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Volume 107 December, 2015 HHaappppyy HHoolliiddaayyss 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: What Programming Meemaw's Picks Language? 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: The Chimpbox: YouCanToo's Picks A Review 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: Game Zone: Stick 'Em parnote's Picks Up 2: Paper Adventures PCLinuxOS Family Member Inkscape Tutorial: Another Spotlight: bkstan Fun Text Effect Inkscape Tutorial: Creating Tip Top Tips: Running A Jigsaw Puzzle Using The Multiple Logitech Devices Lasercut Extension And more inside ... From One USB Receiver PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 1 Table Of Contents 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 4 Inkscape Tutorial: Another Fun Text Effect The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 5 Screenshot Showcase Texstar. 6 The ChimpBox: A Review The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication containing PCLinuxOS-related materials. It is published 7 Screenshot Showcase primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the 8 ms_meme's Nook: No Place Like The Forum PCLinuxOS community. 9 PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Tofu Parmigiana Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 10 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: parnote's Picks This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 13 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: Meemaw's Picks Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) Assistant Editor: Meemaw 15 Screenshot Showcase Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth, ms_meme, Meemaw Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme 16 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: YouCanToo's Picks HTML Layout: YouCanToo 19 PCLinuxOS Friends & Family Member Spotlight: bkstan Staff: ms_meme loudog 20 ms_meme's Holiday Poems Meemaw YouCanToo Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. Pete Kelly 22 Which Programming Language? Daniel Meiß-Wilhelm Antonis Komis daiashi Patrick Horneker 23 Screenshot Showcase Smileeb 26 Inkscape Tutorial: Creating A Jigsaw Puzzle Contributors: Using The Lasercut Extension tuxlink 27 Screenshot Showcase 28 Tip Top Tips: The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Running Multiple Logitech Devices From One USB Receiver Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license. Some rights are reserved. 29 Game Zone: Stick 'Em Up 2: Paper Adventures Copyright © 2014. 30 Screenshot Showcase 31 PCLinuxOS Puzzled Partitions 34 More Screenshot Showcase PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 2 Welcome From The Chief Editor I recently went deer hunting. As I was sitting in the that dominates the computer landscape. Many tree stand, it was hard to not notice the deafening thanks to Texstar and his small group of packagers silence. 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The PCLinuxOS Magazine accepts no responsibility for the In a way, it all also reminds freedom. content, accuracy, conformity to applicable laws of such material. me of what it’s like to use PCLinuxOS. With it, we’re During this holiday Entire Agreement able to free ourselves from season, I wish for each of These terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all the everyday hassles that go you happiness, peace, prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or along with using that “other” serenity and prosperity. oral, regarding such subject matter. commercial operating system Me, sitting in the tree stand. PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 3 Inkscape Tutorial: Another Fun Text Effect By Meemaw Once you change it to a path, you can always go in and move the nodes around to get the shape you want. It has to be four-sided, but the four sides can I was talking to ms_meme the other day about ways be any way you want. If you want a banner shape to manipulate text in Inkscape, and one of the (or any other four-sided shape), just move the nodes extensions we discussed was the Envelope until you are satisfied with the result. The text will extension. Envelope is an extension that will “mold” align with the rectangle along the first and fourth text to a rectangular shape. Let’s do one! lines, with the top of the word being against the first line and the left side of the first letter being against Start with the bezier tool and draw a rectangle. You the fourth line. When you move your nodes, keep have to make it a rectangle for the extension to this in mind. work. If you want a triangle, you can draw a 4-sided figure that looks kind of like a triangle with one point Now for the text. Type and configure it, changing the After your text is changed, you can use or delete the cut off, as shown below. font, size, etc., however you want. With your text shape, whatever you need to do for your drawing. selected, click on Path > Object to path. At this point, your text is a group of paths, with each letter being its own path. Ungroup your text, which will then look like this: then click on Path > Combine and combine the text Some of these extensions are picky about how you into one path. draw them. Envelope requires the figure to be drawn in this order: top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left, and close. Change your rectangle to a path by clicking Path > Object to path. It’s a fun process! With a little experimentation, you Envelope works with only two paths. If you don’t can get all sorts of effects. perform the above step, you will get an error message that says you have to have only two paths. Choose the word, (hold down <Shift>) and choose the shape, and then go to Extensions > Modify Path > Envelope (top, right). PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 4 Inkscape Tutorial: Another Fun Text Effect ms_meme got this (which looks kind of like a tree): DOWNLOAD linuxfordummies.org There Are No Stupid Questions Mate Desktop SSccrreeeennsshhoott SShhoowwccaassee This one’s fun! I hope you have fun with it as well. It's easier than E=mc2 It's elemental It's light years ahead It's a wise choice Posted by Agent Smith, November 6, 2015, running Trinity. It's Radically Simple It's ... PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 5 The ChimpBox: A Review by Michael Duffy (tuxlink) Upon opening the box it arrived in, I am shocked at hours using it, it had barely even become warm to how small the ChimpBox enclosure is! It is 8 ¼” X 7 my hand.