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*QuicheLoraine

Loraine A. Baird
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About Me Premium Member Deviously Deviant QuicheLoraineFemale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 1 Year
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Quixotic, sometimes cheesy, silly, artist, fiddler, painter, drawer, Inkscaper, Super Vector Girl, lefty, INFP, Neo-Jungian, perennial philosopher, still learning, changing, growing, late bloomer, religiously unaffiliated but highly spiritual, overly obsessed with music, art, and colour, post-depression, Scrabble player, idealist, Promethean, black sheep, loathe unanswered questions therefore a researcher, somewhat of a geek, very bookish, Open Source software junky, retro, iconoclastic, tolerant, open-minded, compassionate, passionate, peace lover, human rights supporter, best friend, soul mate, mother, genealogist...quintessential nifty oddball

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  • Current Residence: Nashvegas
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: noneya!
  • Print preference: Gilcee, Lino, Silkscreen
  • Interests: Art, Music, Perennial Philosophy, Dao, Quantum Physics, Open Source, Inkscape, SVG,
  • Favourite movie: O Brother Where Art Thou, Triplets of Belleville, too many to mention
  • Favourite band or musician: Django Reinhardt, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Louvin Brothers, Jethtro Burns, Ella Fitzgerald...who has one?
  • Favourite genre of music: Gypsy Swing, ambient groove, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, folk, Garage Punk, Zydeco,
  • Favourite artist: Frida Kahlo
  • Favourite poet or writer: Aldous Huxley
  • Favourite photographer: Man Ray
  • Favourite style of art: Surrealism, Pop Art, Ukiyo-e, vintage advertising, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Pre-Raphaelite
  • Operating System: Ubuntu
  • MP3 player of choice: VLC Media Player
  • Shell of choice: All hail the magic conch shell!
  • Wallpaper of choice: If we're talking interior wallpaper- ik! 'Puter wallpaper- usually something I have design
  • Skin of choice: soft, blemish and wrinkle free and I'm kinda stuck with the colour
  • Favourite game: Scrabble, Othello
  • Favourite gaming platform: The kitchen table
  • Favourite cartoon character: Felix the Cat
  • Tools of the Trade: Inkscape, Rotoscope, acrylics, 100 lb vellum Bristol

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~BuckleyTypographics Nov 1, 2009, 4:39:16 AM
Thank you for the watch. Stop by anytime, comments are encouraged. I'll try to do something worth watching.

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Any small unit dedicated to qualitative action can enact radical change on a scale beyond its quantitative measure. – Robert Fripp
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~shanesemler Aug 5, 2009, 8:57:44 AM
I found an even newer PPA for Inkscape: [link]

This is an extremely useful search site, specifically for PPA Ubuntu packages: [link]
:iconademos:
~ademos Aug 14, 2009, 11:40:11 AM
Impressive! I had the older PPA, but this one is great. Thanks for the link.
:iconquicheloraine:
*QuicheLoraine Aug 7, 2009, 10:41:27 AM
Thank you Shane! I have that one. Ted Gould, the PPA key owner is one of the guys on the webcast interview you mentioned a few weeks ago. Thanks for the PPA search page too! Awesome!

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. -Aldous Huxley
:iconademos:
~ademos Jul 27, 2009, 1:20:55 PM
A true champion of Inkscape majesty!

Keep up the impressive vector art!
:iconquicheloraine:
*QuicheLoraine Jul 28, 2009, 10:42:01 AM
Aw! Thank you! :hug:

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. -Aldous Huxley
:iconademos:
~ademos Aug 14, 2009, 11:39:14 AM
My pleasure! I look forward to what you'll come up with next.
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~shanesemler Jul 6, 2009, 11:13:04 AM
Interview with a couple of the main Inkscape devs on TWiT: [link]

Btw, I've used SVG for print. Scribus has great SVG support and perfect PDF output. I just had to turn my colours to CMYK in combination with my old Pantone book and a website that had Pantone to CMYK conversions. I got perfect colour output from our printer.
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*QuicheLoraine Jul 6, 2009, 12:41:30 PM
Thank you so much Shane! :hug: I have it playing! Printing...I was referring to commercial printing, art prints, which, because of the differences in how to plot an SVG vs. an AI vector (which is like apples vs. oranges- SVG can be read like a text, and edited, unlike other image formats), and the Pantone CYMK vs. RGB issue, there are still very few commercial companies that are capable of plotting them without converting them. AI is still the industry standard pre-press software used in most commercial printing companies, and Pantone is the standard colour profile. I don't think they originally envisioned SVG for print graphics as SVG was originally intended for web graphics and graphical interfaces, and it has only been within recent years that it has been considered for print graphics. Personally, I think it's scalability, immaculate res whatever scale, and the fact that the original SVG stays the same file size (usually in mere KB's as opposed to a 300dpi, big ass raster image) makes it the perfect format for printing.

After your conversions and printing an SVG on your personal printer, you probably have gotten the gist of my commercial printing dilemma :D

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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. -Aldous Huxley
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