@paperdigits, just FYI, I decided to go with Scribus for this year’s family photo calendars. This changed my workflow a bit (coming from Inkscape), and I hope to have time to report on my workflow soon here on pixls.us. But let me first finish the calendars. A short teaser anyhow …
My workflow involves now
- LuaLaTeX with TikZ and the tikzcalendar library to design an individual calendar strip to place on every page
- I had to design a new font with 2 symbols for marking the time change because I found no suitable symbol anywhere else. The font symbols were designed in Inkscape as svg font, then imported into fontforge and exported as OTF which was read by LuaLaTeX
- Image editing and management in darktable, of course
- Everything comes together in Scribus. The calendar strip is imported from pdf, the calendar is exported as single jpg files for upload to the print shop.
Here’s an example preview:
Some issues with Scribus I already stumbled upon:
- The exported images have a 1 pixel wide white strip on the left. The background image is exactly aligned to the (0,0) position, so this is a bug.
- If I export to pdf and select to remove the bleed (option “crop to print borders” in German, don’t know the untranslated string, and option “use document bleed config” or similar), the pdf content is cropped but the page shows a white border of the size of the bleed instead. How do I crop correctly?
- The pdf import dialog shows greyd out options to import multiple pages. That option would be handy to import the calendar strip but is for unknown reason not available.