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** [http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/50/Linux_for_Layout_Part_2_Scribus.pdf Part 2]: Desktop publishing in Linux  — Professional typography and layout with Scribus (PDF, free download)
** [http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/50/Linux_for_Layout_Part_2_Scribus.pdf Part 2]: Desktop publishing in Linux  — Professional typography and layout with Scribus (PDF, free download)
** [http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/51/Linux_for_Layout_Part_3_Preparing_for_Press.pdf Part 3]: Desktop publishing in Linux — Putting the finishing touches on our Scribus Linux newspaper (PDF, free download)
** [http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/51/Linux_for_Layout_Part_3_Preparing_for_Press.pdf Part 3]: Desktop publishing in Linux — Putting the finishing touches on our Scribus Linux newspaper (PDF, free download)
* [http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/About Create] The Create project at freedesktop.org


== DTP resources ==
== DTP resources ==

Revision as of 21:14, 11 February 2006

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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
    • 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.


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