Planet Open Fonts

Exhibition Prix Fernand Baudin

2010-02-08T07:57:18+00:00

26 February – 10 March 2010 Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009, the prize of the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia. BIP Rue Royale, 2-4 1000 Brussels Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s + release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm For it’s second edition 2009-2010, [...]

Cutting Edge

2010-02-07T22:54:05+00:00

Libre Graphics Meeting 2010! Download flyers: cuttingedge.zip

6 Feb 2010

2010-02-06T17:15:09+00:00

fontforge support for WOFF

At the request of Chris Lilley from W3C's font activity (among other things), the amazing George Williams has now implemented WOFF support in fontforge. It's available now in CVS but in a release near you probably soon. Thanks Chris and George for your efforts in this area!

A good way to use the new web native format and to view/handle the corresponding metadata.

Duke

2010-02-05T06:10:11+00:00

blackletter

CMYKTool unveiled

2010-02-03T21:25:30+00:00

On January 23 Alastair M. Robinson silently released first public version of CMYKTool. That would go quite unnoticed if it wasn’t for someone liking to read all sorts of RSS feeds So the very next day linuxgraphics.ru community was already discussing the new tool, discovering bugs and requesting features. The thread was so [...]

3 Feb 2010

2010-02-03T20:49:53+00:00

Hiring type designers

Ahem, IMHO the very talented folks at Weta should hire a few type designers to work on quality original fonts in tune with the style of a story and avoid being ridiculed by the interwebs for falling back to overused fonts (Papyrus-like AFAICT) for lettering and subtitles in multi-million-dollar productions...

3 Feb 2010

2010-02-03T20:21:54+00:00

Awareness of font embedding issues

Good to see increased awareness of font embedding issues and the serious need to use fonts which explicitely allow it when you want to do it.

Fontforge offers an Embeddable dropdown and tick boxes in its font information panel to view the fsType - and modify it if you have the rights to branch the font - as well as an os2_fstype object accessible via python.

You always need to make sure to check the embeddability rights associated with the font you want to use. Of course when the designer has chosen a licensing model which explicitly allows embedding like the OFL then no need to worry.

But people wishing to use open fonts under the GPL need to do due diligence of checking what happens there... What with the experimental font exception and its problems...

Xaporho

2010-02-03T20:18:25+00:00

I originally created the font for the Logo of my (ex) hobby band. However I improved it further ;-).

The download contains both a *.otf and *.ttf file.

I still improve the font from time to time. Up to date versions can always be downloaded from www.sf.net/projects/dreha...

3 Feb 2010

2010-02-03T12:54:23+00:00

Libre alternatives to closed ebook platforms

Are the telescreens-like platforms really inevitable? Do we really want authors, publishers and readers to allow computer vendors to push everyone towards Farenheit 451-style book and content control? Do we want the electronic tools with which we read and learn to be stuck in some remotely controlled read-only mode?

Thankfully, there are existing alternatives to the various iWhatever sirens luring people into tinkering-hostile fully DRM-controlled platforms: FBreader to read and manage your ebooks, Calibre and Sigil or epub-tools to create them. All these you can install today on existing platforms. It's worth pointing out that the ePub open standard can also take advantage of the flexibility of @font-face.

Check out the ePub Zen Garden.

Let's not give up our ability to read what we want, keep it and/or share it even with complex writing systems the market does not care about for whatever shiny new device locked down to one single profit-oriented provider.

TrianAlfarera

2010-02-03T12:19:41+00:00

Typical letter
of the city
of Seville,
Andalusia, Spain.
Used in the streets
ceramic signs.

KIKA

2010-02-02T22:00:00+00:00

ΝΑΙ! Mozilla Firefox No1 στην Ελλάδα!

2010-02-02T13:28:54+00:00

Μιλήσαμε πρόσφατα για τα στατιστικά χρήσης του Firefox στην Ελλάδα. Αυτή τη στιγμή έχουμε νέα στατιστικά που συμπεριλαμβάνουν και τον Ιανουάριο 2010.

Με βάση τα στατιστικά στοιχεία από την υπηρεσία statcounter.com, ο Firefox στην Ελλάδα έχει φθάσει για πρώτη φορά το 45% στο μερίδιο αγοράς λογισμικού περιήγησης του διαδικτύου, ξεπερνώντας τον Internet Explorer.

Είναι εξαιρετικό νέο, και συμβαδίζουμε με άλλες χώρες όπως τη Γερμανία με το να χρησιμοποιούμε ελεύθερο λογισμικό και Firefox.

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Collaborative Futures

2010-02-01T09:47:43+00:00

“Collaboration can be so strong it forces hard boundaries. The boundaries can intentionally or unintentionally exclude the possibility to extend the collaboration. Potentially conflict can also occur at these borders” For this years’ Transmediale Festival, the F/LOSS Manuals project took up the challenge to write, edit and publish a collaborative publication in 5 days while test [...]

SERIAC 2010 in Chertsey

2010-01-31T10:39:00+00:00

I’ve attended SERIAC (the South Eastern Region Industrial Archaeology Conference) for the last three years and enjoyed it every time. It’s also very good value at £12.50 for a day of talks that invariably span the whole field of industrial archaeology but remain understandable and interesting. This year it’s hosted by Surrey Industrial History Group at Chertsey Hall in Chertsey on Saturday 24 April. The programme is online; all the talks look genuinely interesting. Hope to see you there.

MyPaint reviewed

2010-01-30T23:55:19+00:00

MyPaint developers released a much anticipated v0.8.0 on Friday, and one of them, Ilya Portnov, wrote a good introduction to MyPaint and a review of changes in this version. Read on! I can’t stop myself from quoting one of the users who commented on the Russian version of the review: “Yeah, great application! I’m painting again!!! [...]

LogoArgonauticos

2010-01-30T21:15:28+00:00

Logo podcasting canal

Valentine scripting

2010-01-29T11:09:10+00:00

Poster and flyer designed and produced in OpenOffice This week and next, colleague and friend An Mertens (a.k.a. Ana Foor) works out of the Elsene local library Sans Souci. She’ll be listening to your account of meeting a loved one for the first time, those habits that keep your relationship alive or which imaginary place [...]

29 Jan 2010

2010-01-29T07:55:44+00:00

@font-face in Firefox 3.6 firstrun page

After the Firefox 3.5 release notes with only a small mention of all the work done on supporting webfonts, it's good to see the Firefox 3.6 firstrun page actually making use of webfonts via @font-face: in this case a non-modifiable font family from FontShop in the web-native WOFF format which enjoys support from many foundries, IOW peace has broken out. (see the related utilities.)

Webfonts are certainly one more step forward for the open web! While many may well prefer fully libre/open fonts instead of freeware fonts you cannot modify to suit your needs, it's already incredibly useful to be able to go beyond the old basic "web-safe" set. Go ahead, spice up your website with some quality webfonts!

Tools for conviviality

2010-01-27T23:35:39+00:00

In the train back from Stuttgart, I read Tools for Conviviality, a pamphlet by social philosopher Ivan Ilich (1973). A ‘convivial society’, he argues, is a society in which everyone can act autonomously, and this can be achieved through the design and use of ‘convivial tools’: People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to [...]

ghetto dot alphahira

2010-01-27T08:42:14+00:00

I couldn't find a font on here that specifically supported Japanese, and I was also in the process of making a "ghetto dot font" and so I decided to include hiragana (one of the Japanese writing systems) with it too. Also includes numbers and basic symbols.

Drawing volumetric objects in Inkscape

2010-01-26T17:59:06+00:00

Yuri Apostol wrote a great tutorial on drawing volumetric objects* in Inkscape: The tutorial covers things like smart use of gradients, blur, clipping paths and simulating the missing conical gradient fill. * the text says “…and my little scarf!”

Subsections in Textpattern

2010-01-25T10:57:00+00:00

One provocative omission from the excellent Textpattern CMS is subsections. I don’t know why it was omitted (probably just because it was out of scope when Dean Allen sat down to write TXP). Now that there’s a codebase, fitting in subsections is slightly tricky. There’s a need to adjust the way that URL rewriting works and there’s also a need to rework the section admin form. I could really do with having this sorted and I have started to scope it out. If somebody would like to sponsor the work let me know ’cos I haven’t got time to do any more for nothing.

Yes, I have investigated what’s out there. It is not good enough, I’m afraid: for one thing, it is susceptable to break with every minor point release. Something better is needed.

Layne Hansom Extras

2010-01-20T17:10:14+00:00

The Layne Hansom font by PhaistosDisk with extra Latin characters added such as ä, ê, Ă„ÂŻ, ó and so on.

itsadzoke

2010-01-20T12:20:25+00:00

odstemplik

2010-01-20T12:16:33+00:00

Web fonts talk online

2010-01-19T11:08:00+00:00

The text and the slides for the talk I gave last night at London Web Standards are online.

In the talk I gave suggestions about how to get started with web fonts which are still a bit of a mess. I’ve also cited a lot of very helpful information on the net so you can get much more detail on the topics I covered. I’ve also stuck the html, css and js test files I used on there. Comments and corrections most welcome.

HiLo-Deco

2010-01-19T02:12:28+00:00

Obviously an attempt to emulate the Deco typefaces of years past.

Only the most basic glyphs are in place, no kerning, and generally poorly done. Constructive critique welcome.

18 Jan 2010

2010-01-18T20:57:21+00:00

Libre Graphics Day(s) - Libre Graphics Meeting

The first Libre Graphics Day kicks off today in Wellington, Australia if you happen to be on this side of the world right now. And if Australia is a bit too far then not to worry the larger Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels, Belgium is only a few months away...

Come join the discussions and all the libre graphics-related creativity in our community.

Five-fold Ornaments etc dingbats

2010-01-18T19:21:55+00:00

This dingbat font contains mainly decorative abstract geometric patterns with five-fold symmetry or quasi-symmetry (over 90 such glyph shapes are included). The font code is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, while the abstract symbol shapes are all in the public domain. The five-fold ornaments are assigned to ASCII characters (basic Latin letters, numerical digits and punctuation) and include spiral designs, interlacings (knotted patterns), labyrinths, various quasi-floral designs (including retro flowers), basic fractals, etc. Simple unelaborated pentagon and pentagram shapes (which can be found in many other fonts) are not included.

Because this font project originated as devising supplemental symbols (and revised versions of a few symbols) for the Discordian dingbat fonts ("Fnord-Hodge" and "Fnord-Podge") by toa267, a few miscellaneous symbols (which are less symmetrical, or are not five-fold at all, or which have specific reference to the Discordian font) are assigned to the first part of the lower-case alphabet. In accordance with the original toa267 font, all characters fit within a 1000-point by 1000-point box.

The font shape outlines were designed using cubic beziers; an unhinted Truetype file (converted from the original Adobe format) is also included. See the text file in the ZIP archive for further documentation.

nY-web, literary blogging

2010-01-18T10:56:54+00:00

Alexandre Leray and Lauren Grusenmeyer just finished an intense collaboration for the website of the literary platform nY— website en tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement, voorheen yang & freespace Nieuwzuid. nY-web exists indepently next to the paper edition with it's own editorial staff, writers categories and settings. While nY is a magazine with a profound literary history it confirms it's existence as an independent web platform, that is to say — it uses full virtues of publishing online.

Calf is awesome

2010-01-17T12:02:00+00:00

I’ve been using Calf pack of DSSI/LV2 audio plug-ins and instruments for a while now (vintage delay is my fav), so since I’m used to bleeding edge software I decided to clone its git repo and see what they’ve been cooking for the next release. After so many years of geeky interfaces native effects on Linux [...]

17 Jan 2010

2010-01-17T00:05:10+00:00

Nock, Io

Via Wes Felter, I came across a fun puzzle language by my old friend C Guy Yarvin. I think of Nock as being in a family of languages with certain things in common: tiny number of primitives, definition can fit on a t-shirt, not quite practical, but powerful and expressive enough that you can imagine writing real programs in it. If this sort of thing appeals to you, I recommend checking it out. I took up his challenge to write an interpreter and sample program, and the core Python interpreter is 38 lines of Python.

Other languages in this vein include SKI combinators, pure lambda calculus, pure LISP, universal turing machines, and Brainfuck. No doubt my readers can come up with several more examples.

All this reminded me of my own Io, which I designed, oh, about 22 years ago. Io is basically a language in which the only primitive is continuations. Because it encompasses the power of simple lambda calculus, you can implement arithmetic and data structures using Church numerals. Probably the best introduction to Io is the chapter out of Raphael Finkel's book, and there's some more good description in notes by Kragen Sitaker.

I only wrote up half of my ideas in the SIGPLAN Notices article (PDF). The other half was primitives for parallelism. In addition to the pure language, "par k1 k2" fires off continuations k1 and k2 in parallel. Then "join k" invokes k with two new continuations, call them "alpha" and "beta". If one thread calls "alpha f" and another "beta x", then the two threads join at that point and invoke "f x". With this primitive, you can easily implement the full range of concurrency operations, including cells with state, input and output (hence the name of the language), etc.

I used to think it would be a good idea to build real systems in Io, but now I guess I've grown up a little. For one, while I think it's important for any serious student of languages to understand CPS, I'm no longer a huge fan of actually using it. Plus, it's much harder to implement things like Io efficiently than I originally thought.

But these languages sure are fun to play with!

Philokalia Regular

2010-01-16T13:04:39+00:00

OpenType support in OpenOffice 3.2 (Greek)

2010-01-15T15:52:40+00:00

The new version 3.2 of OpenOffice.org is being developed and you can currently download the release candidate for your testing purposes.

A big enhancement in OpenOffice.org 3.2 is the support for OpenType fonts. A typical Linux user is able to do most of the tasks with TrueType fonts, however any new exciting fonts available are mostly OpenType fonts. So, OpenOffice.org 3.2 (to be released this month) has OpenType support and most likely Ubuntu 10.04 is going to have OpenOffice.org 3.2.

You can install OpenOffice 3.2 RC (or final, in a few weeks) on your Ubuntu by downloading the relevant archive from download the release candidate. Extract the files and enter the DEBS/ subdirectory. Then, run sudo dpkg -i *.deb in order to install the development version of OpenOffice 3.2. The installed files are located in /opt/ooo-dev3/program/ and you run now run swriter (for Writer). It is quite possible there is already a relevant PPA repository; tell me in the comments and I’ll update here.

We test with the Greek Font Society OpenType fonts, which are distributed with the OpenFont License. The Debian/Ubuntu repositories already have the GFS fonts packaged for you. You can either install the fonts with your package manager (open synaptic package manager, search for ttf-gfs), or run from the command line

sudo apt-get install ttf-gfs-artemisia ttf-gfs-baskerville ttf-gfs-bodoni-classic ttf-gfs-complutum ttf-gfs-didot-classic ttf-gfs-gazis ttf-gfs-neohellenic ttf-gfs-solomos ttf-gfs-theokritos

Here is a screenshot of the PDF file of GFS Fonts Sample. With OpenOffice.org 3.1 or earlier these fonts would not appear in Writer and would be replaced with the default OpenOffice.org font. In addition, if you tried to export to PDF, you would get the default font (that is, the OpenType fonts do not get embedded in the PDF file either).

Here is the .odf file of the GFS Fonts Sample. If you load it in OpenOffice.org 3.1, you will notice that the default OpenOffice.org font will appear for each line in the sample file. If you load the sample .odt file in OpenOffice.org 3.2, you need to have the GFS OpenType fonts installed beforehand.

The GFS fonts support Greek, Greek Polytonic and several ancient Greek characters. See How to type Greek, Greek Polytonic in Linux for instructions on how to configure and use the Greek keyboard layout in Linux. Note that to type Greek Polytonic, you do not need anymore to select the Polytonic layout; the default «Greek» keyboard layout has been updated so that you can type Greek, Greek Polytonic and Ancient Greek characters. Ergo, άᾷᾂϡϖϝ€ϕͼϾʹ͵ϐϛ.

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O S P double

2010-01-14T15:26:11+00:00

Pour le numéro de janvier consacré à la visualisation de données, le magazine français étapes: ouvre une double page à OSP pour notre carte Cinéma du réel 2009. > voir +

Bienvenue to Hadopi logo

2010-01-14T10:22:22+00:00

The Hadopi is a big thing in France. At its origin, a piece of legislation that implements the three strikes model for illegal downloads. You receive three warnings and then you are ‘banned’ from the internet. The authority who is in charge of applying the sanction is the Hadopi. A new logo has been created [...]

Sorry to post about this here

2010-01-12T06:29:39+00:00

But this is semantic war!

It seems someone with my name, also packing an aussie accent, living close to where I grew up is preying on the gullible and the greedy masses via the usual lame online marketing scam frameworks.
So to react, I made www.AndrewFitzsimon.com in an attempt to claw back my integrity and also google-bash them into an honest, less pathetic living.

Anyone else ever have birth name brand-equity issues?
There’s not many Andrew (Andy) Fitzsimon’s out there so I have to draw the line when someone at an international conference confuses me with a con artist.

Remember everyone, I’m the REAL Andrew Fitzsimon.

GNOME Color Manager review

2010-01-11T14:15:28+00:00

As some of you probably know, since recently GNOME users are happy to have a simple color management tool called GNOME Color Manager or GCM, for short. But since this knowledge isn’t equally distributed across mankind , I went ahead and wrote a review. Richard Hughes who is principal GCM’s developer kindly read it [...]

Inkscape Calligraphy

2010-01-11T11:08:12+00:00

I thought I’d share this finding with you The video below is created by Florin Florea who does amazing things with Inkscape.

9 Jan 2010

2010-01-09T14:07:56+00:00

Unpackaged open font of the week posts continue

Don't miss the ongoing unpackaged open font of the week posts by Máirín Duffy from the Fedora Art Team and the Fedora Font SIG. Each entry focuses on a new quality open font with preview and comments from a designer's perspective.

Moglen on GPL business

2010-01-08T05:06:40+00:00

Eben Moglen posted an interesting article about the Oracle-MySQL merger, and discusses why enforcing the GPL with MySQL is good business for Oracle.

Changes in Scribus 1.5.0/SVN

2010-01-08T00:14:37+00:00

Scribus developers wrote in the mailing list about a bunch of new importers available in 1.5.0/SVN and asked most brave hearts running the bleeding edge to test them. Unfortunately they didn’t mention a whole lot of other interesting things and they do not tend to blog a lot about changes, so let’s fix that [...]

Αιολική ενέργεια στην Ευρώπη

2010-01-07T22:38:41+00:00

Όταν κάποιος σκέφτεται για αιολική ενέργεια και αιολικά πάρκα, μια συχνή σκέψη είναι το τι κάνεις όταν δε φυσάει. Πως μπορείς να πετύχεις σταθερή παραγωγή ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας όταν ο άνεμος δεν είναι σταθερός; Είναι βιώσιμη η αιολική ενέργεια για την παραγωγή ηλεκτρικού ρεύματος;

Αυτά είναι από τα πιο συχνά ερωτήματα για τα αιολικά πάρκα. Η απάντηση είναι απλή. Η κατανάλωση ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας κατά τη διάρκεια της ημέρας δεν είναι ούτως ή άλλως σταθερή (κατά τη νύχτα η κατανάλωση είναι χαμηλότερο, ενώ οι μεγάλοι καταναλωστές όπως εργοστάσια ξεκινούν δουλειά το πρωί μέχρι το απόγευμα, κτλ) και το εθνικό δίκτυο ηλεκτρισμού ρυθμίζει ώστε η παρεχόμενη ηλεκτρική ενέργεια να καλύπτει την κατανάλωση.

Χαρακτηριστικό είναι στο ΗΒ όπου γύρω στις 20:00 υπάρχει μια σημαντική άνοδο της κατανάλωσης για λίγα μόνο λεπτά. Η εξήγηση είναι ότι μια δημοφιλής σαπουνόπερα τελειώνει αυτήν την ώρα, και οι τηλεθεατές βάζουν σχεδόν ταυτόχρονα τον βραστήρα για να φτιάξουν τσάι.

Ακόμα, τα αιολικά πάρκα έχουν στόχο να συμπληρώσουν την υπάρχουσα υποδομή παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, με το να γίνεται χρήση όλης της διαθέσιμης ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας από αιολικά πάρκα, και συμπλήρωση της ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας που υπολείπεται από συμβατικές πηγές παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας.

Στην Κρήτη υπάρχουν αιολικά πάρκα που μπορούν να παράγουν 160MW, και για το 2008 προσέφεραν το 14.1% της ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας που καταναλώθηκε στο νησί. Η Ελλάδα θα έχει αιολικά πάρκα το 2010 που θα μπορούν να παράγουν 3.4GW (δε γνωρίζω στοιχεία για το έτος αυτό).

Τι γίνεται στην Ευρώπη; Η Γερμανία είναι στην πρώτη θέση στην Ευρώπη, με αιολικά πάρκα που μπορούν να παράγουν 25GW. Η Ισπανία είναι στη δεύτερη θέση με δυναμικό 16.7GW.

Η Ισπανία είχε πρόσφατα ένα ρεκόρ στην παραγωγή ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας από αιολικά πάρκα· το 60% της συνολικής κατανάλωσης ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας της χώρας, για χρονική περίοδο μερικών ωρών, προερχόταν από αιολική ενέργεια.

Είναι εύκολο να δει κανείς τα στοιχεία σε σχεδόν πραγματικό χρόνο, για τη συμβολή της αιολικής ενέργειας στο ηλεκτρικό δίκτυο της Ισπανίας. Η πράσινη γραμμή δείχνει την παραγωγή ηλεκτρισμού από αιολική ενέργεια σε χιλιάδες MW. Βλέπουμε ότι για σήμερα, μεταξύ 5μμ και 11μμ, υπήρχε παραγωγή τουλάχιστον 9GW από αιολική ενέργεια (η μέση ανάγκη της Ελλάδας σε ηλεκτρική ενέργεια είναι 12GW περίπου). Εκείνο το διάστημα, το ρεύμα από αιολική ενέργεια κάλυπτε το 25% των αναγκών της χώρας (κίτρινο σχεδιάγραμμα, κλικ στην εικόνα αν δεν εμφανίζεται). Η δε αξιοποίηση των γεννητριών της αιολικής ενέργειας για το ίδιο διάστημα ήταν γύρω στο 50%.

Συνεχίστε στην Ελληνική Επιστημονική Ένωση Αιολικής Ενέργειας.

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Firefox και Ελλάδα

2010-01-07T13:44:07+00:00

Τα πιο πρόσφατα στατιστικά χρήσης λογισμικού περιήγησης ιστοσελίδων (web browser) για την Ελλάδα δείχνουν το Firefox να προσεγγίζει το μερίδιο αγοράς του Internet Explorer.

Η πηγή των στατιστικών είναι η υπηρεσία StatCounter.

Σε Γερμανία, Ουγγαρία και Σλοβακία, οι χρήστες Firefox έχουν ξεπεράσει αυτούς από IE. Στην Ελλάδα πότε θα φθάσουμε στο σημείο αυτό;

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Running 14k, sterling

2010-01-04T16:13:00+00:00

Just need to get this off my chest.

I’m self employed, work pretty hard: no holidays, no luxury, no TV. I do have a car but I walk, cycle or train it when I can. I keep the heating low and shop in the most meagre fashion. I’ve got two pairs of presentable trousers. It’s not just long habit, this miserly behaviour, it’s become necessity — don’t ask me how or why but I always thought I was doing the right thing recording income and expenditure and meekly handing the numbers to HMRC.

So a tax bill for £14,076 hasn't made me feel particularly well loved. It’s about half of a really good year’s net income for me (and about three quarters of this year’s). Suffice to say it’s far, far beyond what I can afford.

The moral of this is don't do your own tax return unless you know what you're doing. Regardless of whether I can crawl out of this one, the ongoing corrosion of tax has cramped my style for far too long. It hasn't made me happy, it hasn't made me productive, it's just given me grey hairs.

Thats all, cheers.

Early Christmas, Part II

2009-12-23T18:00:04+00:00

Okay, as expected, some more goodness: digiKam 1.0.0, lots of new features; KIPI plug-ins 1.0.0, only cosmetic changes, though; linuxwacom 0.8.5-8, with OLED support in Intuos4 and all new Bamboo tablets, including (at least partial) multitouch support. And presumably there will be another very important release before new year, more on that soon

Early Christmas again :)

2009-12-19T20:40:45+00:00

In case you missed, there’s a bunch of goodness released recently, for instance: Hugin 2009.4 with basic lens calibration and control points cleanup Enblend/Enfuse 4.0 with OpenMP support (multicore processing), new docs, multilayer TIFF support and more FFADO 2.0.0 that supports lots of Firewire audio interfaces, including some of the evil hostile MOTU I do have a suspicion that [...]

OSP wins Fernand Baudin Prize

2009-12-17T19:04:37+00:00

Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields, published by Constant and designed by OSP with ConTeXt and Scribus, has been awarded one of 9 prizes for The Most Beautiful Book of Brussels and Wallonia ✵ ✯ ✵ More about the prize: http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be About the design and production process (also included in the publication): The Making Of Related [...]

Back from CG event

2009-12-13T20:19:51+00:00

For some reason I never attended previous “CG event” conferences in Moscow and now I’m back from one. I was actually expecting a lot of marketing stuff, but it turned out really, really interesting with lots of insights into game/movie VFX production, tools, workflows, project management and so on. And there are ideas we could [...]

What hits the fan

2009-12-12T22:24:52+00:00

Apparently, RMS did it again. What strucks me in all the recent discussions around RMS, Linus and GNOME is people who believe that RMS is right because of what he has done in the past. Just how much difficult is it to understand that it matters what a person says and not who the person [...]