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Linux
Brochure
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Announcement of LBP-1.2.0
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The Linux Brochure Project (LBP) version 1.2.0 has been released. LBP is a
GPLed Linux advocacy and publicity project which documents key Linux
information in a standard-size brochure (two sides of a single letter- or
A4-sized sheet of paper which is Z- or C-folded into the six mini-pages of
the brochure). Since
release 1.1.0 we have made the following
important improvements:
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The build process has been substantially simplified. Previously we
mimicked every LaTeX step with a pdfLaTeX equivalent, but now we simply
use ps2pdf to convert the final PostScript results to PDF at the end.
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Build support for brochures written in Western European languages.
One of our
example brochures is written in Italian, and we encourage translating
the Linux brochure to additional languages as well.
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Build includes a latex2html step to generate an html version of the brochure
language that is suitable for BabelFish translations. These rough
translations can serve as a starting point for a polished brochure
translation project.
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Build support for duplex printers that do not support the CUPS (Common Unix
Printing System) -o sides=two-sided-short-edge option.
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Thumbnails and screenshots are changed from png to jpeg which saves (in
this case) a factor of 10 in download size.
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Improved look to the brochure. Every mini-page is now vertically filled to
a uniform length, and the watermark now has enhanced visibility and improved
size/orientation.
We recommend an immediate upgrade to LBP-1.2.0.
