There’s a wiki with loads of information in it … … and probably plenty of free tutorials on youtube, e.g.
#Gimp scribus download pdf#
The program is packed with professional features - CMYK and spot colours, ICC colour management, direct editing of vector drawings, extensive PDF support and more - and provides everything you need to produce flyers, brochures, newspapers, books and more.Īll this power does take quite some time to master, though, and while the developers have tried to help (and there is plenty of documentation to point you in the right direction) you’ll need to be patient: the sheer volume of features means there’s still a significant learning curve. Therefore there is no fiddling around with installing extra fonts. Unlike other programs Scribus uses only Type1 fonts of the X-Server. Something I’ve never looked at, but here’s their page: and some info: What is Scribus Scribus: a free software desktop publishing program Scribus is a free software layout program for GNU-Linux similar to a couple of proprietary programs from Adobe and Quark. I just looked up best linux dtp software, and Scribus has come up. Not sure what to recommend for shapes, texts, fliers might be worth looking at WineHQ, to see which dtp programmes can run well? Have fun with the animation!
You’re right that it’s painting-focussed, but sometimes I just use it to resize the pixels of an image … the thought of going into Gimp for the same, and the awkward exporting, is a big no, lol. Yes, there’s a community at and people still post on the main kde forum too, and development-wise something’s always happening. Was able to post the extra 2 links for development versions too, so that could be useful to people. Their animation tools look really cool to me, so I’m looking forward to try that out. Though that’s not as useful for me, since it’s focused on digital art and I mostly need image manipulation, shapes, texts and filers.
It does look like it has a large community and good development. Was gonna go grab that at first, but instead decided to make a fool out of myself by asking.