It's really easy to use if you have an experience with this type of software (eg. The software is stable and has good ergonomy. The book project can also switch translation, to ease the work of many micro and local self-publishing effort.įor the book, I used Scribus 1.5.4dev daily build: it was the only way to work around a Dpi problem in the released version making the UI too big or too little. The book project is designed to be fully dynamic with the other parts of Pepper&Carrot: if a user submits a correction on one SVG for the webcomic in the git of an episode, the change will be propagated to the book's files. So, it was a long and difficult task to find the best recipe and adapt all the other parts of Pepper&Carrot to be dynamically linked to the book project. If your project has a small amount of images, it's easy to switch formats and encodings for each of them but if your project needs a renderfarm to fusion hundreds of Krita files with thousands of SVG files to output the correct files, it can quickly become a tedious exercice.ĭual screen screenshot while scripting and re-rendering translations. One must do the mistakes, do trials-and-errors, export after export, to learn how to prepare in the best way the media before being able to export a good and solid CMYK hi-resolution PDF output ready for the printer. But Scribus also has a lot of traps: many format (*.pdf, *.eps, *.tiff, *.jpg, *.png) do not really react as expected in the first place and you cannot know it until you try it. Scribus is a very solid project, and I planned to overlay my artworks and my speech bubbles in it. Scribus is the only free/libre open-source software to provide a multipages CMYK workflow with advanced text and layout tools. The Pepper&Carrot comic mainly uses Krita (for artworks, Krita kra files exported to flat JPG at 95% quality) and Inkscape (SVGs for speech bubbles and text, exported as PNG). Screenshot: two instances of Scribus 1.5.4dev running side-by-side on my Linux Mint desktop: Here is my report if you want technical details: The Gitlab (Framagit) repository is here. I finished the beta version of book 1 last night in Scribus and the book is now ready to be proofread, exported and printed. I spent the first week of June here to finish a side project: an open comicbook project for Pepper&Carrot to be sold and printed.

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