Category Archives: Backstage

Sneak peek: Executing commands in the command line

Below, a little look at a sidebar running in issue 1.2, next to Pierre Marchand’s piece about his first time setting a book in Scribus. Executing commands in the command line No matter what operating system you’re using, you’ve got … Continue reading

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Best of SVG

You may have guessed already that we at Libre Graphics magazine are crazy in love with the Scalable Vector Graphics format (read more about it from Wikipedia and the W3C). Well, to that end, we’re adding in a new section, … Continue reading

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I love you about $35 000 dollars worth

That’s my best guess at just how much free labour has gone into Libre Graphics magazine since the end of August. Why the math? Because right now, I’m working on our application for the Canada Council for the Arts Literary … Continue reading

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Look! Over there! git!

Have you looked at the right hand side of this blog lately? You may have noticed, beneath the Flattr button and the tag cloud, something new. It’s not only new, but exciting, too. It’s an RSS feed of our git … Continue reading

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Today is a great day to donate

Why? Because today is the day we close books on the finances for issue 1.1. We’ve sold quite a few magazines (but not nearly all of them) and have received some generous donations. But all the money we’ve raised still … Continue reading

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Let’s look at 1.2

It’s January and things are getting pretty exciting. We’ve gotten lots of great submissions for issue 1.2, Use Cases and Affordances. It’s looking pretty great so far. We’ll be featuring some of our usual suspects, as well as people and … Continue reading

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Let’s talk about cash part 1: the basics

We’ve put out a magazine. We’re working on putting out another one, and to keep on putting them out every three months for the foreseeable future. In the run-up to issue 1.1, we blogged and made public lots of details … Continue reading

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