david wrote:
lloyd wrote:
I was surprised to get a written reply from the Education Minister to my
enquiries on this matter. I quote below, which may shed some light on
the Department's decisions.
The NSW Dept of Education Training manages and currently
installs, in parallel with
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
So, the school kids are being taught to develop content for four colour
industrial printing, rather than websites?
I should hope that in an art or technical drawing class the students have
the opportunity to use the correct technology for the medium they are
working
I was surprised to get a written reply from the Education Minister to my
enquiries on this matter. I quote below, which may shed some light on
the Department's decisions.
The NSW Dept of Education Training manages and currently
installs, in parallel with Microsoft Office suite, Open Office
lloyd wrote:
I was surprised to get a written reply from the Education Minister to my
enquiries on this matter. I quote below, which may shed some light on
the Department's decisions.
The NSW Dept of Education Training manages and currently
installs, in parallel with Microsoft Office
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
from that link:
How its works:
* Open your RGB image in Gimp via File Open
*
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
from that link:
How its works:
* Open your RGB image in
On 17/05/2009, at 5:46 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
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The
On 17/05/2009, at 5:46 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
--8-- snipped --8--
The
david wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
from that link:
How its works:
* Open
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
david wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
2009/4/2 Ben shadr...@gmail.com:
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
from that
david wrote:
snip
I'm not an expert but I believe that the lack of native CMYK is
fundamental to the printing problems. It's rather more than a fancy
feature. Printing photos and artwork is fundamental to a whole industry
(or two).
There are other software with colour management (cinepaint
On Mon, May 18, 2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
So, the school kids are being taught to develop content for four colour
industrial printing, rather than websites?
Personally, I would think that school kids and FOSS developers time is
better
spent improving tools and adding to content in
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
david wrote:
snip
I'm not an expert but I believe that the lack of native CMYK is
fundamental to the printing problems. It's rather more than a fancy
feature. Printing photos and artwork is fundamental to a whole
industry (or two).
There are other software with
Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
So, the school kids are being taught to develop content for four colour
industrial printing, rather than websites?
Personally, I would think that school kids and FOSS developers time is
better
spent improving tools and
2009/4/2 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com:
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
from that link:
How its works:
* Open your RGB image in Gimp via File Open
* Start Seperate+ Image Window Image
2009/4/1 Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au:
Why do they think the software is 'worth' anything??
How to save $25 Million dollars use OpenOffice, GIMP, Paint.net, Blender
???, Picsa, Canvas??, Bluefish etc.
Sorry, but some of this stuff just isn't up to scratch.
GIMP and Inkscape can't do
Ben wrote:
GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK,
Does this not do it for Gimp?
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-cmyk
and this for inkscape (0.47):
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/inkscape-cmyk
If you want to campaign for open source, then probably try to get some
government money
I agree that Neooffice also was quite stinky when I used (some time ago I
must admit), but now OO.o works really well on the Mac as of version 3 -
it's come a long way since Version 2 which I found had all sorts of issues,
the best build that I had also had all the UI icons upside down, but
Ben wrote:
2009/4/1 Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au:
Why do they think the software is 'worth' anything??
How to save $25 Million dollars use OpenOffice, GIMP, Paint.net, Blender
???, Picsa, Canvas??, Bluefish etc.
Sorry, but some of this stuff just isn't up to scratch.
snip
I sit here
Dear list,
Chinese computer company Lenovo has won a contract to provide 200,000
laptops for NSW secondary school students.
The NSW government has also announced agreements reached with software
giants Microsoft and Adobe to provide an extensive suite of software for
the laptops.
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