• Ecofont

    This is a font called Spranq Eco Sans, based on Vera Sans.  The idea is that the little circular holes in the lines making up the letters can save up to 20% of the ink used for printing it out. I think the idea is to get people to think about how much ink they…

  • Super-8 cine film conversion methods

    We have some old Super-8 cine film reels and have been looking around at places that will convert it to something newer e.g. DVD.  It looks like there are two main methods: Frame-by-frame conversion, where each frame is scanned separately and the frame rate adjusted by occasionally doubling frames.  This seems to be quite expensive!…

  • Gutenprint 5.2 update for Fedora 10

    I’ve just submitted a Fedora 10 test update for gutenprint, updating it from 5.0.2 to 5.2.2.  The new stable series 5.2.x was released only days after the freeze for Fedora 10.  Support has been added for lots of new printers.  Please test it out!

  • dawdlr

    My first dawdlr postcard has finally been scanned in and published.  Seems like absolutely ages ago that I posted it… and THAT’S THE POINT.

  • Royal Mail: isn’t it quicker to knock?

    A quick search shows I’m not the only one this has happened to: having been in all day long I discover a card from Royal Mail has come through the door saying “Sorry you were out” and telling me to pick up a parcel the next day.