Here the Black Ink plugin for The Gimp : blackink.py
(previous version, but YMMV blackink1.py)

This plugin transforms an image to a B&W drawing made with ink.

Screenshot of the plugin, and some example :

(params: no, 6, 8, 180, 0.2, 64)

Version 1.2 of the plugin, GPL v3 license, tested with Gimp 2.3.19, should work with any version of Gimp using the Gimp-python extension.

Here a plugin for The Gimp : multiborders.py

Multi border plugins generator for The Gimp aim to manage resizing to fixed format and adding of monocolor border to photos.
This plugin generates several actual plugins, each of them in charge of scaling an image to a definite size (in pixels) with a border (in mm).
Usefull to prepare photos for paper printing.

The plugins are not interactive, they appear as a list of choices in the Image/resize and border/ sub menu of Gimp.
The values can be modified as needed in a 'table' in the script.
The numbers correspond to the size of the file the guy printing your photos is expecting, for me it's :

4"x6"    = 10x15 cm =  1200 x 1800 pix  at 300 dpi
5"x7.5"  = 13x19 cm  = 1500 x 2250 pix  at 300 dpi
6"x8.27" = 15x21 cm  = 1800 x 2480 pix  at 300 dpi
7"x10.5" = 18x27 cm  = 2100 x 3150 pix  at 300 dpi
8"x12"   = 20x30 cm  = 2400 x 3600 pix  at 300 dpi
12"x18"  = 30x45 cm  = 5316 x 3600 pix  at 300 dpi

Configuration at the beginnng of the script :

# order of the columns in the table below :
# x, y, border, color, dpi, orientation, autosave, comment
#
# x, y       : target paper size in pixel 
# border     : size of the border around the image, in mm
# color      : color of the border (RGB), do not add spaces between numbers!
# dpi        : dot-per-inch, generally 300, to convert border size in pixels
# orientation: default is to use same orientation than the image for the
#              resizing (value: "-"), put a "H" or "V" to force orientation
#              to landscape or portrait.
# autosave   : change the "S" to "-" to not have the new image automatically 
#              saved as a jpeg.
# comment   :  you can add a small comment for the name of the plugin in the
#              menu (no space here! use "_" for space)
#
# If you use more than 20 lines in this table, add some more lines 
# "def scale_border_21, 22, etc... at the end of the file.
#

table=


1800    1200    4       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
1800    1200    6       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
1800    1200    6       (255,255,255)   300     V   S   -
1800    1200    6       (192,192,192)   300     -   -   gray
2250    1500    5       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
2250    1500    8       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
2480    1800    8       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
3150    2100    7       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
3150    2100    10      (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
3600    2400    8       (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
3600    2400    12      (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
5316    3600    20      (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
5316    3600    40      (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
2480    1800    12      (255,255,255)   300     -   S   -
1800    1200    0       (255,255,255)   300     -   -   no_border

Version 1.1 of the plugin, GPL v3 license, tested with Gimp 2.3.19, should work with any version of Gimp using the Gimp-python extension.

A few tools to work with OpenDocument files:

odt2html.py is a python command line script that makes a basic conversion of a .odt (OpenDocument) text into a HTML file. Other conversions are possible by changing the loaded XSL style sheet.

odfconvert is a perl command-line tool that transforms an OpenDocument file according to any user-provided XSL style sheet. For example convert from .odt to html.

Both tools were developped at Ars Aperta by Jean-Marie Gouarné and myself after the work of the ODF Fellowship upon ODF converters based on XSL style sheets. Both softwares are hosted at ArsAperta.org, ODF tools.

- More information on odt2html.py
- Download odt2html.py.tar.gz

- More information on odfconvert
- Download odfconvert.tar.gz

Intallation of a small news agregator using rawdog.
(So, the other system of the old site is stopped.)

http://hamete.org/news/

That's the company I founded a few months ago with my associates Sylvestre Taburet et Charles-H. Schulz :
"Ars Aperta is an independent consulting firm focusing on free and open source software related strategies for corporate and governmental organizations."

The name means something like "open technologies" in latin.

Ars Aperta, a consulting firm specialized in Free & Open Source Software strategies and community relationship management.

New links in the category Things : files of a Nomic game, and pages about The Library of Babel.