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Music Unsealed, a local Brisbane based music magazine (currently an e-zine) which has been entirely produced using Scribus and GIMP. The magazine can be found at www.music-unsealed.com with the first issue download here

While we recently released 1.3.3.7 into the wild, one of the tools we used for the first time is the new OpenSuse Build Server. So why the rant ? In a word it is terrific. It still is in “beta” phase and there are features to be added. However, it is a major helper for [...]

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.7.This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released 1.3.3.6.

We rant and rave about Scribus’ PDF quality and its ability to make commercial grade PDF by mere mortals. A design decision made early on to focus on robust PDF export was in hindsight a brilliant one by Franz. OK, now that is one side of the PDF coin. The other side is [...]

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.6. This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released 1.3.3.5.

Linuxkouluun.fi has released six articles about Scribus on their web site. These articles cover desktop publishing basics and Scribus usage for beginners. All articles are written in Finnish.

One of the oldest feature requests for Scribus have been character styles and hierarchical styles. These are now finally implemented in Scribus 1.3.4cvs. Also Tsoots has done some good work on the new Style Manager, which replaces the old Paragraph Styles dialog, and he will hopefully describe it in a blog entry soon. I’ll take [...]

One of our translators and contributors mentioned to me that they had comments to the effect that Scribus is a “closed shop”. In other words, the team is really not open to adding new developers and contributors. So let’s dispel that rumour right now. It is not true. Not now, not before, never. To an outsider, it [...]

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.5This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recentlyreleased 1.3.3.4.

You might know that being an Open Source developer in general, and a Scribus developer in particular, allows you to travel all over the world, meet interesting people and have a nice dinner with them. This time I attended the GNOME Live! summit in Boston at the MIT. Thanks to Behdad Esfabod from Pango and [...]