Desktop Publishing With Scribus 1.3.0 (Linux Magazine) [LWN.net]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier takes a look at Scribus, on Linux Magazine. "For the most part, Scribus should have all of the features most users need to create complex documents for publication. It's more than suitable for home users who might want to create nice-looking documents (expect this year's Christmas newsletters to look extra-nice), and should be able to handle a great deal of professional DTP work as well. It's apparently quite good at creating PDF forms for small businesses as well."

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Desktop Publishing With Scribus 1.3.0 (Linux Magazine)

Posted Jul 25, 2005 1:59 UTC (Mon) by malex (subscriber, #15692) [Link]

Joe mentions that "you can probably expect packages for 1.3.0 to start showing up pretty soon as well.". One of the aspects of Scribus development is that most Scribus package maintainers are closely monitoring or are involved in the developmental process. So, the usual state of things is that packages for most major distributions are ready even before a release is announced. Scribus wiki at http://wiki.scribus.net has information on how to install Scribus on a variety of systems. Here is a listing of relevant how-tos
* Installing Scribus on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
* Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (Fink/X11)
* Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X (native version / Aqua)
* Installing Scribus on Win32 (Cygwin/X11)
* Compiling LPROF-1.09 on Debian Sarge Linux 2.6.8-1-386
* Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux

For example, the "Scribus on Debian GNU/Linux" page provides information on our upstream repository that contains packages for the 1.2 and 1.3 Scribus series for Debian stable/testing/unstable and Ubuntu hoary/breezy that closely track Scribus development.