@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_ch @raven @davidrevoy

i was thinking the same

why would they care as long as the PDFs are conformant

i've done POD from google docs as well as LaTeX - they don't care as long as the PDF is correct

@rapsneezy2 @corvus_ch @davidrevoy Because the people submitting PDFs for POD proofs are amateurs, and they get it wrong over and over again (especially cover color profiles), and are waiting weeks and paying $20-40 per attempt, and expect DTRPG to help them figure out what's going wrong, or to refund their money (that was paid to the third party printer).

And most of the beginners on DTRPG are losing money trying to start a tiny publishing business.

@raven @rapsneezy2 @corvus_ch It took me 7 failed print proof to find a setting with DriveThruRPG/Comics: I'm sharing it here https://www.davidrevoy.com/article757/the-english-book-printed-project-production-report-3

I understand they officially stopped their support; their machines needs a PDF/X-1a support with a broken ICC color profile that the FLOSS LittleCMS project refused to make a workaround (so it's broken in Gimp/Krita/Scribus/everything)

It's really specific PDF, and it was a nightmare to make the right type of files. Took me 3 years...