[Scribus] Example of what I would like to do

[stu seven]

+     I'd like to add to this... what I've seen on the list several times
has been simply the problem of  said business is already set up to
use expensive apps, or, for instance, their printer accepts only
output from quark/photoshop/etc... so, however easy it might be to
duplicate the look of your example pages, you might find yourself
out on the street if you pushed them into something which suddenly
fell apart - and you dont want that Im sure.
     It is, again, a situation which pops up here a lot, and I think
really, until some open source printing people start making services
available, these trivial seeming cross over problems will continue to
present open source users with major headaches.


On 10/5/07, dbeach at klikmaker.com <dbeach at klikmaker.com> wrote:
> This is my first submission to this mailing list. If it's not
> appropriate for this list, I apologize in advance.
>
> I help produce an annual catalog at my job. We use all of the usual
> stupendously expensive desktop publishing applications: Quark Xpress,
> InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. etc.
>
> I would like to find out how much of this can be done with Open Source
> apps. I have a sample page from our current catalog at:
>
> http://www.klikmaker.com/pdf/211TestPage.pdf
>
> All photos in  this project are CMYK TIFFs with clipping paths, with
> the occasional EPS vector image.
>
> So far, I haven't been able to puzzle out how to make those blocks of
> copy in my sample, with tabs and rules under each line. I also do not
> know how to use The GIMP to generate CMYK TIFFs with clipping paths.
>
> Basically, I want to be able to do everything on this page with
> Scribus, The Gimp and Inkscape. If I can do this with Scribus and
> other Open Source apps, I may be able to advocate a switch here at
> work. I would appreciate any pointers on how to produce a page like
> this.
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