[Scribus] win32port

[Bart Alberti]

I use cygwin on speech synthesis so I have some experience. I compile 
with gcc in cygwin but my application is console based so I do not need 
the kde development libraries or even XFree86 stuff. What is needed in 
scribus is a full binary scribus.exe ready to run in windows native; if 
that is too much to ask then at least a binary for cygwin. No 
compilation. Moreover since the competition is already of there, In 
Design and Quark , scribus had better be fully formed and mature. But it 
is! Those who still post 'Linux-is-not-ready-yet' are tooting their 
horns uselessly.
For printing here is a kluge: if win32 print api is too much then 
associate each *.sla file with its *.ps file equivalent and print from 
gsview using ghost script. That has been suggested already; a few days 
ago. It is only a trick. Better to really print in Windows. Export to 
pdf and print using Acrobat Reader has been suggested too. Good Luck!
I was about to junk my win98 se laptop: P-II, 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM! I keep 
it for its font collection!

Bart Alberti