Success Stories 2011

=Introduction= 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.

=2010=

Naji Gòchë, a social and culture magazine in Polish and Kashubian language
Reporter: cezaryece

Date: March, 2010

Home Page Issue 42, Winter 2010 (PDF)

Previously magazine was done in Corel Ventura 8, but due to hyphenation problems we decide to leave it and last issue (Winter 2010) was made with Scribus 1.5 (from SVN) without major problems. It has 155 pages full of text and photos. It was not printed (only for electronic distribution) due to low founds, but in the near future we plan to go back to paper issue.

Moje miasto, a biweekly magazine in Polish language
Reporter: cezaryece

Date: March, 2010

Home page

Issue 18/2010

Local biweekly newspaper made in Scribus till December 2009 (before in Corel Ventura 8). Printing to paper in printing house from PDF files without any problems. It has half number full color and half number black-white pages (mainly 16 pages issue, sometimes 24 pages). Started with Scribus 1.5 SVN, but now it is made in Scribus 1.3.8 due to performance in text editing. Advertisements are made outside in CorelDRAW (as JPG files), text files arrive in Word format and are converted by Open Office with some cleanup. Sudoku is made in Inkscape as EPS file. Big advantage migrating to Scribus is Short Words plugin - Ventura has not this feature at all.

AllYearbooks 2010 Information Pack
Reporter: Jake Gordon

Date: February, 2010

AllYearbooks is a leading yearbook producer in the UK. We had been weighing up InDesign vs Scribus for some time but with version 1.3.6 Scribus really took the lead for us. We created this information pack (marketing material) entirely in house. We used Scribus 1.3.6svn as it included important features and bug fixes which we required.



Our information pack is 48 pages long, and as we needed to create it as quick as possible we created 5 smaller files with up to 10 pages each, rather than working with one big file. This enabled two of us to work on the pack concurrently, connecting to a Samba share over 1Gbps ethernet.

After sending the document to be printed in both paperback and laminated hardback forms, I used the 'import page' feature to collate the five files into one, to make future revisions more logical.

You can find also download the PDF of the information pack, which was exported using Scribus' PDF export tool with all images compressed to a maximum of 72dpi.