It started with teaching sessions with end users and then moved on to practical tests with Scribus 1.3.0, where some issues were found. They migrated to GNU/Linux with system integrator Angulo Sólido, for stability and cost efficiency reasons.Ī pilot project is running for migrating an existing print workflow to Scribus. Thus, twenty plus workstations are used for a variety of tasks like writing, image selection and other editing. PressPeople already use GNU/Linux for all their desktop work except desktop publishing. Each issue has a circulation of 20,000 copies or more. Those magazines are devoted to subjects like cooking, teenage life and society, for example. This Portuguese publishing company delivers several monthly and weekly magazines in different formats. More specifically, Nonluoghi Libere Edizioni has been using open source applications from the very beginning, but PressPeople is a completely different story.

At the same time whole publishing houses have switched to GNU/Linux. Many can barely believe that open source software can be used by artists for real work. Let's face the fact - people are pretty tired of the mythical 'Year of Linux on the desktop'. This article was originally published in Russian for. This interview with members of the Scribus core team focuses on upcoming releases 1.3.4 and 1.3.5, standards in pre-press, success stories and many other important issues.

Scribus is known as the most mature open source WYSIWYG page layout application.

Scribus 1.6