[scribus] Scribus!

[F.Harr at softhome.net]

That's reasonable.  If it were me, I'd rather handel it myself, knowing my 
machines and their limitations, rather than having to explain the details to 
someone else. 

Craig Bradney writes: 

> 
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Jeffrey Silverman wrote: 
> 
>>> However, I am a bit confused about the concern about whether or not  
>>> print shops know anything about Scribus (or any other DTP software  for 
>>> that matter).  I just assumed that anything I would want  printed would 
>>> be provided to the print shop in PDF format. Is there  a reason for 
>>> doing it any differently? 
>>> 
>> 
>> Admittedly I only ever print single page ads, but I have never
>> mentioned my DTP software to any pritner and have only ever supplied
>> PDF docs, and have never, so far, run into any questions or problems
>> from the printer. Scribus' PDFs do seem pretty universally usable. 
>> 
>> I don't know that much about th eprinting industry, though. Is there a
>> reason one would supply a Quark doc to a printer? I imagine it used to
>> be done that way, in the mid '90s or so, before PDF became so
>> universally accepted.
> 
> You might if they have an archaic workflow that relies upon Quark  
> actually being active in the process. 
> 
> As for the previous comment regarding how imposition should be easy..  
> well, yes, it should, but imposition in the process of printing at a  
> commercial company is not something they often want you to be involved  
> with at all. Imposition software costs thousands of your favourite  kind 
> of money per license usually, and its a very complex process.  There are 
> still many companies that do not want colour managed  documents, dont 
> accept PDFs and certainly dont want you involved in  imposition. 
> 
> Craig 
> 
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