Libre Graphics World

Did you ever wonder if free software such as Inkscape is going to get mesh gradients for impressive photorealistic graphics? We have some good news for you.

Developers of Scribus, a free desktop publishing application, improved support for IDML file format used by Adobe InDesign and added support for IDMS files.

The somewhat belated release of Scribus 1.4.0 is finally done. That's over 4 years of work, hundreds of bugfixes and quite a lot of anticipation compressed in a download that surprisingly small for a desktop publishing application.

We already “briefly” discussed how GIMP was doing in 2011, and now it's time for Inkscape and Scribus.

Acknowledging lack of visual consistency in the user interface, Scribus team started a contest for a new set of icons. Here is some background and an introduction to what you will have to deal with.

The question of getting CMYK PDF output from Inkscape is a very often asked one. Let's talk about getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus.

Floss Manuals Francophone have just announced immediate availability of a new free manual in French on Scribus—the free application for desktop publishing.

Elvis Stansvik continues his Google Summer of Code project working on real tables tool in Scribus. Even though most features are currently available via scripts only, there already is some user interface available.

It's not exactly easy to refer to a software project that has neither versions nor changelogs, but Scribus Generator is rather unknown despite of its immense usefulness, so let's not be strict about that.

One of these days Scribus goes 10 years old: in early December 2000 Franz Schmid wrote first lines of Python code for what later became the only WYSIWYG free color-managed desktop publishing tool for Linux, Windows and Mac.

A new semi-stable version of Scribus, a free desktop publishing application, was released today with minor new features and bugfixes.

The new graphics lab in Zü rich is taking place on June 6 and focusing on desktop publishing and Scribus, a free DTP application, in particular.

New relatively unstable version of Scribus is out and has officially stabilized enough to be recommended to more than just testers.

New stable stable version of Scribus is out with minor improvements and a number of fixes.

You can now preorder Cedric Gemy's book "Scribus. Premieres Mises en Page Professionnelles" at Amazon. This is the second book on Scribus available in French.

Scribus team has just released a long anticipated yet unstable 1.3.5 version of this free desktop publishing application. Let's take a closer look at the result of two years of hard work.

An interview with Scribus developers, taken back in 2006. While being somewhat old, it still provide a good insight into the team's approach to organization of development.