I am preparing Just Lorem Ipsum as a demonstration of the use of open-source software for book production. The interior of the book was produced with Scribus using free fonts. The text of the book is largely Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. Lorem Ipsum is fractured Latin, derived from a passage in “De finibus bonorum et malorum” by Cicero dating from the 1st century BC. The interior of the book is done except for the final corrections. You can download the complete book as a .PDF (see below).
Just Lorem Ipsum
The book is a demonstration of open-source software for book design. In an earlier post, I provided templates for the front matter and chapters of the book. Now I’ve completed the book and you can download the .PDF file of the complete interior by clicking here: Just_Lorem_Ipsum.pdf.
Please report any misspellings, formatting problems or else to me at John<nospace>Osterhout<at>John<nospace>Osterhout<dot>com
Other Templates
Scribus
Basic Book Template for Scribus – A 6 x 9 inch Scribus template that uses EB Garamond as the body font and Sorts Mills Goudy as the display font.
New Book – New Template – Just Lorem Ipsum. – A 5.25 x 8 inch Scribus template that uses Latin Modern Roman for the body font, Fira Sans Condensed for the chapter titles and Cinzel in various other roles.
Romance Novel Template for Scribus – A 6×9 inch Scribus template for romance or fantasy novels. It uses Honey Script as the display font and Cardo as the body font.
LibreOffice
Basic Book Template for LibreOffice – A 6×9 inch book template that uses EB Garamond as the body font and Sorts Mills Goudy as the display font. It produces an interior resembling that of the Basic Book Template for Scribus (above)
Romance Novel Template for LibreOffice – A 6×9 inch book template for romance or fantasy novels. It uses Honey Script as the display font and Cardo as the body font. Similoar the Romance Scribus Template.