How a game about making zines helped me recapture my creativity in lockdown

Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by jedimastert on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:19AM (#26366917)

I've been wanting to make a photography zine of some pictures I've taken over the last couple of years, but I'm at a loss for layout tools. I used inDesign in college, but I'm really not looking to dip back into Adobe, even if it's "only" $20 a month.

Does anyone know some open source layout tools?

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by meheleventyone on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:26AM (#26366942)

Check out Affinity Publisher it’s not open source but it is cheap and pay once. Affinity’s tool are also great.

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by JKCalhoun on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:49AM (#26368619)

+1 on Affinity Publisher.

But I started with their (excellent) vector app (Design) and followed with Affinity Photo. So I'm sort of an Affinity fan now.

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by southerntofu on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:42AM (#26368556)

For classical layout, Scribus is fine. For more advanced stuff, Inkscape is really good at geometry and Krita really good at hand-drawing.

If you're familiar with web technology, headless firefox/chromium can export to PDF, following @print and @page rules. There's a bunch of new(er) CSS properties for print usecases. i don't have anything to show yet but i've been delighted trying it out

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by adyer07 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @09:06AM (#26367427)

Do you have a scanner? I think traditional “paste-up” style zines have such a cool hand-made aesthetic. Plus, no licensing fees for a glue stick :)

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by etage3 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @09:01AM (#26367387)

I use Scribus. It can be rough around the edges, but I've made everything with it (magazines, pamphlet, art books...). https://www.scribus.net/

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by danielheath on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:31AM (#26367207)

Depends what you already know. I have had good success producing pdfs with chrome and html, but if you want high-dpi images for print that may or may not work for you.

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Re:How a game about making zines helped me recapture my crea... by nanna on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:55AM (#26368204)

I would recommend investing the time to learn and publish it in LaTeX (in all seriousness).

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