Anyone used Scribus for PDF production?

Swift Publisher 5 is much improved and fixes some of the things that are missing in Pages like crops but it has the same Achilles heel, Apple’s color control, and print to PDF, which fails to meet professional requirements.

i looked at Scribus a few times and whilst it has some of the technical requirements for professional publishing, it is half baked and a horror to use, plus well out of date, perpetually. It is a swamp I am not willing to trust anything to.

Peter

Look at Swift Publisher 5 in the Mac App Store. Costs little money, and has a refined, functional Mac interface. You decide if it will produce what you need. Free Trial. The learning curve for Scribus will cost you considerably more.

If Swift Publisher 5 doesn't measure up to your needs, and if you have a friend that is an InDesign wizard, consider working something out with them to produce your magazine for commercial printing. Be certain that you fully understand the commercial printer's technical specifications and services before you begin.

You will lose an incredible amount of productive time attempting to learn Scribus with outdated help, and it uses a non-standard, non-intuitive, user interface that only a mother could love. It can import from .docx, .odt, .rtf, and other formats into Text boxes, but no longer supports any Pages document version for import, or placement, beyond copy/paste.

There are many apparent download buttons on the Scribus download page. Only click on scribus-1.5.3.dmg (released May 2017) link. Installation is a drag/drop within the installer, and you must subsequently visit /Applications, and right-click on Scribus — choosing Open from the secondary Finder menu, so Gatekeeper can verify the application. It will take time to launch due to building its font cache.