sans_to_arialsvg.png' /></a>
<a href='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/450px-font_comparison_-_liberation_serif_to_times_new_romansvg.png' title='450px-font_comparison_-_liberation_serif_to_times_new_romansvg.png'><img src='http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/450px-font_comparison_-_liberation_serif_to_times_new_romansvg.png' alt='450px-font_comparison_-_liberation_serif_to_times_new_romansvg.png' /></a>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts">The wikipedia article</a>
<strong>rpm font files and true type font files: </strong>
<a href="https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/">https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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<wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Andy Fitzsimon]]></wp:comment_author>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[A metric compatible liberation comic would be a pretty funny addition.
Bonus points goes to the creator should they cover cyrillic haha]]></wp:comment_content>
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<wp:comment_content><![CDATA[And what about a Liberation Comic Sans?]]></wp:comment_content>
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<title>Multiplication of liberation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrisson]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[OSP is testing Liberation Mono in an invitation for an exhibition in Brussels:
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(Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus)]]></content:encoded>
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<title>November 3: OSP @ Integrated2007</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Femke]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[On Saturday November 3, OSP will lecture at <a href="http://www.integrated2007.com">Integrated2007</a> "<em>a new vital international design conference taking place in deSingel Antwerp</em>":
<blockquote>"OSP takes you on a trip into the wonderful universe of Free Software. We will meet alien devices and extraterrestrial tools, previously unknown to the world of graphic design. We like to imagine what would happen if we reinvented or remixed the softwares we work with. While conventional packages prevent such forms of use through extremely restrictive licenses, Open Source Software invites you to dive under the hood of your creative suite. Will we be confused by what we find, or open our eyes to new way