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Unstable Scribus gets support for InDesign snippets

Unstable Scribus gets support for InDesign snippets

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

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Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell

Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell

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.

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2011 for Inkscape and Scribus

2011 for Inkscape and Scribus

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

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Scribus team starts an icon set contest

Scribus team starts an icon set contest

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.

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Getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus for printing

Getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus for printing

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.

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New free book in French on Scribus is available

New free book in French on Scribus is available

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

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Tables support in Scribus is coming

Tables support in Scribus is coming

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.

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Pantone.py 0.2 released

As a matter of fact, installing legal Pantone palettes for Scribus takes about three minutes. But someone somewhere will always spend hours creating a script automating that. And then share it so that everybody benefits.

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Scribus Generator 2011-01-01 released

Scribus Generator 2011-01-01 released

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.

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Scribus project celebrates its 10th birthday

Scribus project celebrates its 10th birthday

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.

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Packt Publishing releases Scribus 1.3.5 Beginner’s Guide

Packt Publishing have just released a new book by Cedric Gemy called "Scribus 1.3.5 Beginner's Guide".

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Scribus 1.3.9 released with new templates

Scribus 1.3.9 released with new templates

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

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Scribus lab in Zürich, June 6, 2010

Scribus lab in Zürich, June 6, 2010

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.

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Gradient meshes in Scribus and Inkscape

In case you don't read all these fancy blogs, Scribus 1.5.0svn now features gradient meshes support. Logically support for them was added to the Adobe Illustrator importer in Scribus as well.

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Scribus 1.3.6 released

Scribus 1.3.6 released

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

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Scribus 1.3.3.14 released

Scribus 1.3.3.14 released

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

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New book on Scribus in French by Cedric Gemy released

New book on Scribus in French by Cedric Gemy released

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.

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What’s new in Scribus 1.3.5

What’s new in Scribus 1.3.5

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.

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Interview with Scribus team, 2006

Interview with Scribus team, 2006

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.

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