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Grenoble, France
Community manager at Hyland. Founder of Une Jolie Musique, a not for profit studio using open source and open source based software only to record music and produce videos. I also teach and advise on open source, and write tutorials. Involved in various Open Source and Free Software projects and communities for many years. Ubuntu Studio co-founder.
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Me too. I really hope that I will find a new teaching job soon.
I have done HTML/CSS stuff for print & web documents, but this is very specific. I use Libre Office draw for very basic things, e.g when an unskilled person needs to be edit afterward from time to time.
Most of my graphic workflow:
- Gimp to prepare and export raster pictures
- Inkscape for vector graphics
- Inkscape for complete layout for a "one page" document, no matter the size (poster, roll'up, ...)
- Scribus to create specific multipages document
- Scribus to convert RGB pdf (ex: from Libre Office or Inkscape) to pre-print CMYK pdf
- Scribus to check colors and visual disabilities compliance (very easy in Scribus)
I have never had a negative feedback from a printing company. Scribus is generating fully compliant pdf.
You must know what the printing companies expects: colors, fonts (better to transform text in objects), layers, transparency ... and of course, respect of the printing templates.
For that, the tool is secondary. You should choose what fit your needs and your workflow, like you would choose a perforator in a hardware store. And not use something because of the brand and price.
I have seen many pdf from Indesign rejected, because someone thought that the software would do the job for them.