Category Archives: Design

Google font API makes embedded web fonts easy, were it not for a bug

Website for NUH Trust. Framework allows staff to load and edit content easily.

We’ve just been updating the design of one of our client’s sites and, as ever, fonts are a focus. Earlier this year, Google released a set of beautiful typefaces for use in web environments. It’s a simple matter of calling the font library from Google via a stylesheet header. Unless your choice includes Droid Bold. [...]

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Print large pdfs over multiple pages easily in Linux with pdfposter

pdfposter-eng-drawing

Engineering and architectural drawings come in colossal sizes and most design offices have large plotters or roll printers to let them push out paper copies with ease. We have a printer that will take A3 rolls but since use is fairly sparse, I needed a way to expand a strangely sized pdf across multiple A3 [...]

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