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Gnuplot: SVG export and Inkscape — annoyances and workarounds

July 1st, 2009

I’m making some data plots with gnuplot right now that will be fed to pdfLaTeX later. So I could just have gnuplot create .ps or .eps files, but for some reason it always gets the font completely wrong. When reverse engineering pdf files that have the font I want and feeding gnuplot with that exact [...]

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FrOSCon 2009

April 12th, 2009

“FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.
“We are looking for contributions about current developments from the whole field of Free Software and Open Source., e.g.:”

Operating [...]

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Creating schematics and PCB layouts with open source tools

November 19th, 2008

On my quest to build the electronics for my LED RGB matrix gadget, I’ll be dealing with gEDA and KICAD for the next few weeks. For windoze users, there’s also FreePCB.
The prototype will still be finished using perfboard and should hopefully be done by x-mas, but the remaining 4 pieces are crying for PCBs. Maybe [...]

robert Electronics., PCBs 'n stuff. , ,