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David RevoyScribus , the open source desktop publishing software I use for my comics, just had two new releases!
- 1.6.6 (stable) https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-6-6-released/
- 1.7.3 (unstable) https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-7-3-released/
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Sven-Ola Tücke ✌@davidrevoy
Oh! really, you work with scribus! Thats awesome. Can I have a pepper scrnshot for a Linux presentation?
Oh! really, you work with scribus! Thats awesome. Can I have a pepper scrnshot for a Linux presentation?
@sven_ola Screenshots of Scribus running on Debian KDE with the Pepper&Carrot books on it (CC By)
- Sources: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/book-publishing (require 24GB)
- Books: https://www.davidrevoy.com/static9/shop#official
Emilion@davidrevoy @sven_ola Is there a way to buy your books from a EU-based web store? DriveThru is a US company, and in the current climate I'd rather prefer my money to not cross the ocean.
@emilion @sven_ola Hey Emilion, I totally understand, and I would do the same 👍
Unfortunately, for the self publishing books 100% made with FLOSS, that was the only company/solution I found long time ago, before that was so problematic (the Brexit put a lot of tax on the UK print pod). I might need to look for a EU print-on-demand solution soon.
For the version of the publisher Silly Studio (Italian publisher), they just put their Italian/English version in the shop https://sillystudiosofficial.com/shop/
@davidrevoy @sven_ola Check print houses in Poland too. Example: https://www.drukksiazek.pl/ (never used them personally)
Patrick Georgi@davidrevoy I used epubli.de for a few things I wanted on paper and am pleased with the quality I received.
Not sure about colors (I needed b/w), and I couldn't find a way to get their website to not be German though…
(addendum: I just remembered that German publishing has that oddity of "Buchpreisbindung", fixed book prices, which you might have to deal with when publishing via Germany. Far from impossible, but an extra thing to think about, so might not be the best choice…)
@patrick Thank you for the feedback and info! I'll study them 💜
Matt Godden@davidrevoy @sven_ola wondering, can the individual palettes (properties, Arrange Pages, align & distribute etc) be torn off to separate floating windows / put on separate displays (IIRC Krita can do that)?
Jolle Carlestam@davidrevoy Just ordered 2 X the bundle to give as gifts to my grandchildren. Please verify that by doing that I also contributed to your wallet, not just the printer and shipper?
@jolle Thank you very much for buying them! 🤩
Yes, I confirm, I received an email notification with the new purchase on the platform (order ID finishing by '60').
I hope they'll be well printed (I ask each time, and so far, only good feedback).
If you are curious of what goes into my pocket, I made this graph; outdated because of inflation and books are $23 now and artbook $25 (bundle price) but percentage are still the same.
A big thank you for your support!
artlog@artlog @jolle Yes, normal, I live in France, and to declare my taxes, I have to convert the currency to Euro (the 'bank of France' publish a conversion monthly table to indicate the change accepted by tax administration) so, when I split my part, it's already after that, that's why it's in Euro on the graph. ☺️
Jerk@davidrevoy Your love for sharing, open source and (as I just learned) transparency amaze me as much as your work. Really like to thank you for that! 😍
NeroBurner@davidrevoy @sven_ola needed to reread the comic of the second screenshot.
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep25_There-are-no-Shortcuts.html
such amazing storytelling. the only ascii char used is a question mark but still so much wonder so much curiosity. Marvelous!
@NeroBurner @sven_ola Thank you very much! 💜
SAÏD@davidrevoy OMG 🤩
Carl C@davidrevoy Scribus can have a rough on-boarding experience (especially if you've never used a frame-based layout package), but it's a solid piece of software. Unfortunately, it was confusing enough for newbies that DriveThruRPG quit supporting it for their print-on-demand.
I'm using it to lay out my PDFs, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do if I decide to take a product to POD. Get by without support, or lay it out in a different package.
Looking forward to trying the new stable, though.
Corvus@raven @davidrevoy what is the input format for a print on demand product? I expected that would be a PDF adhering to certain rules.
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Topaz 🐇@davidrevoy Cool! I just fired up Scribus again to lay out a minicomic, something I haven't done in almost two decades in that software. It worked great, even printing spreads direct to my printer!
@TopazRabbit Nice! When the exported files prints correctly Scribus is such a smooth experience.
Disclaimer: I worked as a professional "desktop publisher operator" (not sure about the word?) in my first years as a graphist (25 years ago 😆 ) in QuarkXPress then InDesign after 2003, so I don't have a lot of issue with Scribus user interface or desktop publishing jargon in general.
@davidrevoy I used a lot of Quark back in the day as well. I was in college when DTP was really taking off, so I used Quark for just about everything page layout-wise. I had switched to FOSS art tools for personal work around the time my job no longer required DTP, and I eventually automated my minicomic workflow using some Ruby and command line tools. But for this recent one-off, I didn't want to dust off that now-decade old code and I just used Scribus instead.
Sam Chavez (she/they/he) 🌈🤠@davidrevoy this is amazing 🤩 thanks for the tip!
Alan Campbell@davidrevoy very interesting. I have a side project that I’ve been noodling at on Krita for that last few years. Still unsure about publishing, this DTP tool for Linux is worth a look, at least if I see what my stuff would look like.
jfml - Jonas Laugs@davidrevoy Oh, nice updates, live spell checker, changing case and more!