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Why design the open source way?

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Pandoc

Pandoc is a software tool that allows you to convert various text markup files. It supports (among other) .pdf, .docs, and .odt. It offers a detailed guide with instructions for you to follow for installation and use.

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When you create a piece of software, itin most countries it's automatically protected by copyright. This means that you retain all rights to your source code work are protected by copright, and nobody else may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work without permission from the copyright holder.

It may also lead to no one using your code, which defeats This disables others from using your work, and may lead to nobody using your work, which may defeat the purpose of sharing it. So, if If you want to share your work, but also want to protect it in some way, retain some degree of control, then it's important to know and consider the licensing options available for your workchoose a suitable license which grants certain rights but not others.

Creative

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Commons Licenses

The Creative Commons is a movement that was started family of licenses first created by Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig to encourage creative people to offer up their creative works – protected by copyright law – for others to legally build upon and share, including text, music, pictures, and video.

Creative Commons licenses are standardised, easy-to-understand, copyright licenses that which allow creators of content to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive give away for the benefit of other usersothers. Creative Commons licenses don't replace copyright, but they do mean that build upon, rather than replace, copyright. They mean you don't have to negotiate individually over specific rights for pieces of contentworks you produce, and have been tested in court. Crucially, the license was licenses were designed specifically to work with over the internet, so that content that is offered under the terms of the Creative Commons is easy to search for, discover, and use. Around 500 million works have been licensed under Creative Commons since it launched.

Creative Commons is not an appropriate license for software code. It is a better fit for creative assets (like images or and audio) used in software projects. If you are still not 100 percent sure which license you want to use, you can use the . The Creative Commons tool provides convenient advice on which Creative Commons license to choose.

There are several types of Creative Commons Licenses such as:

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For content (including graphics, video, audio, and similar creative assets) we use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. That ensures openIMIS assets can be remixed by other users and creators, yet openIMIS is credited and work that is based on our assets need to have the same license (so that others may benefit from the same freedoms in future).

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There are lots of tools available to create visual assets (graphics) for any need. While the current industry standard is Adobe Creative Cloud, we try to keep proprietary software to a minimum. When this was not possible or difficult, the minimum we aim for open formats. In the following, we will go through recommended tools, the various file formats they support, and limitations they pose in different conversion settings.

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GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks. GIMP can be used for opening and changing many types of file formats. GIMP is released under GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. It further offers a Wiki page where it gives explanations and detailed information as to how to use and understand the product.

GIMP is the first alternative software to Adobe Photoshop, recommended for creation of raster graphics for the openIMIS project. It outputs open format files, it's extensible, flexible, and easy to use. The latest version of GIMP provides several new features with an easier-to-use UIuser interface. GIMP can also open and work with PSD (Adobe Photoshop files), but with a reduced feature set and less-than-ideal end results. GIMP may not preserve all text information or layer styles but if you have no access to Photoshop it might be a good enough solution. We recommend outputting to XCF (GIMP files) so they can be shared and reused easily in the future.

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Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor. This multi-platform application can be used to create or and edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos, icons, and complex paintings. Inkscape's primary vector graphics format is the open format Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG); however, many other formats can be imported and exported. It is licensed under the General Public License (GPL).

Inkscape is an open alternative to Adobe Illustrator and recommend for creation of vector graphics for the openIMIS project. It can output SVG files and PNG raster graphics. The interface is friendly and not bloated with features: Almost relatively self-explanatory; almost everything is accessible from a single drop-down menu or icon.

This is going to be the software that openIMIS will use the most to create digital assets, as its a well-supported project and the current version is stable. While there is plenty of other proprietary and/or Open Source software that can create SVGs (including Adobe Illustrator), Inkscape is the one that we recommend. Try it, and start building up some knowledge and experience around the software. If it’s not a suitable option for your needs, Adobe Illustrator can still be used, but keep in mind that output should only be in the SVG format.

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LibreOffice Draw is a free and open source vector graphics editor. Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan and gives you the means to communicate with graphics or diagrams, flowcharts and even technical drawings.It supports open formats that allow you to use documents from other programs so you don't have to isolate yourself or your workflow into a LibreOffice world.LibreOffice Draw uses Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) (.odg graphics extension) as its default output format as an international standard file format.

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Diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) is an open source online platform created to help you design flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER diagrams, network diagrams and much more. You can create your own custom shape libraries or use their large collection of shape libraries which offer hundreds of visual elements, making it plain and easy working with metadata to pack more useful information into your diagrams. With numerous shape libraries offering hundreds of visual elements, Diagrams.net covers every use case you can think of for creating diagrams by embedding them within Atlassian Confluence and Jira software.

Draw.io lets you import and export files into open formats such as .svg, .png, .jpeg, .pdf, and .xml.

We recommend using diagrams.net together with its native Confluence integration. Especially in situations where you might be unable to install software on your device. It can be used from the web browser and store files on the cloud or your device. While designed as a flowchart and diagrams application, it can also replace the need for a vector editor as Inkscape, especially for basic communication design tasks.

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Open formats are not exclusive to design. Text documents are a crucial part of openIMIS work processes and are often required to be compatible with design tools. These formats often overlap, but and we will go through the most important types of document formats, which cam can impact the design. While these formats are often overlapping, we will go through cover the primary types of documents that often have an impact on how design processes are too.

LibreOffice Writer

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