[Scribus] Quark 7

[Tobias Hilbricht]

Am Mittwoch, 25. Mai 2005 05:16 schrieb frank gaude':

> > GIMP and Inkscape are 
> > marching at an impressive pace, but when it comes to printing, they
> > are useless without scribus and/or Photoshop and Acrobat.
> > As much as I admire the progress of FOSS, there are still lots of
> > pieces to add to a seamless Open Source publishing workflow (think
> > about job tickets, software like pitstop etc.)

Quark, PageStream, Viva and other applications also take PhotoShop as 
Standard; PitStop, too - 
colourspace indication for example works just with PhotoShop-images. Why not 
using PhotoShop (which runs in Version 6 and 7 with CrossOver under Linux, 
too), 
when it comes to images meant for printing. For RGB-Images Gimp is already 
ok, for CMYK perhaps some day).

> Even now Adobe has
> raised the bar so high, with CS2 and Bridge between InDesign, Photoshop
> and their other programs, that others will likely never catch up.

Nevertheless there are biotopes for other applications as well, if there is 
good (preferentially printed) documentation, a vivid community and a good, 
usable interface. Scribus is already very usable for suitable projects.

Yours sincerely

Tobias Hilbricht