The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.8.
Like previous releases, work on version 1.5.8 focused mostly on bugfixes and
code optimizations, the latter of which are expected to lead to reliability and
speed improvements. We have also begun to prepare Scribus for using Q
Hi all,
In March 2022, Pantone colour palettes will be removed from Adobe CC products.
(https://www.printweek.com/product%20news/article/adobe-to-drop-pantone-colour-system)
It's currently unclear what's behind this move, since the corporate speak of
both companies is more obfuscating than enl
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.7.
Significant effort went into clean up of user interface margins and widget
sizing, however most changes have taken place "under the hood". Apart from bug
fixing this also meant to refine previously introduced features, as well
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.6.1. The
release was delayed due to the current pandemic, but we finally got there. This
is a major release on our way to 1.6.0, even though most changes have taken
place “under the hood”. Apart from a few remaining fringe issues
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.6.1. The
release was delayed due to the current pandemic, but we finally got there. This
is a major release on our way to 1.6.0, even though most changes have taken
place “under the hood”. Apart from a few remaining fringe issues
1.5.6 Release
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.6. The
release was delayed due to the current pandemic, but we finally got there. This
is a major release on our way to 1.6.0, even though most changes have taken
place "under the hood". Apart from a few remaining
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of the stable development
version 1.5.5. Unlike previous versions of 1.5.x, changes in this version have
taken place mostly under the hood and include a large refactoring effort to
make the code easier to read, easier to maintain and to increas
nk you, Peter, you will
be missed but we share your passion for our extended FOSS graphics
community, and will strive to bring welcome to our sister projects as
you brought welcome to us.
Bryce
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:20:49AM +0100, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
> The Scribus Team is
The Scribus Team is deeply saddened to announce the loss of our friend and
colleague Peter Linnell who in the end lost his long battle against cancer.
It is no understatement to say that without Peter Scribus wouldn't be what it
is today. It was Peter who spotted the potential of Franz Schmid's
Hi all,
freieFarbe/freeColour is proud to have achieved a major milestone in its
attempts to liberate colour. Its CIE-based approach to colour standardisation
has been approved by by the German DIN as DIN SPEC 16699 (freely available for
download after registration under:
https://www.beuth.de
results including the device settings are saved as spectral colours in the CxF.
HTH,
Christoph
Gesendet: Samstag, 28. April 2018 um 19:38 Uhr
Von: "Olivier Berten"
An: "Christoph Schäfer"
Cc: "Scribus User Mailing List" , "Create ML" , libre-graphics
An: "Kunst Tuepfel"
Betreff: Re: [CREATE] [LGM] Scribus 1.5.4 Released
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:08 PM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
>> > - Color precision for fill colors has been expanded to 64 bit floating point.
>>
>> Is this because of...
>>
&g
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.7.
Scribus 1.4.7 is almost exclusively a bugfixing and update release and will be
the last iteration of the Scribus 1.4.x line. All future development efforts
will go into the upcoming new stable version 1.6.x.
Most Important Cha
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of the stable development
version 1.5.4, which is in many ways a new milestone on our way to the next
officially stable release 1.6.0.
Most important changes
- Color precision for fill colors has been expanded to 64 bit floating point.
- Scr
Hi all,
As of tonight, Scribus 1.5.4svn provides an important new feature, which is
another "first" (like PDF/X-3 export or the HLC colour picker), namely support
for the open and versatile standard for colour palettes CxF3
(https://www.xrite.com/de/page/cxf-color-exchange-format).
CxF not
Hi all,
After a year of hard work freieFarbe/freeColour is pleased to announce the
completion of its first major project, the "HLC Colour Atlas", which is a truly
open colour system based on mathematics and unrestricted by copyrights or
trademarks. It has been created by colour professionals
Hi all,
Due to several scheduling issues it took some time for Peter and I to publish a
new GIMP/Photoshop article in the Swiss PUBLISHER magazine, but here it is
(including a video) in German:
https://publisher.ch/fachzeitschrift_detail.php?t=Die%2BTechnik%2Bder%2BFuge&read_article=10275&t=D
Gesendet: Montag, 04. Dezember 2017 um 09:11 Uhr
Von: "Jan-Peter Homann"
An: "Christoph Schäfer"
Cc: "Eric Soder" , "everd...@freiefarbe.de" , "Peter Jäger"
Betreff: CxF- colour plattes (e.g. from freie Farbe) in Open Source applications
Hi Susan and the rest,
I'll reply to everyone in one mail, so the information doesn't get scattered all over the place.
> This is huge...
> This opens another area of proprietary design which affects the fashion industry.
Yes you are correct. This is huge and might affect the text
Hi all,
I have some incredible news for you.
Yesterday freieFarbe/freeColour received a message from the German industrial
standards organisation (DIN) that our proposal for an open standard for "Open
Colour Communication" based on the HLC colour model (aka as Lhc) has been
accepted and wil
Liebe Scribus-Anwender,
vom 19. bis 21. September finden in Bern die alljährlichen "swiss publishing
days" (http://www.swiss-publishing-days.ch/start.php?read_category=41) statt.
Dort treffen sich professionelle Anwender, Ausbilder und Entwickler zu allen
Themen rund um das Thema "Publishing"
The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release 1.5.3,
another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0.
In addition to being a milestone in terms of typographic features, the Scribus
Team is convinced that 1.5.3 has become stable enough to be used in new
workflows and doc
Liebe deutschsprachige Scribus-Anwender,
in der Ausgabe 3/2017 der Zeitschrift "c't Digitale Fotografie" wird ein
22seitiges Tutorium zur Benutzung von Scribus 1.5.3(svn) mit dem Schwerpunkt
"Fotobuch" erscheinen. Das Tutorium deckt dabei nicht nur Fotobuchfunktionen
ab, sondern führt grundsät
d will benefit
from truly free colours and better colour software.
December 2016
Holger Everding
Christoph Schäfer
www.freiefarbe.de
www.freecolour.org
___
CREATE mailing list
CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Hi all,
I represented LibreGraphics during the "swiss publishing days 2016" in
Bern/Switzerland. I held two talks, one about the most important LibreGraphics
programmes that are available on all major desktop platforms, and another one
on professional business publishing with LibreOffice and S
Hi all,
On occasion of Photokina 2016, the Swiss "Publisher" magazine wants to publish
an article on RawTherapee in its next issue. If anyone of you has experience
with both Lightroom and RawTherapee and is thus capable of comparing both
programmes, you have the chance to earn CHF 150 for a one
Hi all,
Those of you who will attend the "swiss publishing days 2016" in November in
Bern can now vote for LibreGraphics talks, namely:
- Alternatives to Photoshop (which will feature GIMP as the main competitor) by
Peter Jäger, a professional Photoshop and GIMP trainer
- A comparison between
Hi all,
The first article comparing GIMP and Photoshop, as well as the related videos
are now freely available:
Text:
http://publisher.ch/fachzeitschrift_detail.php?t=Freistellen%2Bim%2BH%25C3%25A4rtetest&read_article=9389&t=Freistellen%20im%20H%C3%A4rtetest
Videos:
http://publisher.ch/fachz
Hi all,
The Swiss magazine "Publisher" will make available a series of articles on
comparisons between GIMP and Photoshop CC. The articles will be freely
available some time after the realease of each printed edition. More
importantly, the written articles are only one part of the project, the
The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development
version Scribus 1.5.2, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured
version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.2 can be already be regarded as
robust. The Scribus Team encourages the wide-spread use and testin
The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development
version Scribus 1.5.1, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured
version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.1 can be already be regarded as
robust. The Scribus Team encourages the wide-spread use and testin
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2016 um 19:57 Uhr
> Von: "Scribus User"
> An: "Scribus User Mailing List"
> Betreff: [scribus] Swatchbooker project needs some help
>
> Swatchbooker has been discussed recently as a game changing tool for
> OpenSource color management. Christoph has helped spe
Hi all,
The latest round of ODF filter updates for Scribus has been finished last night
with a completely rewritten ODT importer (kudos to Franz!). It not only
supports more ODT features, but is also more tolerant when it comes to files
not created by LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
All the new co
That's great news, given the huge number of contributors from South America.
However, I wonder whether Brazil will be able to manage this. I mean, organising the world's biggest sporting event last year and doing the same for the second-biggest event next year is one thing, but hosting LGM? Ho
Hi all,
The slides of the talks during the "swiss publishing days 2015" in Bern are now
online:
http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/winterthur_n.php?t=Teilnehmer-Seite&read_group=19
The most interesting talk with respect to Libre Graphics, was the one by Beat
Kipfer (http://swiss-publishing-week
Hi all,
As of yesterday night, Scribus 1.5.1svn finally provides a working import
filter for XTG files (QuarkXPress Tags), i.e., plain text files with formatting
instructions. Until then, the XTG filter's main achievement was to not crash
Scribus and to import the files as plain text, without
Hi all,
Franz has added an initial version of an RTF importer to Scribus 1.5.1svn,
which will close an important feature gap, since formatted text is still
overwhelmingly exported as RTF for use in DTP programmes.
Those of you who regulary build and test Scribus trunk are encouraged to test
t
Hi all,
The print edition of Publisher 5-2015 is out, and as per usual, the articles
are now freely accessible online.
If you can read German, an article on G'MIC, titled "G'MIC -- the magic set" is
available here: http://publisher.ch/dynpg/upload/imgfile7063.pdf
The column I wrote to promote
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 27. September 2015 um 15:48 Uhr
> Von: "Boudewijn Rempt"
> An: "Gregory Pittman"
> Cc: create@lists.freedesktop.org
> Betreff: Re: [CREATE] ORA logo?
>
> Looks fine to me! I completely missed that, I guess (or forgot...)
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>
Hi all,
I'll be advocating open file format standards during the "swiss publishing
days" in November in Bern/Switzerland. For pixel images, I will of course
introduce ORA, but I couldn't find anything resembling the "official" SVG logo.
Did the good souls behind ORA already consider the creati
Hi there,
I'll be holding a talk on Open File Formats (ODF, SVG, ORA etc.) during a
prestigious conference primarily targeting German-speaking Adobe users ("swiss
publishing days": http://swiss-publishing-week.ch) in November in Bern.
For that purpose I'd be glad to receive some detailed inform
Hi all,
As of yesterday, a local Swiss radio station has made available a podcast (MP3,
AAC: http://www.stadtfilter.ch/DigitalPodcast/Digital20150623) that covers
Libre Graphics alternatives to Adobe CC. It's a mix of Swiss German and High
German, just in case you're interested in listening to
Hi all,
Not long ago, we released Scribus 1.5.0, and the development of 1.5.1, which
will bring us closer to the next stable version 1.6.0, is underway.
We have recently added some amazing new features that need feedback and testing
from those who are willing to build 1.5.1svn (and a new depen
After many years of work and more than a thousand bugfixes and feature
implementations, the Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus
1.5.0. Scribus 1.5.0 is a preview of the next stable version 1.6.0 and has
primarily been released for testing purposes, so more users can help u
I'm pleased to introduce a new member to the Libre Graphics Community: the
German initiative FreieFarbe / FreeColour.
Please take note of their initial announcement below.
Christoph
===
Announcement: Project FreieFarbe / FreeColour has been launched and Open Colour
Systems Collect
Scribus by Christoph Schäfer, i.e.
myself (Scribus Team). The GIMP presentation (11 September) will focus on GIMP
as an alternative to Photoshop. My Scribus talk (10 September) will cover
advanced graphics features in Scribus 1.4.x and 1.5.0svn.
Conference language will be German, and since this is a
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2014 um 17:17 Uhr
Von: "Richard Cichelli"
An: scri...@lists.scribus.net
Betreff: A Day with Scribus
Software Consulting Services, LLC is promoting the use of Scribus by
newspapers. We will be holding a free seminar at our offices titled "A Day
with Scribus". Please
Hi all,
The Swiss "Publisher" Magazine (www.publisher.ch), one of this year's LGM
sponsors, seems to have intensified its reporting about FLOSS Graphics not only
with respect to featured articles, but also in its "News" section recently.
Hence my suggestion for projects that are relevant for a
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. März 2014 um 23:54 Uhr
> Von: "Christoph Schäfer"
> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" , "Scribus
> Development Mailing List"
> Betreff: [scribus] Open Raster import in 1.5.0svn
>
> Hi all,
>
> As of tonight,
Dear Scribus users,
I have wonderful news for you and for Scribus!
Software Consulting Services, LLC (www.newspapersystems.com), the co-inventor
of QuarkXtensions, has released version 14.0.1 of the advertising dummying
system Layout-8000. One of its major new features is full support for Scrib
> Gesendet: Montag, 20. Januar 2014 um 21:24 Uhr
> Von: Gez
> An: create@lists.freedesktop.org
> Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Code of Conduct
>
> > > male white human beings are "priviledged" and also monsters that need to
> > > be kept at bay.
>
> Guys, after a few rounds this conversation about "wh
Hi Simon,
> Hi Christoph.
>
> "Christoph Schäfer" (christoph-schae...@gmx.de) wrote:
> > Second: You don't actually expect a rational discussion on the issues
> > you raised, do you?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't either, right?
Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. Januar 2014 um 05:44 Uhr
Von: "Dave Crossland"
An: "Christoph Schäfer" , "Gregory Pittman"
Cc: "Susan Spencer" , "Create ML"
Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Code of Conduct
Hi!
> NB: This email offers no practical advice abou
Hi Susan,
>> The discussion about keeping people safe and providing a reasonable
>> assurance of a respectful environment has been all over the web for years.
These are two completely distinct issues.
>> I can't possibly cover all the bases about this, especially to everyone's
>> satisfactio
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014 um 19:41 Uhr
Von: "Susan Spencer"
An: "ale rimoldi"
Cc: "Create ML"
Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Code of Conduct
This is a great code of conduct for community at large. (Thanks Jon!)
http://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
And this is a great procedural impleme
Hi there,
For those who can read German (or want to use an online translation service),
I've written an article on FLOSS vector drawing programs for the Swiss
PUBLISHER magazine, which is now available online (HTML and low-res PDF) here:
http://www.publisher.ch/fachzeitschrift_detail.php?t=Offe
Hi all,
The Swiss PUBLISHER magazine has made my article (in German) on FLOSS pixel
editing software publicly available:
-
http://www.publisher.ch/fachzeitschrift_detail.php?t=Freie%2BPixel-Profis&read_article=6561&t=Freie%20Pixel-Profis
(HTML)
- http://www.publisher.ch/dynpg/upload/imgfile59
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. März 2013 um 05:55 Uhr
> Von: "Guillermo Espertino (Gez)"
> An: create@lists.freedesktop.org
> Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Free and legal download of Pantone colour palettes from
> Adobe
>
> El 28/03/13 00:14, "Christoph Schäfer&qu
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. März 2013 um 11:26 Uhr
> Von: "Joao S. O. Bueno"
> An: "Christoph Schäfer"
> Cc: CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org
> Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Free and legal download of Pantone colour palettes from
> Adobe
>
> On 27 March 20
Hi,
Just in case it has escaped anyone's attention, Adobe has made the Pantone
colour palettes that had been shipped with Illustrator versions prior to CS6
freely available for download here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html
All you need is SwatchBooker to convert the AC
Hi Olivier,
> I indeed stopped working at it as it seemed nobody was interested in
> it (on the developers' side at least)...
>
>From the perspective of Scribus, SwatchBooker is an indespensable tool. We
>have dedicated a separate page in our online docs to your work, as well as
>mentioned it
Original-Nachricht
> Datum: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:54:38 +0400
> Von: Alexandre Prokoudine
> An: Kunst Tuepfel
> Betreff: Re: [CREATE] Sample files from older programs for those who would
> like to re-engineer
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:38 AM, "C
Hi,
I finally managed to install eComStation (formerly known as OS/2) in
VirtualBox. Since eCS is also being shipped with a Windows 3 environment, I was
able to install some really old graphics programs whose output may be of
interest to those who are versed in reverse engineering.
Here's what
On Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2011 18:19:51 Olivier BERTEN wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was wondering in real life graphic design what color libraries other
> than Pantone people actually use...
>
> NCS, RAL, HKS someone?
>
> Olivier
Salut !
It really depends on where you live/work and your area of work.
Pa
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010 15:49:01 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> The .indd file format isn't public, AFAIK - but since I am attending the
> Creative Suite Developers Conference today - I will double check!
>
> What _IS_ available to you and should be under an acceptable license (and
> if not, let me kn
Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 05:56:11 schrieb Jon Cruz:
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > Ok, I will clarify my opinion. I agree that swatchbook is more than just
> > colors, that includes gradient, pattern, brushes, etc... And that we
> > currently have no easy way to exchang
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 04:54:22 schrieb Christoph Schäfer:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 04:41:54 schrieb Jon Phillips:
> > Interesting. The question I have is if our efforts are important and
> > should be continued, and we should increase amount of energy put into
>
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 04:47:30 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> On 12/30/09, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Interesting. The question I have is if our efforts are important and
> > should be continued
>
> The reaction in pro segment here in RU was more or less: "Um, are
> there going to be colour
uss
the issues with all interested parties. I can (and will) tell you more after
the meeting in mid-January. One thing they already told me is that they think
the notion of "numbers as intellectual property" is "absurd."
Cheers,
Christoph
>
> 2009/12/29 Christoph Sch
Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009 04:13:18 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Louis Desjardins <
>
> louis_desjard...@mardigrafe.com> wrote:
> > Pantone is not an ink manufacturer.
>
> Pantone, a division of XRite, most certainly produces inks, paints and
> more. I can tell
Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 22:35:28 schrieb Doug Schepers:
> Hi, Christoph-
>
> Christoph Schäfer wrote (on 11/10/09 11:39 PM):
> > Just thinking aloud as a preparation or future discussions with the
> > colour company: Does anyone think that a model like ODF/OASIS w
Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 11:13:01 schrieben Sie:
> That's excellent news! I do believe it makes much of my work obsolete.
> Neat. Christoph, this is incredibly exciting. One question: in the case of
> modified colours, where the company doesn't want its name used, does that
> mean not even be
Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 11:31:17 schrieben Sie:
> Actually, after my previous enthusiasm, I've come up with a little sober
> second thought. Questions:
> Their goal is to sell ink and fan books. They're developing the ink. How
> can we expect them to deal with that ink? I'll take it for gran
Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 11:31:17 schrieb ginger coons:
> Actually, after my previous enthusiasm, I've come up with a little sober
> second thought. Questions:
> Their goal is to sell ink and fan books. They're developing the ink. How
> can we expect them to deal with that ink? I'll take it f
Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 10:05:19 schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
> Fine news.
>
> Am 10.11.09, 05:17 +0100 schrieb Christoph Schäfer:
> > world. The company is currently developing a new colour matching system
> > for printing. The system is different from Pantone or Toyo in
Hi all,
At least for those who are interested in commercial printing I have good news.
I have been contacted by a manager of one of largest ink producers of the
world. The company is currently developing a new colour matching system for
printing. The system is different from Pantone or Toyo in
Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 05:34:08 schrieb Yuval Levy:
> Danke fuer die Erklaerungen, Christoph.
Aber gerne doch :)
>
> Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > Scribus is primarily designed for creating print-ready PDF and PostScript
> > files, which means, among others, that it do
Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 23:27:25 schrieb Yuval Levy:
> Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 08:33:26 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> >> Does Scribus import SVG flawlessly?
> >
> > No, and you know why.
>
> I don't. would you ca
Hi Alex,
Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 09:43:24 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> >> Just how many more Ubuntu Studio, 64 Studio and AGNULAs do we *really*
> >> need? :)
> >
> > What we need is a distro cre
Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 08:33:26 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > 100% agreed, although better integration between different applications
> > is certainly not a bad idea. Hence the idea of a specialised and neatly
Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 04:43:11 schrieb Yuval Levy:
> Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> > at least in my opinion, is the attitude of some developers, which comes
> > down to: "You don't like something or desperately need a feature? Well,
> > here's the Free cod
Hi,
Wow, that's a lot of stuff deal with :)
Am Samstag, 3. Oktober 2009 06:27:51 schrieb Yuval Levy:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > What about s/Libre/Liberation/ or s/Libre/Liberty/ ?
>
> honestly and directly: the concept of Freedom (and it does not matter
> what synonyms are being used) is overloaded
Am Dienstag, 18. August 2009 20:02:17 schrieb Brian Vidal castillo:
> what about working with the GIMP UI redesign and take advantage from this
> process and reflect this on Inkscape or Scribus?
>
> this can be achieved I think...
>
> Somebody said Inkscape and Scribus are working on the UI, well G
Am Samstag, 11. Juli 2009 13:22:00 schrieb Tobias Jakobs:
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:09, Christoph
>
> Schäfer wrote:
> > The results are more than promising. While some major (and also some
> > minor) colour vendors of all sorts (not just ink, but also glass
OK, I'll bite ;)
The issue is a bit more complicated as it seems to be at first sight (as it
probably always is).
Disclaimer: I'm describing the issue mainly from the Scribus point of view,
but I think it may be even more complicated for other projects (or not, as I
may very well be mistaken).
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