[scribus] Using Scribus 1.3.5svn Productively

[Helge Hielscher]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:04:25 +0200, Benjamin Dumke wrote:
> 2. You have to be able and willing to dig into the source code. Using a
> precompiled version, I could not have worked on this project, as there
> where several things I stumbled upon that simply were not working for me,
> and that I had to have changed, obviously without waiting for a fix in the
> official svn version, if one were to happen at all. So I am using
> 1.3.5svn, but I'm using it with some changes applied, including changes in
> the hyphenator and the object placement algorithm, as well as additions to
> the scripter and the "Move Pages" dialog.

Are these patches available somewhere?
 
> 3. You have to know your other tools to use as well as know a few things
> about the PDF standard itself. Scribus (in any version) is not -- nor ever
> will (or should!) -- be a one-for-all tool. One great improvement that
> entered the svn version a few months ago was the ability to embed
> exisiting PDF files into the newly created PDF. Having lots of
> advertisements, most of which I receive as PDF files, this possibility is
> invaluable. However, while Scribus-created PDFs can usually be trusted, I
> cannot trust every single PDF I receive in terms of standards conformance
> et cetera. Since Scribus "only" embeds these PDFs as XObjects, anything
> that is wrong with the one small PDF is now wrong with the whole document.
> Hence I use a combination of Adobe Reader (not free, I know -- except as
> in beer --, but still a very important tool), ghostscript, podofo, and
> possibly others, to end up with a flawless PDF.

Would you please describe it in more detail? Most resources about checking
PDFs are about Acrobat, PitStop, PDF-Analyzer, etc. - closed source tools
for Windows.

Regards,
Helge