In diesem Jahr vergleicht der erfahrene Adobe-Trainer Beat Kipfer GIMP, Inkscape und Scribus mit ihren Adobe-Äquivalenten. Christoph Schäfer vom Scribus-Team stellt in einem Vortrag die Vorteile offener Dateiformate (ORA, SVG, SLA/IDML) sowie das Document Liberation Project vor. Zusammen mit Holger Everding (dtp studio oldenburg / FreieFarbe/FreeColour) wird Christoph Schäfer außerdem Freie und überlegene Alternativen zu kommerziellen Farbsystemen bzw. -sammlungen präsentieren, wobei Scribus 1.5.1svn als Referenzimplementierung vorgeführt wird. Jenseits der Vorträge besteht die Möglichkeit, mit den Repräsentanten der vertretenen Projekte in direkten Kontakt zu treten, Fragen zu stellen und zu diskutieren.

Da die swiss publishing days eine kommerzielle Veranstaltung sind, müssen Besucher eine Teilnahmegebühr entrichten. Deren Höhe richtet sich nach dem Zeitpunkt der Anmeldung, der Anzahl der Teilnahmetage sowie verschiedenen anderen Kriterien, und bis Ende Juli winken Frühbucherrabatte. Nähere Informationen finden Sie hier.

—ClausM (talk) 11:25, 27 April 2015 (CEST)

After producing a book on ‘how to produce and publish your own book using Scribus’ [1], I had taken up the task of writing a book on OpenOffice 4.x. Due to some complaining German speaking guys at a Linux ralley somewhere in the Netherlands, this title was quickly edited to serve LibreOffice 4.x users as well.
So now we have two titles on sale in the Dutch language:

Soon there will be a next new title dealing with the advanced use of formulas & functions in Calc,
which is used both in OpenOffice and LibreOffice. And there’s more to come!
Of course the layout will be done in Scribus version 1.4.4.

Here [2] you can find the cover, originally designed in InDesign  by Hans Hollestelle [3] from Kampen
in The Netherlands. The design was then rebuilt using Scribus.
(Some people still have to be persuaded into using OpenSource…)

I find Scribus 1.4.4 a fine program to use in OpenSource publishing in combination with one of the major
Dutch Printing On Demand firms, Scanlaser [4], beit that the interface could do with some improvements.
Eagerly awaiting version 1.5 because a little bird has whistled some promises regarding the interface…

Allround Promotion Artwork

We did a project for a big printing company who created hardware for one of there printer series. The main focus was to create a full set of inspirational art concerning: Manuals, serie number stickers and single color package print. Important question before we start was if it has to be printed offset or not. I Choose to start this project again with Scribus V1.4.3 and later V1.4.4 It did work out very very well. The manual itself took the most power of my workstation. This document went up at 12800 levels. This manual was fully loaded with vectors and no raster images where brought in. At the end the customer was very happy with the end result.

1. Manual fully based on vector styles 12800 levels !!
2. Same manual detailed view inside
3. Carbon Boxprint one color offset print
4. Scribus screenshot project files

Perfect job Scribus, cheers developers and the community. 2015 bring us hopefully the new upcoming v1.6 release let we hope for it.

After many years of work and more than a thousand bugfixes and feature implementations, the Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.5.0. Scribus 1.5.0 is a preview of the next stable version 1.6.0 and has primarily been released for testing purposes, so more users can help us with identifying and fixing bugs. It is not stable enough for use in real production scenarios yet, but it can help users to become familiar with the new interface and the amount of new features, the number of which has almost doubled in comparison to the stable 1.4.x series. More…

Scribus 1.5.0 Readme

It’s an ambitious project project, so every available help is welcome. More information on the ScribusCTL wiki: https://github.com/andreas-vox/ScribusCTL/wiki

Since its humble beginning in the spring of 2001, Scribus has evolved into one of the premier Open Source desktop applications. Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, with support from a large and growing number of enthusiastic contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to develop and improve “one of the most powerful and useful open-source projects out there” (TechRepublic).

Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK colors, spot colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Scribus has many unexpected touches, such as powerful vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus. The Scribus file format is XML-based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor – sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages, and more are coming in the future.