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* For native Debian/Ubuntu packages, please see [http://debian.scribus.net/ Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux and derivatives]  
* For native Debian/Ubuntu packages, please see [http://debian.scribus.net/ Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux and derivatives]  
** check out [[Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux]] for making suggestions to the page
** check out [[Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux]] for making suggestions to the page
* For native Windows version, please see [[Win32 version of Scribus]].
* For native Windows version, please see [http://windows.scribus.net http://windows.scribus.net ].
* For native Mac OS X version, please see [[MacOSX version of Scribus]].
* For native Mac OS X version, please see [[MacOSX version of Scribus]].



Revision as of 17:51, 17 April 2006

Other languages: Polski (pl)

Scribus Sites

Scribus Web Site Link Collection - 100 Plus Links for Scribus and Page Layout

  • You can check this before making more link suggestions, as they may already be there.

Official

Packages

Unofficial

Articles

See Press news about Scribus section for various news and articles on Scribus, including reviews and interviews with developers.

See Scribus UI Analysis for whitepapers on the user interface (UI) analysis of Scribus.

DTP Sites

DTP on Linux

DTP resources

  • DTP Principles guide (online book page) - 20 page booklet in PDF format for free
  • About.com - About.com's DTP site. Truckloads of informations on almost all aspects of DTP; also useful to learn about interesting features from other apps that deserve a smarter implementation in FOSS.

Fonts, fonts, fonts...

Download resources

Important note from Mrdocs (maintainer of the Scribus official documentation)
Any bug reports with free fonts or issues with Scribus using free fonts will be looked at very skeptically. There are extensive warnings and notes why this can be an issue in the main docs about using free fonts because of quality/correctness issues. --Mrdocs 22:05, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)



  • DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines [1]) compliant free fonts


See also Right font 4 right purpose and Where can I get good fonts?
For Unicode fonts, check out the Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems.

Typography

Font Management

Font identification

  • What The Font?! - Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest font matches in their database
  • WTF Guru Forum - Submit your scanned font to them, if the abovementioned website cannot help

Printing

Tools

PDF

  • pdftk – PDF Tool Collection (merge, split, encrypt, decrypt, repair, etc.)
  • PDFjam – shell scripts to impose, concatenate and rotate PDFs

Hardware tuning for DTP

Monitor