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Pierre Huyghebaert

A student asks me a question about #optimisation and #nesting so i'm back into "16 Case stories, re-imagining the practice of layout" with @colm @Femke @Ludi #OpenSourcePublishing
Published in 2012
"a catalogue put together as part of an attempt to rethink #layout tools, and features case stories that range from historical to present, on to the imaginary and speculative. The ‘camera-ready copy’ of this book was created on a pen #plotter: this has required a rethinking of the workflow, including a special font stack built upon engraving tools, to be able to use stroke based fonts."
Tools: #ActiveArchives, #LibreOffice, #Inkscape, Custom #Herschey Inkscape plugin, #Roland pen plotter, laser printer, glue and scissors. Printing: Risograph and Roland Pen Plotter.
Provided by calibre.constantvzw.org/book/5 - Thx @constant

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An extract from manual text placement on a map with an attempt to imagine algorithm for automatic text placement which produce the same interweaving.
"Vector declutch Ludi Loiseau. drawing for Ligue based on isotype This image was drawn in llustrator. The top image is o screenshot from the wireframe preview, exposing the actual construction of the vector image. The image below is a preview of the rendered output. The image is the result of o mix of overlaps, linestyles and other transformations. Some of these steps are “baked”. or disengaged . meaning their transformations cre processed into an actuel stroke. Others are live effects opplied to vector-objects. The two images were juxtaposed because we needed to check if the drawing would not produce problems in production. Machines such as lasercutters and plotters, produce output based on the actual stroke of the image. How about? There could be an in-between view where wireframe and final rendering would be overlayed. It would be useful to expose more of the intermediate steps between the construction of the wireframe and how they are processed."
An article on "Multi-level type design" and another on "Nested interface optimisation"
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mousebot

are there any linux layout/graphics nerds around who know how to make a Scribus page or text box into a transparent layer in Gimp?

i'd like to add some text as wrangled in Scribus onto an image in Gimp. (Scribus has powerful text manipulation features, the wrangling is already done, i want to avoid trying to reverse-engineer it using Gimps rather awful text manipulation features.)

#layout#scribus#gimp
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clew

Computer printing history question: Why is imposition such a pain? At what level is “a page” so different from “this graphic” that imposition is still handled by different software than the rest of page layout?

Historical quirks and links to explanations, vague memories of subtle bugs, all welcome.

#printing #layout #typesetting (not using imposition as a hashtag because it's a lively one with a different meaning)

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Strange Quark

Today is #DocumentFreedomDay!

The first rule of Document #Freedom Day is that we talk about open #document formats and tools that allow documents to be accessed, edited and shared by anyone, without restrictions or reliance on specific software or vendor lock-in.

I wrote the post below to talk about the #free and #open formats and #opensource tools that I am using for the #writing #typesetting and #layout of Return of the Ripper.

kickstarter.com/projects/micha

#latex#inkscape#gimp
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Daniel

Random thought:

I wonder if the trend in having a vertical tab bar in browsers will also have an impact in how we design websites.

In particular I am thinking about centered content, e.g. the timeline here on Mastodon. With a vertical tabs sidebar open that content is not really visually centered anymore.

Maybe I am just overthinking and this is not a real issue at all? 🤔

#web#design#development
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