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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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.