KevinDonnot

Free as in free beer?

Hello,

As a professional book designer and graphic design professor, I am sorry but I can’t rely to switch my main tools (and student guidance) over policy claim from Canva.

I totally get that inference and maintaining software is very costly. If the business model is only oriented toward AI tools, a very good proof of good faith would be to open source and provide a pay-per-use AI API. I have no doubts that a good part of the graphic design community would quickly shift to free as in free speech tools with a foreseeable future. We desperately need a Blender for DTP…

Yes, excellent paper! It’s to great to see a (free-libre-open source) foundry like Velvetyne also contributing to research.

Hell yes, I would definitely switch to Linux (and engage my students to do so) if serious alternatives to Adobe were available.

+ real-time collaborative version

An open-source alternative to Adobe DTP software, especially a scripting friendly version of InDesign yet suitable for professionals?

psDooM is what you need: a FPS to frag system processes

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

See also SmoothLife, an amazing continuous version of Game of life. Integers are replaced by floats providing the same patterns with circular shapes. Here: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OCA:SmoothLife

Amazing work Raphaël! I’ve been showing this to my graphic design students in a code class and they immediately get the taste of editing in the browser inspector.

Great read, with a beautiful design!

Eric Schrijver, the author, also runs a great blog titled “I Like Tight Pants and Mathematics”. Post archive here: https://i.liketightpants.net/and/archives

1. This initiative is vital to contemporary book design which suffers from a total monopole owned by Adobe.

2. Book designers and digital UI designers are two distinct jobs which need to overlap to go further: designing books with code, include in print design what we learnt from the Web, transmit typographic culture to the digital designers eye, etc.

Long life Paged.js!

(until browsers finally support W3C specs for paged print, CSS-Regions and others)