Just out and
hopefully in the post soon: The Official Scribus Manual! For less than
30 euros, we ordered ourselves 438 pages of printed documentation,
examples and other invaluable info. And at least €12 from each copy goes
towards the Scribus project.
Get yours here:
http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1 …
At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was …
Our
favourite killer-app Scribus is competing to be included in
Hackontest, a "24 hour programming competition
between teams of three open source software projects".
A container designed by
E-Toy.corporation will house
the competition, which takes place at the Google sponsored
OpenExpo (the Swiss conference and trade
show for Free …
A lively discussion about the terminology used in Scribus:
http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-May/028994.html
All started with this post from Hans-Josef Heck, linking the language of digital lay-out to that of historical printing techniques:
"Master" is the perfect English term. The master masters a page, a …
With * new * OSP Yi Jiang we are currently working on typography and lay-out for CROSS-over: Kunst, Media en Design in Vlaanderen, a publication edited by Liesbeth Huybrechts and published by BAM / Lannoo.
The book is layed-out in Scribus and contains various database visualisations generated in Inkscape (in collaboration with Michael …
Scribus is included in this year's Google Summer of Code and now
looking for contributions in the form of proposals and feedback to
already formulated ideas:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Ideas
Scribus is also actively looking for student applications:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Example_proposal
From the …
Besides pagenumbers, Scribus masterpages can currently only hold static elements. Ivan Monroy Lopez wrote us a very handy python script which puts as many linked or unlinked text boxes on as many pages you want. You can also run the script multiple times...
The script is …
One of our Rotterdam reporters made us notice Inconsolata, a monospaced font designed by Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. Levien offers an OTF version, plus 'raw' fontforge files on his webpage.
First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's …
Over the last few months, the OSP and Mute team have established a new design and production workflow for Mute magazine, using Open Source tools. Below are a few of the questions we are encountering during the last stages of this process.
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Mute 2 6 – Questions and answers
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Storing images …
