+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html">Change the font, save the world (and save some money in the process)</a></div>
+ <div class="date">26th March 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same
+time, without much sacrifice? A small step could be to change the
+font you use when printing.</p>
+
+<p>Three years ago,
+<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/">Arts
+Technica</a> reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
+changed their default front from
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial</a> to
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic">Century
+Gothic</a> to save money. The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner
+than Arial to print the same text. In other word, you could cut your
+toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time
+by 30%, by simply changing the default font used in your prints.</p>
+
+<p>But it is not quite obvious how much one will safe by switching.
+The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
+on ink and toner cartridges, according to
+<a href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097">a report from
+TwinCities.com</a>, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000
+per year by asking staff and students to use a different font. Not
+all PDFs and documents are created internally, and those from external
+sources will most likely still use a different font. Also, the
+Century Gothic font is slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use
+more sheets of paper to print the same text, so the total saving
+depend on the documents printed.</p>
+
+<p>But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce
+the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world
+and save some money in the process.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html">Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</a></div>
<div class="date">24th March 2013</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikart___Free_Garmin_maps_for_European_countries_based_on_OpenStreetmap.html">Frikart - Free Garmin maps for European countries based on OpenStreetmap</a></div>
- <div class="date">15th February 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>If you, like me, want an updated a map for your Garmin GPS, there is
-now a great source of free maps available from
-<a href="http://www.frikart.no/garmin/index.html">Frikart</a>. To
-download a map, just click on the country you are interested in, and
-download the map type you want. There are 8 different maps available,
-using different colours and data selection. Pick one of Roadmap, Topo
-Summer, Topo Winter, Roadmap II, Topo Summer II, Topo Winter II,
-"Trails - overlay map" and "Cross country - overlay map" (see the web
-page for descriptions).</p>
-
-<p>The maps are updated weekly, so if you find something wrong in the
-map you can just edit the
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> map source
-(anyone can contribute) and fetch a fixed map a week later. :)</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>.
-
-
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