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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "typo"

Scribus 1.3.3.12 Update

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The stable branch of Scribus is updated to 1.3.3.12.
This version shipped with:
* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

New Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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As i can see there are new Scribus SVN builds available from this weekend for Fedora 9. Hopefully someone updates the builds for Debian/ Ubuntu too :smile:
Thomas Zastrow wrotes a little preview about what we can expect from Scribus 1.3.5.
My favorite wishes about Scribus 1.3.5 are CMYK-Tiff images with alpha work in PDF documents and the text frames renembers their font properties and display them correct in the property panel.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080607

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. This versions offers new dialogs, improved sfnt header checks, a new russian translation, some new Python commands and of course bugfixes & improvements. Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080429

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of bugfixes and smaller improvements . Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port :frown: Hopefully this port didn't died.
A Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080330

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations. Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port.

60 brilliant typefaces for corporate design

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Another fine special about font design by Smashing Magazine: 60 brilliant typefaces for corporate design

DejaVU font updated

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One of the best open source fonts are updated again: DejaVu. Take a look and read all about the changes in 2.24 (mostly rendering instructions). You can download the font here.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080303

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Another month is over and so a new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. The big new thing in this release are "Layers". Read the change log for details.

Scribus 1.3.5 sneak preview

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Scribus is a fine open source application for print and dtp. I'm using 1.3.4 often but it has its bug and so i'm waiting for an update. I was a little bit confused about the newer 1.3.3.x releases because 1.3.4 sounds like a successor of 1.3.3. Now i found a little preview of Scribus 1.3.5 which will hopefully hit the streets soon.
If you using Ubuntu, you can get this SVN build easy:
Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080203

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations.
There is now an incomplete FontForge which uses the GTK toolkit, which will hopefully be the end of the ugly GUI of Fontforge. Read the change log for details.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080109

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A new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. It comes with a many changes.
There is now an incomplete FontForge which uses the GTK toolkit, which will hopefully be the end of the ugly GUI of Fontforge. Read the change log for details.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20071210

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes and smaller improvements.

FontForge 20070831

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A new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. It comes with a many changes. I wished they would porting it to GTK to have a nice interface instead of this very oldschool, ugly GUI.