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=Introduction=
=Introduction=
Anyone is invited to describe hers/his experience with successfully using Scribus in hers/his projects. Please note: to report any unusual reasons you use Scribus join the ongoing discussion [[Stupid reasons we use Scribus]]. There is also a special page for placing links to your work: [[Made with Scribus]]. If you want to recommend a Scribus and/or PDF friendly print shop, please use [[Scribus Friendly Print Shops]].
Anyone is invited to describe her/his experience with successfully using Scribus in her/his projects. Please note: to report any unusual reasons you use Scribus join the ongoing discussion [[Stupid reasons we use Scribus]]. There is also a special page for placing links to your work: [[Made with Scribus]]. If you want to recommend a Scribus and/or PDF friendly print shop, please use [[Scribus Friendly Print Shops]].
 
=2009=
 
== Debian Conference 2008 Final Report ==
 
'''Reporter:'''  Margarita Manterola
 
'''Date:''' April, 2009
 
DebConf is the annual Debian Conference.  Each year, after the conference is over, a final report is produced.  In 2007 and 2006 this had been done with LaTeX, but for 2008 we decided that we wanted a sexier looking report, and took the leap of doing it with Scribus.  The results are awesome.  We are really happy with it.
 
The report can be downloaded from:
http://media.debconf.org/dc8/report/
 
[[Image:DebConf8FinalReport.png]]
 
== Campus Newsletter in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India ==
 
'''Reporter:''' Swift Arrow
 
'''Date:''' April, 2009
 
At my university, Lakshya, The association of Mechanical Engineers (of which I am a proud member), publishes a 4 page quarterly newsletter called Sanketika.  Since it's inception, it was done in Microsoft Publisher, using the default fonts (Calibri), embedded images, etc.  It wasn't bad, but it got better.  Over discussions on how to improve it, we outlined various points such as a shift to serif fonts, a `Lighter' look, etc.  Finally, over 24 hours, we sat down and did it.  In Scribus 1.3.3.12.  It was the first time I had ever used Scribus, but I found it pretty usable.  It was amazing to see it coming off the press.  Our latest edition had adverts showing off our conversion to FOSS, a screenshot of the Scribus loading window, and gave the scribus url for publicity.  We will be teaching it to our juniors next semester, and they will continue the legacy!
 
==PR department of Guardamar's Townhall (Spain) — various publications==
 
'''Reporter:'''  Markus W. Barth (via Scribus mailing list)
 
'''Date:''' February, 2009
 
The PR department of Guardamar's Townhall (Spain)
uses scribus for some of its publications. I you want to have a look at the
results, visit
http://www.guardamar.net/index.php/es/publicaciones-prensa/guardamar-amar
 
Thus, the townhall tries to contribute to spread the use of open source in
public administration. Right know, 1.3.3 is used for production, although we
are really looking forward to the 1.3.5 release because handling seems to be
a lot smoother. There is only one major drawback from the usability point of
view: accents do not work and we have to switch to the text editor for every
minor change in the texts which imho is just not acceptable for such an
excellent piece of software.
 
== Town magazine in Gometz le Châtel (5/year) ==
[[Image:Gometz207.jpg|right|thumb]]
 
We use Scribus for our town magazine. We use it since number 207 (June 2008). You can download the magazine at http://www.gometzlechatel.fr/w/index.php?title=Bulletin_municipal
 
The switch to Scribus has enabled us to save money and to make the magazine under Linux.
 
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=2008=
 
==Wissenschaffen und Handeln &mdash; 128-page book ==
 
'''Reporter:'''  Hans-Josef Heck
 
'''Date:''' December, 2008
 
[[Image:cover.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Front cover]]
 
Gardez! Verlag, 2008 - ISBN 978-3-89796-205-7 - 128 pages
 
http://www.wissenschaffen-und-handeln.de/
 
[http://www.wissenschaffen-und-handeln.de/herunterladen/buch-als-info.pdf Book sample]
 
 
 
==== Produced with Scribus 1.3.3.12, OpenOffice and Emacs: ====
 
As all my writing is to be presented on the internet, I developed a set of HTML-tags, which make my texts easy readable, using a lot of headlines, indents and fine tuned leadings: Taming the black.
 
I use six different stylesheets, for six different screen resolutions. This way, the letters on the screen have nearly always the same physical size.
 
Of course, to transfer the text to OpenOffice, you have to filter the HTML-tags, tag by tag, to give the tags a definite value. This is easily done by an Emacs-script for each tag, nearly all identical, using the tag-search-and-replace mechanism of Emacs, a very valuable piece of software for many instances. All files are processed at the same time by the chain of filters. So it doesn't take long, to bring it in the HTML-form, that OpenOffice can read and can take over the layout-formats. (If interested, have a look at www.fsub.org/wissen/itwissen/1wissen-index-itwissen.htm [http://fsub.schule.de/wissen/itwissen/1wissen-index-itwissen.htm].)
 
I read all the chapters into OpenOffice, so that the whole book became one file. And this file was read into Scribus, so that all paragraphs of a kind have the same style in scribus.
 
I used to treat the leadings as a paragraph of their own, which makes it much easier to control the wrapping of a page.
 
After page layout had been done, I adapted the page wrapping in the OpenOffice version. And I marked in this version all the words, that were to make up the index. So I generated the table of content and the index in OpenOffice. Comfortable and automatic.
 
==== Problems: ====
 
1. Sometimes paragraph styles took up other values, I don't know why.
 
2. Anoying: Changing from surface mode to edit mode and back, the marker went- nearly always - to the top of the file in edit mode. You had to scroll up to the line under construction again and again. A nuisance.
 
3. The biggest problem was to find information to a certain question. Scribus knowledge is scattered over many different media. This causes a waste of time,  much time. For those, who work with scribus day by day, this is probably no problem. But for us, who only use it as a novice and/or from time to time, we  have start from scratch. I already reported, but this doesn't seem to  be a problem for those, who could change it. I pointed out, that there are so many different media, reporting to the same topic. Of course, there is a very good handbook and I got a copy before it was published, which was really helpfull. But while reading it - and other sources - I would like to be able to contribute exactly to the text in question. And I would appreciate all information to a certain topic to be transfered to one and only one place. Which means, that the official server and the wiki server and ... are to be merged.
 
==== Very well: ====
 
The PDF-export: No problems - Acrobat Reader controlled - The print shop had no objection. The Gimp-produced cover, read into Scribus, exported as pdf. Worked also fine with the print shop.
 
==== Sorry: ====
 
As this project was finished three months ago, I don't remember every detail. But the support of the list was really helpfull.
 
==Various Datasheets, Company Brochures Etc ==
 
'''Reporter:''' Julian Robbins, Q-par Angus
 
'''Date:''' December, 2008
 
[[Image:Q-par1.png]]
 
[http://www.q-par.com/corporate/marketing/company-profile Company Profile]
 
Our company has approx 5 installs of Scribus on both Windows and linux platforms, we have been using Scribus for approximately 4 years now, with great results and few issues. The Exported PDF's especially have worked out great the times we have worked with printing firms and in magazine publications. Setting up Master pages allows me to maintain a inhouse style, but allow our engineers to work on the technical content. Most of our work with Scribus is few pages, but with a great variety of applications, ie creating simple jpgs for magazines that ask for them (!!), to full blown PDF's with CMYK of our full glossy company profile.
 
The lack of official support hasn't been a problem, as the mailing list is IMHO the best I have used for politeness, quick answers, getting real answers from the developers themselves, etc. Our main problem has always been with the use of Tables, which is really the worst of the features it has, but hopefully we can look forward to improvements soon.
 
==Podaj Dalej &mdash; 16-page student's magazine==
 
'''Reporter:''' Mariusz Słonina
 
'''Date:''' December, 2008
 
[[Image:podajdalej28_page01.jpg]]
 
'''Podaj Dalej''' is a student magazine printed in Torun, Poland, also fully available on the Internet (pdf's and html versions of articles). All design and layout is made in Scribus with help of Gimp, Inkscape (our logo) and Python (automated stuff). We have Drupal-powered website, and we are working on a complete workflow system, which includes Drupal and Scribus - because we want to publish our content not only in pdf's, but also in a web-version (which you can comment and vote on it; currently the content is included by hand on website) without having troubles with different text formats and to have more control on the workflow (revisions of articles etc.). Our authors use many different programs for creating and editing articles, but we prefer OpenDocument (our DTP-stuff works only on Linux machines).
Each issue is printed in about 1000 pcs edition. We have no problems with our printer - because of use pdf's with CMYK export.
 
'''Design & Layout'''
*fonts
**main text - URW Paladino (8.5pt)
**leads and intertitles - Trebuchet MS
**titles, authors, headers and footer - Aller
**others - QuasiSwissTTF
*layout
**two columns with semi-columns on margins
**place for author's notes and advertisements
*colour
**we have coloured cover (4 pages)
**and 12 - 16 black and white pages (depends on the issue)
 
We work on development version of Scribus:)
 
Inside of issue 28 (''The straggled''):
 
[[Image:Podajdalej28_page02.jpg]][[Image:Podajdalej28_page03.jpg]]
 
Our current design (pages 4-5):
 
[[Image:Podajdalej28_page04.jpg]][[Image:Podajdalej28_page05.jpg]]
 
'''Links'''
 
All articles and issues are available on our website:
 
[http://podaj-dalej.info Podaj Dalej website]
 
[http://podaj-dalej.info/czytelnia/numery,28 Issue 28]
 
[http://podaj-dalej.info/archiwum Archived issues]
 
Till 25.01.2008 (Issue 29: ''The city'') we will have new web-design, much more readable.
 
==The Official Scribus 1.3 Manual &mdash; 438-page book==
 
'''Reporter:''' Gregory Pittman, Christoph Schäfer (via Scribus mailing list)
 
'''Date:''' December, 2008
 
[http://www.scribus.net/?q=scribus_1.3_manual_book_sample Book sample] <br/>
[http://www.flesbooks.com Book orders]
 
'''Gregory:'''<br/>
''We had a host of people involved in the content, with Christoph and I doing much of it, as well as some rewriting and editing to try to have a reasonably consistent style for the book. Christoph took this and imported to openoffice.org, where styles were applied. The layout was then done in Scribus, and like we have advised so many times, 20-30 page PDFs were created (to be combined later), with import of text from ODT files with their styles. There was, of course, a large number of screenshots, and making sure these were of sufficient quality for a printed book. While we would have liked to have had some color, the cost was prohibitive. Meanwhile, all of this ODT work and final layout was done by Christoph (a gargantuan task), with Louis Desjardins and myself in charge of serial proofreadings of original content, again with ODT files, and yet again with PDFs.''
 
''In the end, I was quite pleased not just with the content, but the readability of the final work in comparison with many other software manuals I have read (or tried to read).''
 
'''Christoph:''' <br/>
''Our priority was to create a '''printed''' manual, as we felt this was one of the most requested "features". The whole setup of the manual project was for print, for a book that you can hold in your hands, read in the train etc. It has references, a glossary, an index, in other words: everything you expect from a real book. We also think that it can easily be read from the beginning to the end, while it can also be used as a reference manual, and our writing style has been chosen accordingly.''
 
==Homebrew Wind Power &mdash; 320-page technical book==
 
'''Reporter:''' Dan Fink (via Scribus mailing list)
 
'''Date:''' November, 2008
 
[http://www.amazon.com/Homebrew-Wind-Power-Dan-Bartmann/dp/0981920101/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220207443&sr=8-1 Book description on Amazon]
 
I just completed a 320-page, heavily-illustrated technical book using Scribus. I guess you could say my workflow was designed around Scribus.
 
Each chapter of 10-20 pages was a separate Scribus file. Within those chapters, re-arranging sections was easy &mdash; just a couple minutes of re-formatting using the master page templates if I had to insert or remove pages.
 
Then the final steps were:
* Assemble sections into final order in each chapter
* Assign page numbering to each chapter
* Build TOC and Index
* Generate press-ready PDF of each Chapter
* Assemble PDFs into one large PDF, using PDF Toolkit (or Acrobat)
 
Here is an article Dan has written on About.com:
 
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/findsoftware1/a/OpenSourceDTP.htm
 
==Libres de monopolios sobre el conocimiento y la vida (Taller en Costa Rica)==
Monopoly-free over life and knowledge - workshop in Costa Rica
 
*'''Reporter:''' Lila Pagola (proyecto nómade)
*'''Date:''' September 5, 2008
*'''Editor:''' Fundación Vía Libre [http://www.vialibre.org.ar]
*[http://www.nomade.org.ar/sitio/mabi2.pdf Download pdf 9mb - Texts under GFDL licence]
 
[[Image:Mabi2.jpg]]
 
 
130 pages book. Designed in Argentina and printed in Costa Rica with normal pre-press methods.
Book was designed in 5 separated chapters, around 30 pages each, merged with pdftk.
Cover design was made in Inkscape and Gimp. Color separation was made in Krita.
Scribus version used: 1.3.4 under Ubuntu.
 
[[Image:Page.png]]
 
==Stürenburg 2007 - Gesamtwerk==
 
 
'''Reporter:''' Werner Popken
 
'''Date:''' July 31, 2008
 
* [http://www.shaker-media.eu/de/Online-Gesamtkatalog/index.asp?ISBN=978-3-940459-15-2&ID=2 Stürenburg 2007 - Gesamtwerk]
is a 660 page art catalog plus essays, annotations and index, 796 pages in total, produced as hardcover in A4 full color, thread-stitching, published by [http://www.shaker-media.eu Shaker Media].
 
The catalog was produced in parts; the front pages, introduction and each essay, reasonable chunks of the annotations and the index as single sla-files each. From these, PDF-files werde produced separately as well.  


The 660-page catalog proper was produced as a PDF-file directly by a [http://www.php.net/ PHP]-program written by the author utilizing the [http://www.fpdf.org/ fpdf] library. The images are published online as well with different widths, the largest being 1600 pixels ([http://stuerenburg.com/joe Gallery]); they are printed from these to full size A4 with excellent results; landscape formats are rotated by [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick] to fit the paper at best. Text is added from a [http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL] database, a scheme shows the actual size with respect to a living room wall using a gif representing a dummy person and fpdf commands to draw the wall and work symbol. All this would have been next to impossible with Scribus alone.
=2011=


These separate PDF-files were then merged with [http://www.pdfsam.org/ pdfsam] to produce a single PDF-file (about 280 MB) for the printer. Due to the sheer size of the finished work (3,5 kg), hardcover and thread stitching seems appropriate and necessary.


Actually, the whole thing minus the annotations were produced on fpdf alone first and published by [http://www.lulu.com Lulu] after testing with a bunch of smaller projects: [http://stores.lulu.com/wernerpopken Werner Popken's Storefront]. The text and overall quality was disappointing, though, so Scribus and the German publisher came in here for the rescue, with excellent results. A [http://stuerenburg.com/pdf/Flyer2007.pdf flyer] for the product was produced with Scribus as well.
== Graduation catalogue of the PZI MA Networked Media ==
'''Reporter:''' OSP  


Software used: Scribus 1.3.3.10
'''Date:''' July 2011


==Was ist Kunst? Ein Blog 2006-2007==
[[File:P7012989cMichaelMurtaugh-small.jpg|thumb|200px]]


Design of the graduation flyer and catalogue of MA Networked Media of the [http://pzwart.wdka.nl Piet Zwart Institute], Rotterdam.
<gallery>
File:recto1.png|Flyer first half-recto [A6]
File:recto2.png|Flyer second half-recto [A6]
File:verso.png|Flyer verso [A5]
</gallery>


'''Reporter:''' Werner Popken
Bound with removeable black brads, the catalogue is composed of one stapled introduction booklet, followed by 6 leaflet/posters, one for each student. The purple poster ink seems to be absorbed by the red leaflet side. Each booklet and leaflet can be distributed individually.


'''Date:''' July 31, 2008
[[File:cat_31.jpg|thumb|200px]]


* [http://www.shaker-media.eu/de/Online-Gesamtkatalog/index.asp?ISBN=978-3-940459-16-9&ID=2 Was ist Kunst? Ein Blog 2006-2007 (A4)]
Purple shapes appearing behind the red text are the "overage" ink from the back side which is the poster side.
* [http://www.shaker-media.eu/de/Online-Gesamtkatalog/index.asp?ISBN=978-3-940459-33-6&ID=2 Was ist Kunst? Ein Blog 2006-2007 (B5)]
presents material originially published online as [http://stuerenburg.com/blog/ Art-Life-Creativity] on paper, the latter shrinked by the publisher and mostly black and white only, the former full color, 166 pages, softcover.


After the above mentioned catalogue, a blog was transformed into a book using Scribus much the same way as described: each chapter is produced separately, then joined with pdfsam.  
[[File:cat_4.jpg|thumb|200px]]


The typical html formatting was transferred by hand using templates and library elements; most chapters are illustrated by one or more images. This could have been done more or less automatically using fpdf from the original database source, as it uses pseudo code which is translated by a custom PHP library much like the well known BBcode to produce HTML. But unforunately there is no chance for hyphenation with any of these PDF-PHP libraries, so this approach didn't seem feasible. Hand coding with Scribus was no fun either and very error prone, but the final result is good.
We used public domain patent drawings to illustrate each project with a shift of humour.


The original size was A4 as dictated by the typical German office printer; color printing is more expensive, so the price of 28 EUR didn't seem right for the general market. Hence the editor suggested to produce a second edition geared at the typical market. To make things clear and understandable, the printer reduced the size from my PDF to 80% and used only 2 pages in color to arrive at a price of 14,80 EUR.
There are no software that can handle spot colors for pictures. So we used a [http://stdin.fr/Bazar/SpotColorImages python script] written by Simeon Voelkel which we got on the Scribus IRC channel to convert images to eps files and add the desired spot color in the header of the image. The original script was written for duotone colors, since we needed only monochrome colors, we fed the script with a blank image of the same size of the original image. Then, search & replace directly in the XML to change the spot colors. Result, the images are "baked", meaning we cannot change them anymore, if changes are to be made, you'd have to go from the previous tif or jpg version and re-apply the script.


The color pages are not illustrations but full size reproductions, used as separators, in contrast to the small sized images accompanying the text. A [http://stuerenburg.com/pdf/FlyerBlog.pdf flyer] for the product was produced with Scribus as well.
==German  Alpine Club (DAV), Local Section Ettlingen &mdash; periodical  magazine ==


Software used: Scribus 1.3.3.10
'''Reporter:''' Andreas Hünnebeck


==LinuxTrent Gazette==
'''Date:'''  December, 2011


The magazine is sent to all members of  the local section twice per year.
You can download the current magazine and older ones
[http://www.dav-ettlingen.de/index.php?id=22  here].


'''Reporter:''' Lorena Colme
I started to create this magazine in 1992, using different office programs on Windows and Linux.
Plagued by the increasing number of bugs in OpenOffice 3 I switched to Scribus in April 2010
(using 1.3.3.12 on Kubuntu 9.04). I wrote several python scripts to create the tables used in the
magazine. Scribus creates a ready to print PDF for the print shop and a WEB version PDF
for the homepage.


'''Date:''' May 16, 2008
In April 2011 I used Scribus 1.4.0.rc2 (on Kubunto 11.04) for Issue number 21 and in November 2011
I used Scribus 1.4.0.rc6 for issue number 22. (see
[http://www.dav-ettlingen.de/uploads/media/Mitteilungsheft_Nr._22_Dezember-2011.pdf  WEB version PDF]).


[[Image:LinuxTrent_200800.png|none|thumb|200px|Cover]]
==Book: Guide Sentinelle ==
'''Reporter:''' Cedric Gémy


'''Date:''' November 2011


LinuxTrent Gazette is a non-periodical publication of the [http://www.linuxtrent.it/ LinuxTrent]
http://www.cgemy.com/galerie/Scribus_fr-ExemplesDutilisation-resized_600x421_CGEMY_EetRBi.png
association (a group promoting free software in Trento, a city in the
north of Italy). The Gazette contains articles published by LinuxTrent
associates and supporters. The first two issues were published in 2006
and 2007 in conjunction with the LinuxDay (the yearly 1-day
celebration of GNU/Linux across Italy). The current issue, which has
been published on May 16th, 2008, celebrates the tenth year of the
association and is also presenting the Second Italian Conference on
Free Software.


Software used: Scribus 1.3.3.11
52 pages guide, page size A5, 2-color (black+pantone) made for a french association. The purpose of this guide is to give elements to people on how to protect water ressources in Brittany and how to act when they are witness of defaults.


==Faville nel Vento==
==CD: Les jetés de l'encore / Bologne==
'''Reporter:''' Gilles Maire


'''Date:''' August 2011   


'''Reporter:''' [mailto:gabriele.prandini@gmail.com Gabriele Prandini (mjfan80)]
[[File:IGNU-les_jetes_de_l_encre-bologne.jpg|800px]]


'''Date:''' February 24, 2008
For us, no question to make a CD without Open Source tools. The CD was recorded with  Ardour on a Linux station. We used Scribus for the CD cover and booklet. Photographer  Francois Michel and all the musicians Guerran Sellin, Alexandre Taveau, Survière Florès and Sieglfried Courteaux have played in Open Source.  It is a great pleasure to have used Scribus, because it is very user friendy and we have achieved a nice product for a small budget. The colors in CYMK are nicely printed.


[[Image:Copertina_800X554.jpg|none|thumb|200px|Cover]]
Each CD-burner company has its own format for templates and we made the cover and the booklet with a Open Source template found on the gallery. It was very simple to adapt it for the best price company.


This is a poetry book, printed with "print on demand" italian service [http://www.boopen.it Boopen]
The CD front was very easy to make following the CD form.
You can order this book on this page [http://boopen.it/acquista/DettaglioOpera.aspx?param=5348]


Software used: Scribus 1.3.3.11, Gimp 2.4.3
You can find the CD at http://www.lesjetesdelencre.com




Thank you Scribus !


==Flyer ''Stasi 2.0''==
== book: Guide de l'apiculteur ==
'''Reporter:''' Cedric Gémy


'''Reporter:''' [http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Benutzer:Mcmv200i mcmv200i]
'''Date:''' August 2011


'''Date:''' February 4, 2008, 3rd print run
http://www.cgemy.com/galerie/GuideAPiculteur-small.jpg


'''License:''' [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ CC-by]
96 pages guide, page size A5, 4-color made for a french institution. The purpose of to give beekeepers all the informations they need to produce honey as profitably as they can.


[[Image:2._Flyer-STASI20-Farbe-Anschnitt-Seite1.png]] [[Image:2._Flyer-STASI20-Farbe-Anschnitt-Seite2.png]]
==Nüüs vu Mullis==
[http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/Flyer-STASI20-Farbe-Anschnitt3mm.pdf PDF version]
'''Reporter:''' Niklaus Giger  


This is a flyer against surveillance in Germany. More information about this project can be found [http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Bild:Stasi_2.0_Flyer.zip here] (language: German, sorry).
'''Date:''' April 2011   


Other software used: GNU/Linux (Kubuntu), KDE, Inkscape, GIMP.
[[File:nueues_vu_mullis.jpg|800px]]


==Catalogue for a design graduation show==


'''Reporter:''' [http://ospublish.constantvzw.org OSP] (Femke Snelting)
Mollis, a small village (about 3'000 habitants) in the Swiss mountains, has a local tourist association which publishes since around 1965 a quarterly "Nüüs vu Mullis" magazine (News from Mollis). The first issue was written using a type writer using hectography. Since three years we use successfully Scribus for its layout. Two sample pages are found under http://ngiger.dyndns.org/vvm/nüüs_vu_mullis.pdf.


'''Date:''' July, 2008
Using Scribus allows us to incorporated a lot a invidual PDF files (advertisements, title page). The first two or three issues took much more time to layout, but since then we found an easy workflow which allows us to control every detail. This was a big improvement over the previous situation where a print shop did the layout and usually only corrected two out of three errors reported.


[[Image:difference.JPG|left|200px|Each spine has a different title]] [[Image:pixelated.JPG|none|200px|500 catalogs form an image]]
If anybody in the surroundings of Mollis would like to use Scribus for a similar magazine, we would be glad to offer some help.


== Choices Magazine==
'''Reporter:''' Lisa Charles   


176 pages, black and white, illustrations.
'''Date:''' February 2011     


With the help of a python script, the Scribus Scripter API generated 500 different covers based on creative interventions designed by participating students. When laid out next to each other, the final print run forms one giant pixelated image.


More information at: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/500-continued
[http://www.choicesmagazine.co.uk Choices Magazine] is a new UK glossy subscription only magazine for the employeepreneur, marketed via Direct Sales. Our main target market is employees making the transition to self employed, to business owner; with our secondary market being very early start-ups.  Our focus is on the next generation of industry leaders and entrepreneurs to nurture and build into successful brands. The big dreamers and forward thinkers; in particular, today’s self starter and tomorrow’s entrepreneur; the next gigantic global brand.  And for the serious entrepreneur; Choices Magazine provides a stream of income and a huge platform to develop and launch brands.  Our features, stories and articles (including success principles, practical projects, problem solving techniques and business strategies) give our readers the knowledge, skills and know how, to win.  We provide information to give them the edge, focus and necessary qualities to deliver their best, and to be a leader in their field. Choices incorporates information in four crucial areas necessary for a successful and balanced life: Business Choices, Lifestyle Choices, Wellbeing Choices, and Personal Growth Choices.


Commissioned by: [http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/ Media Design MA], Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
I used Scribus 1.3.9 to do the first pre launch issue (32 pages), which is available now, and have started working on the launch issue (64 pages), out at the end of March 2011. There was a slight learning curve, getting used to Scribus, but overall I think it's an excellent program. The proof we received from the printers was of excellent quality, putting my fears to rest that the pdf output would not be compatible for some reason (although Scribus do make clear that the commercial printing quality is superb!).


Printed at: Identic, Brussels (Belgium)
[[File:Choices Magazine full issue01.PNG|center]]


Software used: Scribus 1.3.3.12
==Wikipedia Bookshelf Project==
'''Reporter:''' Frédéric Schütz   


==CROSS-over: Kunst, media en technologie in Vlaanderen==
'''Date:''' January 2011     


'''Reporter:''' [http://ospublish.constantvzw.org OSP] (Femke Snelting)
The '''[http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project Wikipedia Bookshelf Project]''' is creating a core set of public outreach materials designed to help new contributors understand the specific culture of Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The materials aim to increase new contributor awareness and interest, foster excitement about contributing to Wikipedia, and provide key training tools. The materials are being developed in English; however, they are to be designed for easy translation, localization, and customization by volunteers, local chapters, and educational institutions such as schools and universities. Bookshelf materials are being developed by the project team from the Wikimedia Foundation (the Foundation that oversees the development of Wikipedia), community volunteers, and production experts.


'''Date:''' June, 2008
The combination of these requirements naturally led the project team to choose Scribus to create these materials. Scribus fits perfectly with the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and allows anyone to easily access the tools needed to contribute to the project. The resulting materials are also published under a free license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike], except for the Wikipedia and Wikimedia logos).


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The material produced so far can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf (note that the last two documents in the list of printed material were not created with Scribus; in particular, the project is currently looking for a volunteer who could convert the document ''Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web: A Guide to Best Practices for Cultural and Educational Institutions'', originally created using Adobe InDesign, in Scribus format).


Some of the Scribus files are already available at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_guidelines_(Bookshelf), in particular for the ''[http://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Welcome2WP_English_082310.pdf&page=1 Welcome to Wikipedia]'' booklet ([http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Welcome2WP_English_082310.pdf PDF], [http://www.process39.com/client_res/wikipedia/Welcome2WP_SOURCE_082410.zip ZIP files with Scribus source]).


224 pages, full-color, illustrations.
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CROSS-over is a collection of essays, interviews and info-sheets about art and artists crossing boundaries.
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Commissioned by: [http://www.bamart.be BAM] (Flemish centre for visual, audiovisual and media arts)
==The Rockfish Files==
'''Reporter:''' Keith White 


Published and printed by: [http://www.lannoocampus.be Lannoo Campus] (Belgium)
'''Date:''' January 2011   


Fonts used: [http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/309 NotCourier-Sans], Linux Libertine
This first issue of '''[http://issuu.com/jerseybassguides/docs/hrfw?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Faquarium%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true The Rockfish Files]''' was a collaborated effort, but edited and created solely with open source software.
Scribus v1.3.9 was used, and is being used in production of issue #2 to be released in march 2011.


Software used: Scribus 1.3.3.11, Gimp, Inkscape
A 60 plus page effort to show the world that British lure fishing can be more than just bass orientated. This document received over 5000 unique reads in the first 14 days of its release.

Latest revision as of 19:15, 18 October 2014

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2011

Graduation catalogue of the PZI MA Networked Media

Reporter: OSP

Date: July 2011

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Design of the graduation flyer and catalogue of MA Networked Media of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

Bound with removeable black brads, the catalogue is composed of one stapled introduction booklet, followed by 6 leaflet/posters, one for each student. The purple poster ink seems to be absorbed by the red leaflet side. Each booklet and leaflet can be distributed individually.

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Purple shapes appearing behind the red text are the "overage" ink from the back side which is the poster side.

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We used public domain patent drawings to illustrate each project with a shift of humour.

There are no software that can handle spot colors for pictures. So we used a python script written by Simeon Voelkel which we got on the Scribus IRC channel to convert images to eps files and add the desired spot color in the header of the image. The original script was written for duotone colors, since we needed only monochrome colors, we fed the script with a blank image of the same size of the original image. Then, search & replace directly in the XML to change the spot colors. Result, the images are "baked", meaning we cannot change them anymore, if changes are to be made, you'd have to go from the previous tif or jpg version and re-apply the script.

German Alpine Club (DAV), Local Section Ettlingen — periodical magazine

Reporter: Andreas Hünnebeck

Date: December, 2011

The magazine is sent to all members of the local section twice per year. You can download the current magazine and older ones here.

I started to create this magazine in 1992, using different office programs on Windows and Linux. Plagued by the increasing number of bugs in OpenOffice 3 I switched to Scribus in April 2010 (using 1.3.3.12 on Kubuntu 9.04). I wrote several python scripts to create the tables used in the magazine. Scribus creates a ready to print PDF for the print shop and a WEB version PDF for the homepage.

In April 2011 I used Scribus 1.4.0.rc2 (on Kubunto 11.04) for Issue number 21 and in November 2011 I used Scribus 1.4.0.rc6 for issue number 22. (see WEB version PDF).

Book: Guide Sentinelle

Reporter: Cedric Gémy

Date: November 2011

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52 pages guide, page size A5, 2-color (black+pantone) made for a french association. The purpose of this guide is to give elements to people on how to protect water ressources in Brittany and how to act when they are witness of defaults.

CD: Les jetés de l'encore / Bologne

Reporter: Gilles Maire

Date: August 2011

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For us, no question to make a CD without Open Source tools. The CD was recorded with Ardour on a Linux station. We used Scribus for the CD cover and booklet. Photographer Francois Michel and all the musicians Guerran Sellin, Alexandre Taveau, Survière Florès and Sieglfried Courteaux have played in Open Source. It is a great pleasure to have used Scribus, because it is very user friendy and we have achieved a nice product for a small budget. The colors in CYMK are nicely printed.

Each CD-burner company has its own format for templates and we made the cover and the booklet with a Open Source template found on the gallery. It was very simple to adapt it for the best price company.

The CD front was very easy to make following the CD form.

You can find the CD at http://www.lesjetesdelencre.com


Thank you Scribus !

book: Guide de l'apiculteur

Reporter: Cedric Gémy

Date: August 2011

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96 pages guide, page size A5, 4-color made for a french institution. The purpose of to give beekeepers all the informations they need to produce honey as profitably as they can.

Nüüs vu Mullis

Reporter: Niklaus Giger

Date: April 2011

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Mollis, a small village (about 3'000 habitants) in the Swiss mountains, has a local tourist association which publishes since around 1965 a quarterly "Nüüs vu Mullis" magazine (News from Mollis). The first issue was written using a type writer using hectography. Since three years we use successfully Scribus for its layout. Two sample pages are found under http://ngiger.dyndns.org/vvm/nüüs_vu_mullis.pdf.

Using Scribus allows us to incorporated a lot a invidual PDF files (advertisements, title page). The first two or three issues took much more time to layout, but since then we found an easy workflow which allows us to control every detail. This was a big improvement over the previous situation where a print shop did the layout and usually only corrected two out of three errors reported.

If anybody in the surroundings of Mollis would like to use Scribus for a similar magazine, we would be glad to offer some help.

Choices Magazine

Reporter: Lisa Charles

Date: February 2011


Choices Magazine is a new UK glossy subscription only magazine for the employeepreneur, marketed via Direct Sales. Our main target market is employees making the transition to self employed, to business owner; with our secondary market being very early start-ups. Our focus is on the next generation of industry leaders and entrepreneurs to nurture and build into successful brands. The big dreamers and forward thinkers; in particular, today’s self starter and tomorrow’s entrepreneur; the next gigantic global brand. And for the serious entrepreneur; Choices Magazine provides a stream of income and a huge platform to develop and launch brands. Our features, stories and articles (including success principles, practical projects, problem solving techniques and business strategies) give our readers the knowledge, skills and know how, to win. We provide information to give them the edge, focus and necessary qualities to deliver their best, and to be a leader in their field. Choices incorporates information in four crucial areas necessary for a successful and balanced life: Business Choices, Lifestyle Choices, Wellbeing Choices, and Personal Growth Choices.

I used Scribus 1.3.9 to do the first pre launch issue (32 pages), which is available now, and have started working on the launch issue (64 pages), out at the end of March 2011. There was a slight learning curve, getting used to Scribus, but overall I think it's an excellent program. The proof we received from the printers was of excellent quality, putting my fears to rest that the pdf output would not be compatible for some reason (although Scribus do make clear that the commercial printing quality is superb!).

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Wikipedia Bookshelf Project

Reporter: Frédéric Schütz

Date: January 2011

The Wikipedia Bookshelf Project is creating a core set of public outreach materials designed to help new contributors understand the specific culture of Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The materials aim to increase new contributor awareness and interest, foster excitement about contributing to Wikipedia, and provide key training tools. The materials are being developed in English; however, they are to be designed for easy translation, localization, and customization by volunteers, local chapters, and educational institutions such as schools and universities. Bookshelf materials are being developed by the project team from the Wikimedia Foundation (the Foundation that oversees the development of Wikipedia), community volunteers, and production experts.

The combination of these requirements naturally led the project team to choose Scribus to create these materials. Scribus fits perfectly with the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation, and allows anyone to easily access the tools needed to contribute to the project. The resulting materials are also published under a free license (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike, except for the Wikipedia and Wikimedia logos).

The material produced so far can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf (note that the last two documents in the list of printed material were not created with Scribus; in particular, the project is currently looking for a volunteer who could convert the document Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web: A Guide to Best Practices for Cultural and Educational Institutions, originally created using Adobe InDesign, in Scribus format).

Some of the Scribus files are already available at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_guidelines_(Bookshelf), in particular for the Welcome to Wikipedia booklet (PDF, ZIP files with Scribus source).

Welcome2WP English 082310-thumbnails.jpg

Welcome2WP French printed1.jpg Welcome2WP French printed2.jpg Welcome2WP French printed3.jpg

The Rockfish Files

Reporter: Keith White

Date: January 2011

This first issue of The Rockfish Files was a collaborated effort, but edited and created solely with open source software. Scribus v1.3.9 was used, and is being used in production of issue #2 to be released in march 2011.

A 60 plus page effort to show the world that British lure fishing can be more than just bass orientated. This document received over 5000 unique reads in the first 14 days of its release.