Fontmatrix is a free/libre font explorer for Linux, Windows and Mac
Casual computer users often give little thought to fonts, but once you starting working on design — from your web site to your stationary needs, you soon begin to appreciate the positive effects a good typeface can have on branding and marketing. The trouble comes when you start to collect more fonts on your system than you can keep track of in your head. Worse yet, most operating systems attempt to manage fonts for you in an all-or-nothing fashion, through which large collections can slow down application speed, in addition to being tiresome to scroll through. The solution is a good font manager, like the open source Fontmatrix.
by Nathan Willis
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We have covered how to clean a beyond-filthy printer here. The databazaar blog has a informative post on eliminating ink blots when using your Inkjet printer. Dont forget, reducing the DPI settings in the printer properties can increase the quailty of your print when using inkjet printers!
Ink in ballpoint pens and inkjet printer cartridges share a common trait — they’re designed to dry quickly. Fast-drying ink works well when the ink dries on paper, but not so well if the ink dries on the printhead that dispenses it. When ink dries on a ball point of a pen, the ball no longer rolls smoothly on paper to evenly distribute ink, which creates blots of ink on a page. The same is true for inkjet printers when ink dries on the printhead — blots of ink appear on a printed page.
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The “Free Culture” Movement, instantiated in a 2004 publication by Creative Commons founding member Lawrence Lessig, is a reaction to content ownership in a digital age. Because The Open Clip Art Library is, at it’s core, a platform to freely share and collaborate created content, it will be forever intertwined with the Movement.
The Free Culture Research Conference was born of a need from academics, in various disciplines, to analyze and discuss the implications of the Free Culture Movement.
The FCRC Organizers are seeking to establish an identity for these annual Conferences, and they are asking for the help of the Open Clip Art Community!
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Full sheet labels (blank one shown above) are one of the best selling size labels. The whole sheet is one label. For USA customers it is letter size 8.5″ x 11″ (similar to ISO size a4). Surprise! It has so many uses, the possibilities are endless. The full sheet label consists of three parts: the face stock which can be made out of several different materials; the adhesive which is coated to the facestock, and; the liner, which is peeled off from the facestock, then you can apply the label sheet to almost any surface. read more »
The Open Clip Art Library has seen tremendous growth and change during the initial half of the year. Today, the platform continues it’s evolution with the Spring 2010 Release!
This release is unique to previous iterations, as members of the OCAL Community have begun contributing to a new Themed Clip Art Package. Each subsequent Open Clip Art Library Release will now include a batch of unique work, created by some of the Community’s amazing graphic artists!
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Souvenirs of the Godmothers
One of the most important and exciting for my wedding was the choice of godparents. A bit difficult because, thank God, I have many options for people to bless our union. I chose some very special friends who are very present in my life and my boyfriend chose some relatives. We wanted to please our godfathers with little gifts for women and I chose to make some souvenirs. A solution cheap and also serves as a reminder of a great wedding feast. It was quite romantic! read more »
In this tutorial we will look at application support for creating high-quality designs using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) templates. SVG offers some unique opportunities over several of the other popular file formats in which templates are found. Most notably, SVG is vector-based, so it scales smoothly to every conceivable resolution — but unlike other vector formats (such as PDF), it is designed to be edited in any image editor, making it a good fit for your office workflow.
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The wedding cake has endured a centuries-old tradition dating back to the days of the Romans, when the groom would break a loaf of bread over the bride’s head, symbolizing the breaking of the bride’s virginal state and the subsequent dominance of the groom over her. Today, the cake is too large and unwieldy to pick up and break over the bride’s head. Additionally, the bride may retaliate if the groom even thought about reviving this ancient custom.
One other tradition, the groom’s cake, is a fading practice as well. But, it can be a sweet (literally) tradition to continue if you’re so inclined. Read on to learn more about the groom’s cake and how you can create or purchase boxes for your friends and family to carry away from the reception. read more »
Can you save money by moving your business to GNU/Linux? The short answer is that you can. However, the long answer is that how much you save — or if you save at all — depends upon your resources and choices. If you are lucky, you might find a study comparable to your situation to help you plan, but most of these studies are biased one way or the other, so you should still need to do your own assessment as you plan the move.
Whether a switch is worth your effort is usually calculated in terms of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). As the term emphasizes, TCO includes not only the cost of buying and installing the software, but also the cost of hardware to run it, administering it, training employees to use it, and maintaining and supporting it. Sometimes, TCO is divided into first year costs and yearly costs, to reflect the extra expenses of setup and configuration, and the presumably lower costs of running an ongoing system. But, however TCO is calculated, what matters is that making the switch is not just as simple as assuming that, because GNU/Linux has no licensing fees, you will automatically save money.
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Developers at The Open Clip Art Library have been diligently implementing updates to the latest 2.1 Release of the site. Contributions and discussion about OCAL’s next steps have been progressing rapidly through platforms like bug reporting and the official mailing list. As preparations for the next iteration begin, the Librarians would like to announce the addition of a new element to upcoming and future releases, in the form of a coinciding themed package release!
The package will consist of images created by artists and developers of The Open Clip Art Library. Each collection of work will be centered around aspects of life relating to the current month or season of the year.
For this initial release, new submissions relating to the Spring Season will be included. In order to produce a stunning collection of vector images, users are encouraged to upload appropriately themed work to the site in the coming weeks.
Librarians at the Open Clip Art Library have set a goal of May 27th for the release of the Spring-themed clip art package, in honor of the 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting, in Brussels.
The Librarians hope to further encourage user contributions and collaborations with this exciting new aspect to The Open Clip Art Rlease Schedule. Everyone wishing to contribute can do so by registering, joining the mailing list, and uploading artwork!
