Laidout

LGM and Repo madness

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:29:58 -0700

This year, the Libre Graphics Meeting is again in Nuremberg April 22-25, and I will be there to give a talk about imposition and bookbinding.

Assuming I can actually finish implementing some new imposition features, my talk will show the new pamphelt folding impositions, and being able to use so-called art board paper layouts, like Inkscape can do now. I will also do an overview of non-Laidout, imposition methods that are open source, ranging from command line to online.

Laidout, not quite dead yet!

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:03:01 -0700

Behold the new Laidout website! Which looks a lot like the old website! But now it’s made with Hugo and hosted on Gitlab.

A few months ago, I went to the fabulous Libre Graphics Meeting, and left feeling inspired a bit to make some long overdue updates to Laidout. While development has been rather slow due to my time being taken up by working on Godot based projects, hiking a lot, and generally trying to pay bills, there are a couple of new things to report.

Way back when...

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:00:00 -0700

This post was not actually written in 2006, however it does commemorate when the very first version of Laidout was released, Version 0.01 on 12 March 2006! How on earth have I gotten so old?! I had actually been sketching out and slowly coding this since 2004, but it took a couple years to finally have a basically “stable” version. My todo list has never gotten smaller!