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 …
Articles in the tools category 
DTPblender
A new kid on the block? Makers of 3D-modeling software Blender announce that they have developed a "solution for fast and flexible creation of 2D graphics and layouts for web site design and print". Its interface -no surprise - resembles Blender and other proprietary animation packages such as Flash; the website …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 …LaTeX Project
From WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
by Florian Cramer
(p22)The idea that beauty materializes in numerical proportions according to mathematical laws continues to be popular in scientific and engineering cultures, too. Since the early 1970s, Donald Knuth, widely considered the founder of computer science as an independent academic …
Don't keep it to yourself!
http://www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts/
(c) 2001 http://www.orgdot.com: you can copy, use, modify and distribute this code and/or artwork for educational, commercial or recreational use.
All we ask is that you include this copyright notice in the material you distribute. for compiled code, you will need …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 …
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 …
« Page 5 / 5