I’m just worried.Įven with money flowing out of advertising on paper and right into online advertising, Scribus continues to be an indispensable tool for desktop publishing when you can’t go for a proprietary solution. I do have a special place for the project in my cold, cold heart. I’ve been following Scribus since 2002 when I landed my first and, by now, probably my last fulltime job in the publishing industry. I know I’m probably making it sound a little depressing here, that is really not my intention. But it’s been a while since Scribus last participated, and none of the past students sticked with the project. In fact, new table frames in the 1.5 series are one of the results. Scribus did participate at Google Summer of Code in the past. So there’s less interest from computer science students. And when an industry is not doing well, there’s less interest in making software for it.Īnd then again desktop publishing is just not as fancy as, let’s say, 3D and visual effects. Unless, of course we are talking about organized crime we know as textbooks publishing. I think part of the reason is that, lately, the publishing industry is not at its best. But the project’s founder Franz Schmid left for family reasons in 2016, and there are no new people to make up for that departure. If you look at source code changes, the people working on the project are pretty much the same people who have been active with Scribus for the past 15 years: Craig Bradney, Jean Ghali, Alessandro Rimoldi. They made 1.5.0 release available in May 2015, but I demoed some of its new features like the Picture Browser as far back as 2009 at an exhibition here in Moscow. The 1.5 series has been in the works for a very long time.
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