Aanjhan RANGANATHAN's blog » font http://www.tuxmaniac.com Technology, Science, Education, Travel, Photography, Books and life . . . Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:29:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Fedora Electronic Lab Brochure with Scribus http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2009/02/28/fedora-electronic-lab-brochure-with-scribus/ http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2009/02/28/fedora-electronic-lab-brochure-with-scribus/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:35:56 +0000 aanjhan http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2009/02/28/fedora-electronic-lab-brochure-with-scribus/ Ever since I saw pradeepto distribute hand outs during his sessions on “Contributing to KDE” at Freed and NIT Calicut a year ago, I always wanted to do something similar to that. It is very true that when your audience have something to take back after the session, the impression created is very different. The handouts need not or should not run to pages as this will again bring down the motivation level. So the best thing would be 1 page handouts with all the basic info like where to download stuff, where to ask questions, website, tools provided, a 2-3 line introduction on the project and some nice graphics to please the eyes.

This weekend, I wanted to try my hand at this handout creation and used Scribus for it. I must say Scribus is an excellent Desktop Publishing tool, with very nice video tutorials for starters like me. The effort put in would be something like 4 hrs and the basic draft output looks pretty neat. Lots of tweakings necessary though.

Download the pdf from here. If anyone wants the editable version of the brochure please do leave a comment and I will send it to you.

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Some cool discoveries this weekend..

Installed Conky on my laptop and began to play around with the rc file to customise the view. For the uninformed, conky is a very lightweight system monitor. You can get my .conkyrc file from here. I would like to improvise more on that. For. e.g I dont want eth0 information to be visible when I am connected via wireless and vice versa (dynamic update is what I am looking for). If someone knows how to do it please do post in your comment.

Started using the Rufscript font released by Hiran. A neat handwriting font indeed. But for some reasons I find the font spacing between alphabets very close for me. I know Hiran from the NIT Calicut FOSSMeet events and a really enthusiastic guy. Hiran, way to go! Keep releasing such better fonts to the world. For the Ubuntu folks install the font from asomething’s PPA. For the Fedora folks, Rahul Sundaram has already packaged it and here is the review request.
I always wanted to do some note taking on pdfs and found “Xournal” interesting. Thanks to Nicholas Boichat (my senior in EPFL) for pointing it to me.

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