So I have been working with Scribus for the last few days for a project at work.  Being on Linux, I always look for software that let me do what needs to be done that are opensource, Scribus ended up being the perfect desktop publishing solution that works on Linux. If you are looking for Desktop publishing solution, Scribus can do the job for you and if I’m not mistaken, it works on multiple operating systems (including Windows).  Now my advice is that if you are going for Scribus, make sure you go for the latest version, even though it is from their nightly developped version, you are more likely to have better functions, more functions and a stable version if you do that.  I am currently using 1.3.3.6 and I think a better version is out already.  In any case, the post is to help with the page-numbering issue.

So I made my little booklet and realized that my page numbers were showing up wrong, after 10 or so pages, I started getting 1-2-3-4 repeated all over! What’s wrong? Apparently, you need to tell Scribus that you want more than 10 pages.  So on my master template, where I had put up a # sign to indicate I want the page number to come there, I had to put up ## signs for pages more than 20.  Simple solution, weird behaviour.

Thought I’d share this with the world.