Hello out there! If any of you are using Scribus with our PDF to Book workflow, we’d like to hear from you. For those of you who don’t know about Scribus, an open-source desktop publishing tool, you can find some info here. For the rest of you Scribus pros, take a look at our forum post below and let us know your thoughts:
Using Scribus? We’d like to hear from you.
In an effort to expand our PDF to Book Workflow options, we would love to hear from our bookmaking superstars if they’ve used the open-source application Scribus to make a PDF/X-3 for Blurb. We’re interested in (whether successful or not) your detailed workflow, what stumbling blocks you ran into and any pertinent info that could help us develop a recommended workflow for this application.
Feel free to post your response here or submit your feedback directly to us via our support form (make sure to choose the “feedback” option from the dropdown menu).
Thanks!
2 Comments
I have been using Scribus and Gimp (+ Open Office) for a while now, and have made two books so far. I am learning by doing and think it would be nice to recognise this emerging software as worthy to have yor support: the easier it is for people to use, the more will switch to Open Source, I am sure.
re: workflow, I cannot imagine to work without the Gimp, and Scribus is fully integrated with it. Sometimes, I have some problems but forums and wikis always have some kind of answer to it. Eager to help with debugging and feedback if you have more specific questions.
Paolo
I am currently using Scribus to create 2 B/W text only books. I will hopefully be able to give some feedback about my experience, and the resulting quality of the books in a month or 2. The tools available in Scribus seem great so far, I have never used InDesign, so I have no means to compare them. I understand the main concern Blurb has is the PDF output of Scribus? I’ll see what I get when I’m ready to upload it I guess.
Cheers, Johan.