Scribus , the open source desktop publishing software I use for my comics, just had two new releases!

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy @raven @corvus_ch

David - i just read your journey - wow, what a journey.

It does show how, even after many years, basic things are still a challenge with open source software. Understandable as these tasks are very much specialist and not what most users do at home - and so attract less developer attention.

I was surprised by the Scribus bugs given how they have long centred themselves as a serious DTP option.

Hopefully your feedback and findings will result in improvements.

[raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com]

@davidrevoy I like how you incorporated a description of your test parameters into the back cover of the book.

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy @raven @corvus_ch

I had similar colour frustrations about 10 years ago and in the end I moved to Affinity software on macos which did a better job.

But the quality of colour rendition of POD publishers was so poor, even with excellent PDFs (inlcuding variability, good one day, bad the next, and they don't always the same printers depending on workload) .. i just gave up.

for my books I avoid any assumptions of colour inside the book now.

(that wouldn't work for "art" like yours)

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@raven @davidrevoy @corvus_ch

this is a colour bug for libreoffice going back to 2018 and still not fixed

116846 – Colour profile issues with edit view and PDF export compared to Preview

(bugs.documentfoundation.org)

[ced@mapstodon.space]

@davidrevoy
wow, that would really improve Scribus website which sorely miss any screenshot (at least any I could find!)

@sven_ola

[emilion@infosec.exchange]

@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.

[sven_ola@norden.social]

Thanks @davidrevoy ! I was not aware that you published all via Git. I am still waiting for my PC to silence it's fans, but then I have something to show off in a live scribus. A big THANK YOU. 🥰
cc @ced

[raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com]

@rapsneezy2 @davidrevoy @corvus_ch Yeah, this surprises me with Scribus, claiming it can be used for professional publishing. I didn't expect it to be so fiddly.

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@rapsneezy2 @raven @corvus_ch Thank you for reading! Yes, I'm still surprised this compatibility between Scribus and DriveThruRPG/Comic printing system wasn't a central point of Scribus. Lightning Source print on demand machines are still the number one indi printing solution, and Scribus could position themselves on offering a premium experience for this audience. But worst, they lost it.
A bit like if a video editor project ignored they couldn't export to a major player like Youtube.

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@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/

[metaning@mastodon.social]

@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)?

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@metaning @sven_ola Yes, exactly the same paradigm than Krita for the dockers windows (it's Qt), they can be docked or floating, and once floating, you are free to put them on the monitor of your choice.

[emilion@infosec.exchange]

@davidrevoy @sven_ola Check print houses in Poland too. Example: https://www.drukksiazek.pl/ (never used them personally)