#scribus

[curatorsday]

Thursday, April 3, 2025

I finished the online Scribus course today and started working on a J. Lars Hoftrup pop-up exhibit.

[gailynovelry]

It's that time of year again. That time of year where I format another book, and chatter about Scribus while I'm at it.

My current complaint; I still do not know how to stop the program from spawning out-of-bounds text frames far, far in the abyssal region of the scrollbar every time I generate a new page in the middle of the document.

It gets annoying to scroll down and delete the frames. > : (

[ceraunos]

has anyone got any good tutorials for using scribus for layout design??

Specifically anything good for someone switching from using InDesign, rather than focused on how to do the designing itself.

[arctic-hands]

I downloaded LibreOffice because my mom's fiance is helping me with Britishisms for my story and he used Libre to highlight and take notes for me to use

Anyway I'm not very techy and often don't use programs to their full potential, someone use dummy terms to explain I should/shouldn't convert from Word to Libre

[rwpohl]

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[notwhelmedyet]

Guide on Typesetting Fics with Scribus

I was recently inspired to try binding my fanfiction by @armoredsuperheavy​‘s guide How to Make a Book. But there was a big roadblock there - I run Linux and don’t have access to Word.

So I spent some time teaching myself how to use the open-source desktop publishing program Scribus.

I was pretty happy with the end result (see below), so I’ve now made an instructional guide for anyone else who wants to typeset a AO3 document for bookbinding using Scribus!

[tenebrius-excellium]

Satisfied but super tired right now because I sat through an entire online module of Scribus. I’m blessed, I suppose, because I get to take uni classes that teach me how to use Scribus and Gimp (Adobe Photoshop and InDesign alternative freeware). But it’s often exhausting. That’s because programs (and many skills in general) are taught as theoretical structures without content, and that just tends to drain the life out of me. If the framework is explained without the purpose, e.g. a real project that you would need it for, it sucks my energy faster than a vacuum cleaner. And it’s really hard for me to recharge my power and motivation when that has happened. Learning on the job comes easier to me. Nonetheless, I’m thankful because I can see where these skills, which feel like lifeless, empty shells right now, will be put to good use one day. It’s the content that will make them come alive, and then I am going to fully appreciate what I learned. 

Venting a bit because my energy to continue drawing the King Steve-saga is spent for today. Looks like I’m gonna be binge-watching a show tonight. 

Ughh, if I was better at sketching or something, I’d make my entire Rott fix-it fic into a comic. I have such a big desire to show it visually. You know...remake that entire movie to comfort us. Oh well. 

[jllongwrites]

Design a book cover with an open source alternative to InDesign | Opensource.com

Design a book cover with an open source alternative to InDesign

I recently finished writing a book about C programming, which I self-published through Lulu.com. I've used Lulu for several book projects, a