[scribus] Scribus in place of Pagemaker?

[Dean]

>From my experience I have found kde better than gnome with scribus

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 21:55 -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
> Thanks a lot Greg! Will try 1.3.3.12 as soon as I have a version of Linux up and running on a machine. Looking at MEPIS and Mint right now. Mint seems to be a bit more "prefessional looking". MEPIS defaults to KDE, Mint to Gnome. That's probably the difference I'm seeing, though there should be some design work unique to the distros as well. 
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> I'm assuming Scribus will work with either, or is there a preference? PageStream will work with either, but is more closely integrated with Gnome. I was told that there were mainly some GTK libraries that were required, and that PageStream would run fine under KDE if the libraries required for the GIMP were loaded. MEPIS comes with the GIMP, so should be ready for PageStream. Is Scribus the same -- works with either but a bit better with one or the other? 
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> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:55:12 -0400
> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
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> Frank Swygert wrote:
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> > > So what version of Scribus are you running? 
> >   
> To be specific, use 1.3.3.12 for now. Newer versions *always* can load 
> files from older versions. While there are some interesting new features 
> in 1.3.5, it still has a number of drawbacks on a practical level, and 
> once you save a file, you can't load it into 1.3.3.12 (there are 
> workarounds).
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> Do NOT use 1.3.4 -- this was a brief post-1.3.3.x and pre-qt4 version 
> that has had no bug fixes since it was released in May, 2007.
>  Unfortunately, some distros put it in their repositories, and we can't 
> get them to take it out.
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