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Linux doesn’t really have a good alternative to InDesign.

For photo editing I find that Darktable & Gimp serve me well enough. Fortunately, I don’t need to worry about CMYK any more.

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Noob question, why is CMYK editing different from any other kind of editing? You can convert rgb to CMYK, every printer does it, so what's actually missing?

Well you want to see what you are doing. RGB shows more colors than you can print. Theoreticaly when if you have cmyk profile from your printer and calibrated monitor you should see somehow accurate representation of how will things get printed.

Not a color expert, but every color encoding scheme is going to have a slightly different gamut. Meaning, CMYK can encode colors that RGB can't, and vice-versa.

Negative color values can be used to cleanly represent colors outside the standard gamut. But I'm not sure that CMYK even has anything like a standard gamut associated with it - so the details of that "conversion" might depend on what the CMYK data is for.

Scribus, and I'm DocBook/LaTeX junkie. Might not work for everyone, but I put out a lot of long forms and policy stuff.

I pipe through calibre for painless format shifting, as well.

They ever fix text selection in Scribus on Windows?

EDIT: Just installed 1.5.5 and nope, they haven't. Still no triple-click line or paragraph selection. Still no double-click-and-drag to select multiple words. Still only Ctrl+double-click to select a whole paragraph.

The same patterns to select text on every other piece of software on my computer don't work in this software designed to publish text.

I have no idea how y'all work with this stuff. GIMP and Scribus put basic functionality behind an obscurity gate, and then folks wonder why so many people have such a negative reaction to how they work.

EDIT: Yeah, I do still subscribe to the ticket filed THIRTEEN YEARS AGO to implement it. https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4303

I guess I never noticed because I don't use Windows and wasn't weaned on Adobe products.

Have you tried starting a bounty, or better, a Linux VM?

It does not work for everyone unfortunately. Scribus is terrible for design work. Fine for setting prose but doing more complex layouts is pain. Unfortunately typesetting is so niche that there is no way it would get better.

I wish affinity was on linux.

Scribus?

Tried Scribus?

Yes. At least at the time I tried it, it was not good, and choked on large documents. Perhaps it is better now, but it did not seem like it would be useful for professional work.

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