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Miscellaneous Stuff: Layouts, Spam, Poster PDFs, etc.
Note: Still working on the book. Hope to be done soon. More information will be posted when I actually finish. To the many kind people who have asked, I am still alive. Yes, I am still working on the...
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2011 Calendar Scribus Template
Over the past week, I’ve been helping a non-profit put together a yearly thank-you calendar. I’ve been using Scribus, and so far, it’s been going very smoothly. Scribus includes a nifty “Calendar...
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Touching the Face of God
Today was the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Considering that it is a major anniversary of a catastrophic event, I’ve been somewhat surprised at the response. Or, I guess I...
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Next Monday, I’m going to be giving a talk entitled “Writing and Publishing With Open Source Tools” at Camp KDE, the annual KDE conference for North America. For those interested in attending, the talk...
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LibreGraphics Magazine and Conference
You know that obsession I’ve got with awesome stuff and the compulsion to share it? Well, it seems to have taken hold this morning. There are two things in the RSS feed today that simply must be...
View ArticleVisual Thinking, Explained
In the Open Source Writing book, I’ve got a section of Visual Thinking. While I’m hardly an expert, the way we perceive and understand the world is a serious interest of mine an I read everything I can...
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LibreGraphics Magazine – Issue 1.3
LibreGraphics magazine is one of those bold things that the open source world needs more of. It’s designed as a catalyst for discussion and, more importantly, a showcase of what can be accomplished...
View ArticleOn the Subject of Notes
Sometimes it’s important to be extremely fussy about otherwise inconsequential things. There’s a reason why people fight over the proper pronunciation of már ‘habitation in Quenya (the m takes on an mb...
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An Elegant (Book) Template
One of the most difficult (and, subsequently, rewarding) publications to create is that of a photographic or fine arts book. Unlike a novel, or a book with a sane number of images, fine arts books have...
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Importing Word Documents Into LyX (word2lyx 0.1)
For many writers, the act of writing (or placing one word after another) is synonymous with the tool that they use to do it. There’s a reason why writers feel so strongly about their moleskin...
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