Scribus Links

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Scribus Sites

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

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Official

• http://www.scribus.net - Official Scribus website
• http://bugs.scribus.net - Scribus bug & feature request submission website
• http://docs.scribus.net - Scribus documentation site
• http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus - Scribus mailing list
• http://rants.scribus.net/ - The Scribus Developer's blog

Packages

• For native Debian/Ubuntu packages, please see Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux and derivatives
  • check out Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux for making suggestions to the page
• For native Windows version, please see Win32 version of Scribus (or windows.scribus.net).
• For native Mac OS X version, please see MacOSX version of Scribus.

Unofficial

• http://search.srem.org/ – Search engine for the Scribus mailing list
• A short Scribus PDF manual by Scot Blades, with PDF and SLA source materials available

Support in German

• http://www.pl-forum.de/berichte/appfokus/scribus/scribus.html – Short introduction for Scribus (German)
• http://www.bomots.de/scribus/ – Online version of a printed Scribus manual for 1.2 (German)
• Scribus-Forum – A German forum on questions around Scribus

Support in French

• Scribus Forum pour les francophones – A French Scribus forum

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

• http://yeccoe.free.fr/ — French site on DTP on Linux (including Scribus)
• http://www.niyam.com/content.html — Indian site on DTP and more (in English)
• http://www.linuxgraphics.ru — Russian site on using opensource graphics applications on Linux (including Scribus)
• Looking good: Basic color management for X — a NewsForge.net article on the state of color management at the X windows level
• PostScript-Dateien erzeugen und bearbeiten — German LinuxUser magazine on using PostScript utilities (in German)
• Linux Magazine article series: Linux for Layout
  • Part 1: A Linux Newspaper — Professional layout in Linux with Scribus (PDF, free download)
  • Part 2: Desktop publishing in Linux — Professional typography and layout with Scribus (PDF, free download)
  • Part 3: Desktop publishing in Linux — Putting the finishing touches on our Scribus Linux newspaper (PDF, free download)
• Create The Create project at freedesktop.org

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.
• PDF/X und Colormanagement. A manual (116 pages) about colour management and PDF in print workflows (German). Free download.

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
  • Gentium Fonts - recently re-released under new free license (Newsforge coverage)
  • Bitstream Vera family - The Vera font family donated to the Gnome Foundation by Bitstream
  • cwTeX TrueType 1.0 - Five sets of Traditional Chinese true type licensed under GPL, used in cwTeX (a Chinese variant of LaTeX) document publishing system.
  • LinuxLibertine a new font under the GPL, created to replace Times/Times New Roman (TrueType). According to the developers, regulars and italics already meet professional standards, other font faces (bold, small caps, text figures, sans serif) will follow.
  • Please see this survey of free font licenses for more detail on OSS font licensing.
  • Liberation font - recently released by Red Hat to replace Microsoft Corefont set (see below), still under development and refine

• Other freeware and shareware fonts
  • Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on linux [2]
    • Like it or not, MS corefonts, like Times New Roman, can't be ignored, simply because of they are widely used.
  • IPA and IPA Mona Japanese font
    • Recently bundled with Ubuntu-ja Hoary and Breezy distribution (the packages are ipafont_1ubuntu1ja2 and ipamonafont_1.0.3-0ubuntu1ja1)
    • There is certain dispute whether the IPA fonts are DFSG compatible, check out this blog and the Ubuntu Wiki for more info and discussions
  • http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm
  • http://members.fortunecity.com/aenigmax/
  • http://www.dafont.com/en/
  • http://www.designerinaction.de/fonts/show.php?art=fonts - Free and Shareware Fonts (Pages in german)
  • http://www.fontleech.com/ - A free font blog
  • http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file/l/en - 20 590 TrueType fonts of mixed quality and with different licensing conditions
  • http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-g.html 6500 TrueType fonts of mixed quality and with different licensing conditions
  • http://thelinuxbox.org/files/fonts.tar.gz - 6760 True Type fonts for free download (157.7 MB). Quality unknown.

• Fonts from Tex User group
  • http://www.gust.org.pl/fonty/ - Polish TeX User Group font website, many useful links to well designed free fonts
  • ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/ - A collection of excellent fonts from the German TeX Users Group.

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

• http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~hedrick/typography/index.html — Typography Resources
• http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf — Lots of math, but extremely useful for DTP, especially for making books.
• http://www.typo.cz/euro/ — Your Guide to Central European Typography
• http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/OTGuide.pdf — OpenType User Guide for Adobe Fonts
• http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ — Fontforge, an open source outline font editor

Font Management

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/gfclusterman/ - Gnome Font Cluster Manager - fairly new project, bears watching
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/hfm/ - Hamster Font Manager - appears inactive
• http://www.gesindel.de/index.php - Fontlinge - organizes, but cannot dynamically load or unload fonts
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/choosefont - Choosefont Font Manager
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython - Fonty Python - TTF only at the moment

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

Scribus templates

• Scribus hompage
• KDE-files.org

Printing

• http://www.pdfcity.com/index.htm - Free web service: checking, if your PDF is suitable for printing; PDF imposition

Tools

• Spot – handy little (windows) spot colour utility spotted on the internet.

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

• Monitor calibration under X - Howto on Linux.com (Language: English)