Open Source DTP Resources

Open Source DTP

• A Scribus Forum in German

An unofficial, but active forum on Scribus in German. Die deutschsprachige Scribus-Community

• Beginning Python

A Beginner's Guide to Python .

• Gimp Savvy, Grokking the GIMP

This is an on-line version of Grokking the GIMP, an excellent tutorial on GIMP.

• Graphics Muse

The Graphics Muse Site, after being dormant for almost 2 years has been revived and has daily news feeds and links to many Linux graphics sites. There also a number of Gimp tutorials as well.

• Linux & Graphics Website

This is a superb Linux graphics site with downloadable PDF's on everything Linux and Graphics (mostly in French). Forum sur Scribus en francais.

• Linux Artist

Linuxartist.org has news and articles on 2d and 3D for Linux, as well as some tutorials.

• linux open-graphics

cglinux open-source computer-graphics under linux community.

• Metric Typographic Units

An excellent set of notes on typography measurements.

• Potrace - Bitmap to Vector Converter

Potrace can convert and clean up scanned bitmaps into smooth and scalable vector images as EPS or SVG.