[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of Page Maker 6?

[John Beardmore]

JLuc wrote:

> Frank Swygert a écrit :
>> How stable and functional is Scribus? Anyone here moved from PM to 
>> Scribus? 
> 
>  From my perspective, Scribus is not usable :
> 
> Stable version runs slow with midly large documents,
> crashes more than wished,  proposes a couple of buged basic features
> and a cripled usablity.
> 
> This being said, Scribus is very ok and powerfull for most basic works
> (like a single page with text and images but not too many layers)
> or for experts being pleased to slalom between bugs and external tools.

I don't think I've done a doc longer than 58 pages in scribus, but it's 
been fine for me under XP.

I can only speak for myself, but it's much more stable for me than 
Pagemaker 6.52 and InDesign 1.5 were doing similar work, and I don't 
think it's much slower.

I don't encounter any "proposes a couple of buged basic features", and I 
wouldn't say the usability was crippled either.  Maybe you could be more 
specific. I'd hate to see people put off Scribus by generalisations.

I find it very usable, pretty robust, and acceptable fast, more stable 
than Pagemake in particular, and significantly more ergonomic than 
InDesign, though granted there is room for improvement, at least in 
1.3.3.x !

Looking forward to 1.3.5...

It may well be a matter of perspective, but I'm very happy !


Cheers, J/.
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