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Linux/DTP Links

The following are links which have information and additional applications to assist you getting good results with Scribus. Feel free to suggest others to netscribe@mediaone.net


Color Management

www.littlecms.com

Along with the littlecms libraries, there is a very nice monitor profiler and scanner profiler which works with littlecms. These are standalone KDE applications.

http://www.freecolormanagement.com/

This site has a gimp plug-in which can assign RGB device profiles to images. CYMK support is expected to be added to Gimp 2.0. Note when compiling you may need to run: export LDFLAGS="-lm" before running ./configure/

Fonts

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/xsoftware.html

Comprehensive site on Fonts and X-Windows.

http://www.cpdrummond.uklinux.net/kfontinst-new/or http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfontinst/

A KDE Control Panel application which as a font Installer and also helps to fix problems with Star Office and other linux applications. Recommended.

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/

Type 1 utilities which ease the installation of Type 1 fonts.

http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/

Probably the most comprehensive site on True Type Fonts outside of the site at Microsoft or Apple.

http://www.freetype.org

Freetype libraries.

http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/

A true type to type 1 converter

Hardware for DTP

http://scarce.org

This web site has a very comprehensive listing of color management related links, as well as a command line scanner calibrator under development.

http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/album.html

This site is an interesting collection of articles and links on Linux and Mac, as well as ideas on using Linux as a DTP server.

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Has the Gimp-Print drivers - excellent reproduction on supported inkjets from the Gimp.

Miscellaneous

www.caldera.fr

Has a wide range of pre-press applications which run on Linux. Commercial, but demos available on the website.

http://www.wizards.de/~frank/pstill.html

Alternative to Ghostscript ps to PDF on Linux. Not open source, but free for educational and personal use.

Updated 16/01/02


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