Scribus 1.3.5 Beta is a open source software aimed at pre-preparation of documents. The aim of the team that developed it, is to make a program that is easy and convenient so as to enable ordinary users without much knowledge to use it, but do not lose quality and features that will seek a professional. The program supports various functions such as working with CMYK colors, import and export to PDF, EPS and SVG, the processing of Unicode text and more. Scribus 1.3.5 Beta supports 25 languages.
You have heard about the image formats jpeg, png, and gif. But what about svg? SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), according to Wikipedia, is a family of specifications of XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics,
Mr. Schepers put together a proposal entitled Referenced Parameter Variables in SVG. This would allow declarative access to parameters from a parent document.
PDFCreator creates PDFs from any Windows program, using it like a printer.
The latest version of the open source product adds SVG output (experimental).
The SVG Open 2009 organizing committee is looking for contributors presenting a paper or teaching a course. Presenters are asked to submit an extended abstract in English with an approximate length of 400 to 800 words by May 15 ...
Eleanor at the Vendibles Blog has a very ambitious goal to create a free SVG for every day for a year. She’s about a month in and her track record so far is quite impressive
Demonstrations of several future Web technologies. This demonstration works in Firefox 3.1 beta 3 (well, at leastlinux). A bit more work could be done to make it work with webkit. To see the east asian Ruby annota...
Martin Owens , the leader of the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community (LoCo) Team and general guru for things GNU/Linux, has published a delightful little book (currently in draft form) that explains the concept of Free and Open Source Software. Available in PDF form as well as in the SVG source.