Monday, 2. November 2009, 15:36:39
gnome, cms, linux, color management
...
The Gnome Color Management project has now
it's own website. GNOME Color Manager is a session framework for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles. They integrated ArgyllCMS for calibrating devices. A lot of the progress and the details can be found on
Richard Hughes blog too.
Sunday, 12. July 2009, 16:59:04
layout, typo, scribus, font
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The Dev team released now the 3rd RC of the desktop publishing software
Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over the last RC's can be found at the
release post. Scribus 1.3.5 requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher and will be the base of the 1.4.x brunch.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the
additional sources lists.
Saturday, 6. June 2009, 13:31:05
layout, typo, scribus, font
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The Dev team released the 2nd RC of the desktop publishing software
Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over RC 1 can be found at the
release post. Scribus now requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the
additional sources lists.
Wednesday, 10. December 2008, 19:41:32
pdf, font, scribus, typo
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If you like to get detailed informations how to use
Scribus for layouts and prepress then you can now preorder
The Official Scribus 1.3 Manual at Fleskbook.
A sample chapter can be found at the
Scribus website.
Monday, 10. November 2008, 21:11:28
color management, color profiles, scribus, inscape
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Color profiles are usefull for prepress, image and video editing. Besides the package "icc-proflies" (contains ECI-RGB.V1.0.icc, ISOcoated.icc, ISOuncoated.icc, ISOuncoatedyellowish.icc, ISOwebcoated.icc, LStar-RGB.icc, PhotoGamutRGB_avg6c.icc, Fogra27L.icm, sRGB.icm) that ships with Ubuntu there are other free and professional color profile available:
Adobe
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/iccprofiles/win/AdobeICCProfiles_end-user.ziphttp://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/iccprofiles/win/AdobeICCProfilesCS4Win_end-user.zipECI European Color Initiative
http://www.eci.org/doku.php?id=en:downloadsICC profiles are a standard of color management. All of them are platform independent and can be used with Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape and F-Spot & Co. To make the profiles available system wide (including Windows applications running on Wine) copy the downloadad profiles to
~/.color/icc
Myself prefer the Euroscale V2 profile for print and the Adobe 1998 profile for image editing.
Saturday, 19. July 2008, 15:51:15
print, typo, layout, style
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Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 12:56:26
prepress, layout, typo, scribus
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The stable branch of
Scribus is updated to 1.3.3.12.
This version shipped with:
* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.
Monday, 23. June 2008, 20:46:46
prepress, layout, typo, scribus
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As i can see there are new
Scribus SVN builds available from this weekend for
Fedora 9. Hopefully someone updates the
builds for Debian/ Ubuntu too
Thomas Zastrow wrotes a little preview about what we can expect from
Scribus 1.3.5.
My favorite wishes about Scribus 1.3.5 are CMYK-Tiff images with alpha work in PDF documents and the text frames renembers their font properties and display them correct in the property panel.
Sunday, 24. February 2008, 21:27:04
style, qt, print, color management
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Scribus is a fine open source application for print and dtp. I'm using 1.3.4 often but it has its bug and so i'm waiting for an update. I was a little bit confused about the newer 1.3.3.x releases because 1.3.4 sounds like a successor of 1.3.3. Now i found
a little preview of Scribus 1.3.5 which will hopefully hit the streets soon.
If you using Ubuntu, you can get this SVN build easy:
Getting Scribus on Ubuntu/Kubuntu up and running
Thursday, 17. January 2008, 15:53:39
ubuntu, theme, font management, scribus
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With some hofixes of the textframe the
1.3.3.11 version of Scribus is released.
Scribus works together with LProf for color prfiling and Fontmatrix for font management.
At the first look the GUI of all looks a little bit ugly because they all are QT-based application. If you like to have a native Ubuntu look of them try out my QT-Ubuntu theme.
Read
my earlier post about a unique Ubuntu look with different toolkits.
Thursday, 10. January 2008, 21:58:09
font management, color management, dtp, scribus
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DTP on Linux = Scribus. The
1.3.3.10 version is a maintenance release of the stable brunch:
* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* New Arabic Translation.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
* Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.
Scribus works together with LProf for color prfiling and Fontmatrix for font management.
At the first look the GUI of all looks a little bit ugly because they all are QT-based application. If you like to have a native Ubuntu look of them try out my QT-Ubuntu theme.
Read
my earlier post about a unique Ubuntu look with different toolkits.
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