The Scribus mailinglist is a good place to start when you want to find out about printing, PDF, typography, color management and everything else related to open source publishing. Developers and other users discuss solutions to problems, but also give background information on why certain technical constraints exist, what licensing …
"instable", mais actuellement utilisée
The French weekly Le Tigre announces:This week, we have an article about free softwares in "Le Tigre":
http://www.le-tigre.net/No11.html
There is a "encadré" about Scribus. You can see it there:
http://rdereel.free.fr/letigre/011/scribus.jpg
The Tomorrow Book / Printing Party 0.1
Production
line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing
and binding of The Continuous PresentOn May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into …
It is in the air
Reporting bugs is frustrating work. I feel pretty stupid when a bug apparently was already reported months ago (was it worth reporting? Am I simply annoying developers by telling them once again something does not work? Should I have spent even more time finding duplicates?), but at the same time …
Stylesheets
Often I have wondered why DTP programmes did not have both an "edit source" view and a "preview mode", so that you could alternate between those two views and apply styles with more rigour if needed.
You can see why I am so excited about using the Story Editor in …Tigrrrrrrrrrrre!!!
Le Tigre, here, is not the translation of a Mac os in french, nor a No-Wave grrrrl band. It's a brand new generalist weekly french magazine that released its first issue 3 days ago. The big thing here is that this mag is entirely set on Scribus, and proove by …
A double spread in scribus
Thanks to Philip May and Perl5 software that generated text, it was possible to realise a double spread of a "Babels book". Text is composed of the combinatory of the 26 letters of the alphabet, dot, comma and space, as described in Library of Babel, in Fictions Borges book. Those …
freestyle, lecture on scribus
Lecture at Freestyle - FLOSS In Design, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam
During my 6 year freelance graphic design practice and 4 years study I gradually became aware of working methods in the general sense. In every aspect of my practice working structures developed, some are critically looked at, some are educated …
Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz
Instead of using the usual The Quick Brown Fox jumped over the lazy dog, this rather absurd text is set as default in Scribus Font Preview:
I wonder who decided to use this particular sentence, and why?
Alternative pangrams to choose from: http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/pangrams.htm …Scribus Bug Reporting
New addiction: reading through the thousands of bug-reports on the rigourously precise Scribus bugtracking system.
http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.phpIt is somehow consoling to see those thousands of minor and major problems scroll by. We will be adding our own reports over the coming weeks (see below).
- Looks …
