Like any other modern GNU/Linux distribution, Ubuntu has no shortages of software for printing labels. Many users content themselves with the label and mail merge features in OpenOffice.org Writer or in Abiword or KOffice. All these solutions will do a basic job, especially with text. But what if you want elaborate formatting or graphics with [...]

Last week’s featured work focused on minimalism. This week’s featured Clip Art of the Week comes from Papapishu. He has taken the approach to find old pages from books that are in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons, extracts the clip art, and then converts them into vector graphics. The results are quite amazing:

The original [...]

There are times when all you want or need is something to just work and get the job done quickly and efficiently without frills or fuss. You probably don’t want to fire up Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator to create just a few labels. You want legibility, and maybe some zip, but edgy for your file labels is probably not what you had in mind when you contemplated cleaning up your file folders.