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The ‘Ubuntu Software Center’ Guide

28 Sep

The Vancouver Ubuntu-loco team has announced the release of a PDF guide to using the Ubuntu Software Center. The guide has of screenshots to illustrate instructions and ideas, and by using accessible language ensures that even linoobs can understand the points being made.

Although the guide  is “…written primarily for the benefit of those coming from the world of proprietary, community-less software where random apps are downloaded from random web sites”, it can still prove useful to existing Ubuntu users.

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Scribus: Opensource Desktop Publishing Tool for Ubuntu

08 Oct

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and other desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

It is powerful Desktop Publishing (DTP) software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds. It also comes with a lot of support options to help you achieve the best results.

Get Scribus :- ‘Scribus 1.5.0 svn’ can be downloaded and installed using the Ubuntu PPA of Scribus-Trunk. Open the terminal and type :-

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:scribus/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install scribus-trunk

and done. Access Scribus from Applications>Graphics>Scribus(Trunk).

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PDFedit – a very good PDF editor for Linux

27 Aug

We are very sorry for taking long to post a new post. We’ve been busy lately. :(

PDFedit is a PDF editor for Linux and supports word-processor style editing of the unencrypted PDF files. It is pretty easy to use and can be used if you want to make some changes to your PDF files and then distribute them.

To install it, either you can use Add/Remove or the Synaptic Application manager or simply use:

sudo apt-get install pdfedit

in the terminal. :)