[Scribus] Telling about other softwares

[Craig Bradney]

On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:04, fredd wrote:
> On 3/25/06, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:18, Le Tigre wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > in "Le Tigre", we write (p.23): "Le Tigre is made with Scribus, which
> > > is the open version of DTP softwares Xpress and Indesign".
> > >
> > > A reader asks us not to mention the commercial softwares when telling
> > > about Scribus.
> > >
> > > Which would be: "Le Tigre is made with Scribus, which is an open DTP
> > > software" (in french, of course).
> > >
> > > What do you think about that?
> > >
> > > Raphael
> >
> > Yes, why publicise those other apps.. :)
>
> That's right.
> I never used these apps before, and just downloaded the demo versions. I
> won't speak about text editing speed which is definitively better in those
> two, but for the rest, Scribus is really more friendly to me. Even the
> first time I tried it I could get cool things done in a few minutes; on the
> opposite Xpress and InDesign are absolutely not intuitive for me.
> OK i'm not a pre-press professionnal, so it was just my nearly worthless
> point of view.

Quite the opposite in fact, in the current Linux Practique magazine review of 
1.3.2, they make note of how easy it is to achieve things in Scribus...

Craig
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