Feb 5, 2014 – CLUG Meeting (Wednesday) Meeting Time: meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM
doors open at 6:00 PM Room Number: TBA Location: U of C down town campus 906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB http://clug.ca/wordpress/category/events/ Talk by Kin Wong IT Analyst | University of Calgary – DTC One Business Application of Gimp and Inkscape Scenario – We have architectural drawings to a building in PDF format. The Architects don’t answer my calls and even if they did, they would want lots of dollars for the Autocad drawings. The as-built already cost some $30K. The money spent on the emergency evacuation signage are incomplete and some are wrong, we don’t have way of finding signage that are customized to location, and we rent space but don’t have any maps or illustrations for marketing materials. Of course we are also cash constrained otherwise if you throw enough money at a problem, it goes away. Solution – Using 2 open source tools for graphics (this spells free on 3 levels – free in terms of cost, free in terms of choice, and free to use on all 3 major platforms (Linux, Windows and OSX), we can take what we have and generate what we need. You also don’t need a lot of talent but you will need some patience. The tools we are going to be using are Gimp and Inkscape. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
