Category: The GIMP
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Success! Mostly!
With some work and fiddliness, I have finally made my first miniproject goalpost complete. It’s a simple one-page, character dossier of one of the sample characters in the book. Download it here! Producing this took a combination of Inkscape, the pstools suite, The Gimp, and Scribus. The biggest problem I faced with this was something…
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The most recent WTF…
After a bit of a break, I’ve come back to the book again and spent a little time looking at alternative faces for the previously mentioned Blambot choice, Wicked Queen. I went back and looked at another Comics inspired fontmaker, Iconian Fonts to see if I could find something that suited. To the left you’ll…
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Getting Back to it.
Quite a bit of idle here. Well, trying to get back to it. Skipped ahead to Modern Knights in the project list. So, Let’s restate the problem. As I said originally, http://oss.copy.to/2010/12/whats-this-all-about/, This is about rebuilding old projects originally done in Pagemaker 6/6.5 in Scribus. While I will be using SVN scribus, everything else will…
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The First Challenge – Master Pages
The Pharos Press Edition of Lace and Steel made use of two sets of Master Pages. The first set blank, the second a set of right, left sidebar pages with a sword and rose emblem. For some reason, inexplicable to me, this emblem art was saved as an EPS. Probably because it was the only…