{"id":1720,"date":"2020-12-22T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/femprocomuns.coop\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T10:51:38","slug":"pliegomaker-at-the-atypi-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/femprocomuns.coop\/en\/pliegomaker-at-the-atypi-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"PliegO’Maker at the ATypI congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual congress of the International Typography Association<\/a> (ATypI), was called ATypI All Over as this year it wasn’t held in a specific place but online. It was the 64th edition (yes!) of the congress of this association, created in 1957 by the typographer Charles Peignot. The PliegOS.net<\/a> team was present with a communication on the state of development of PliegO’Maker” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>PliegO’Maker<\/a> and on the concepts behind this tool, as well as on rescuing the literature of cane and string in the computer age. <\/p>\n

For some time now, the PliegOS.net team has been contributing to femProcomuns Teixidora GAC<\/a> and, especially since the confinement of March 2020, we have given a boost to the PliegO’maker and are jointly seeking resources and collaborations to follow its development. <\/p>\n

PliegOS.net is an initiative that promotes desktop publishing in a simple format, with paper printed on both sides and a specific layout so that when folded it forms a booklet. The initiative was launched in 2011 and has promoted the format in different areas. Marc Antoni Malagarriga (femFum<\/a>) incorporation to the team, with his experience in Postscript programming and his passion for editorial layout, led to the idea and development of a programme that, integrating knowledge of the typographic tradition, assists the desktop self-publisher in the layout of booklets by extracting content from different sources. <\/p>\n

PliegO’Maker is a tool written in Postscript that executes several algorithms to extract graphic and text content from the fonts indicated, to layout it by imposing pages on a single double-sided sheet in PDF format ready to distribute, print and fold. <\/p>\n

Structurally, for automatic layout, it is based on what are called “harmonic layouts”; a series of diagramming structures that come from the classic tradition <\/p>\n

(Honnecourt<\/a>, Van DeGraaf<\/a>, etc), like those applied to the Bible printed by Gutenberg<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To this end, some of the research carried out by Dr. Bego\u00f1a Sim\u00f3n, contained in the book “Cuadernos de arquitectura gr\u00e1fica<\/a>“, compiled by Professor Oriol Moret of the University of Barcelona, is applied. <\/p>\n

Conceptually, the fpliegO’Maker also refers to the manifesto The New Art of Making Books<\/a>. Written at the end of the seventies by the Mexican performer and artist, established in Holland, Ulises Carri\u00f3n<\/a>, it introduces a series of algorithmic concepts with a new look at the concept of what a book is. He invites us to understand it as a sequence of spaces and times, to place greater emphasis on the whites and silences, and to consider a book that is not being made by the author but by the reader.<\/p>\n

PliegO’Maker is developed as a free software in a Git repository <\/a> and uses the also free interpreter Ghostscript<\/a>. Currently, an important part of the functionalities are already developed but some aspects are yet to be solved. Contributions and collaborations are welcome. <\/p>\n

Watch the video of the presentation at the conference (in Catalan with English subtitles).<\/p>\n