Hello Scribus!
Duration:
20 minutes - standard talk
Scheduled:
Mon, 2010-01-18 11:55 - 12:15 Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Jon will give an intro to the scribus project, what it is, what it does, who it's for, and demo some of it's key features.
http://www.scribus.net/
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JonCruzJon A. Cruz is a professional developer with over 20 years of experience, working extensively in multimedia, including programming and 3D art creation, and has developed for a wide variety of platforms. Work includes R&D for mobile and other devices, servers for large mail and messaging systems, enterprise security applications, and user interface design and development. Currently involvement in Open Source is as a core developer and board member with Inkscape, working on more comprehensive integration of LittleCMS and color management features, tablet enhancements and general UI features.
He represents Inkscape with the OpenICC and Create projects, focusing on shared resources and collaboration with other software. He has participated as a mentor in Google's Summer of Code since its first year with Inkscape and recently also for OpenICC. He was a keynote speaker at SVG Open 2008, and presented talks at Linux.conf.au 2009, the Libre Graphics Meetings in Lyon and Montreal, and various Java users' groups.
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