[Scribus] Scribus tutorial in c't

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Montag, 4. September 2006 22:54 schrieb Craig Bradney:
> On Monday 04 September 2006 21:58, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > Dnia poniedzia?ek, 4 wrze?nia 2006 19:04, Gregory Pittman napisa?:
> > > > those of you who can get hold of c't magazine and can read German
> > > > might be interested in the current issue (19/2006). It contains a
> > > > four page Scribus tutorial on the production of photo books and
> > > > posters (pp. 110-113). Scribus 1.3.3.3 for Win32 and Linux is shipped
> > > > on a CD-ROM which also contains the tutorial files. The CD-ROM also
> > > > offers a collection of 670 free fonts. Haven't checked the quality,
> > > > though.
> > >
> > > I don't think you can worry so much about the quality of the review.
> >
> > AFAIU Christoph was worrying about quality of attached fonts, not review
> > itself :)
>
> They also got the fact wrong that pdflib.cpp from Scribus does not relate
> at all to the PDFLib external library.
>
> Craig

Be that as it may, the comments in the tutorial were quite positive. What the 
author criticised is well known here (tables, non-editable frames in master 
pages, missing drop shadows for frames), but he explained the workarounds. He 
also mentioned Scribus' ability to have different page formats in one 
document (in contrast to QXP and ID).

All things considered, this is very good. I mean, _four_ pages in c't, plus a 
small article somewhere else in the issue I mentioned.  A lot of companies 
would gladly pay tons of money for that ...

Cheers,

Christoph