[scribus] Scribus for Comics

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Thu Sep 25 02:25:14 CEST 2008


Lars O. Grobe wrote:
>> was to take my Wacom tablet and draw/trace these pages into a DTP (I was
>> thinking InDesign at first).  Is that functionality available with
>> Scribus, and will it let me manipulate fonts and images?  How meaty is
>> the image editor (is it comparable to Photoshop)?
>>     
>
> You want to look at inkscape (compare to illustrator, corel draw, as it
> is vector drawing) and gimp (compare to photoshop, pixel graphics).
> Scribus is for layout work.
>   
I think Scribus could be quite good indeed in combination with inkscape 
and/or gimp. You could make the content of the comics frames outside 
Scribus, then Scribus could do the layout of the comic (and Scribus can 
do minor editing of vector graphics as well).

Greg




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