Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Jon will give an intro to the scribus project, what it is, what it does, who it's for, and demo some of it's key features.

Yes, we all suffer from overcommitment, pledged allegiances, and die-hard free associations in free software. We often forget to factor in basic bodily processes like eating, sleeping, and person hygiene. Instead, we use our extra time to make fonts, clipart and hack on free software! I'm the worst offender! This talk is directed at all the tasks I said I would do which I have partially done. I'm presenting these tasks as complete or handing-off the next steps to completion, or sharing my power to other people to be free of the *OPEN* burden I've taken on.

So you want to design some Free graphical objects, and turn them lose in the community. Wonderful. But what do you use to design them with? There are numerous packages out there for 2D, 3D and even 4D use - but which one is appropriate for your task? Not only for your personal use, but being an awesome person you're placing them in the hands of the community - so you'd better get your choice of tools and file formats right or people will find it hard to develop your objects further.

Carl Worth is the lead developer of the Cairo graphics library. He will talk about the relationship between graphics and drivers, getting rid of X a piece at a time, and gaze a little into what the future looks like...

Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output.

This is an introductory session for those wanting to know more about how graphics really works on linux.

Impromptu Lightning Talk Timeslot

2-3 min LTs

Welcome to Libre Graphics Day!

• What it's all about and why we're here!
• Introducing the speakers and sessions we have on today,
• Setup to streamline presentation changeovers.

You know the look... now know the laziness required be 'fresh'

This is a short, tongue-in-cheek 'dirty tricks' inkscape tutorial on how to make your UI designs shiny, reflective, rough, deep, layered, sparkling, glowing and generally awesome...

I'll cover all the quick and easy ways to 'bling up' your design with minimum forethought and effort. Everybody on a deadline loves a quick win technique and this is how the pros do it.

In this technical talk, I'll give a brief introduction to colour management, how it works and why it's important, and then describe what we've been doing in the Ghostscript project to improve our support for ICC profiles.

The last few years were very important for Blender, with the introduction of brand new
and impressive features and, consequently, an increased professional usability.
One of the most evident (and good...) characteristic of Blender are its differences from
any other similar tool. This can easily become a significant problem in teaching
Blender as key of a course if students already have experience of other (often
commercial) tools, used in schools.
The Industrial Design courses of Politecnico di Torino introduced Blender in didactics

Tired of generation tired looking PDFs from your website? Using Inkscape, XSLT and a bit of code twiddling you can generate fantastic looking PDFs with dynamic content.

Peter will show you how he uses the Inkscape and pdftk tooks - in combination with PHP/MySQL based websites - to generate pretty PDFs for end users.