[scribus] Is Scribus of No Practical Use to Engineers, Scientists and Mathematicians?

[Thierry S. Lytle]

GIMP and Inkscape are both available for Mac. From my 20+ years
experience with Photoshop / Illustrator / CorelDraw et al,  GIMP and
Inkscape should replace your Phsp and Illustrator quite nicely.

TSL


On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 12:01 +0100, Professor Rodney Coates wrote:

> Hi Owen,
> 
> At the moment I use RagTime (a German Page layout program) which is  
> somewhat idosyncratic at times, quite complex and does not have quite  
> such an appealing Graphics User Interface as Scribus.
> 
> I use Pages '09 (Apples iWork suite) for general word processing. I  
> use Illustrator and Photoshop extensively, for the production of  
> scientific graphics. All these applications allow me to use (and have  
> so done for decades, in previous incarnations) Symbol font and Zapf  
> Dingbats. I cannot comprehend why Scribus allows me to have both these  
> fonts on its font list, but that they just do not work at all. I could  
> sort of understand if Scribus did not use them so did not show them.
> 
> Also, with respect to the fonts list, it is really nice to have DTP  
> and allied software present you with a list of "just those fonts" you  
> normally use. Then (as with Illustrator, for example) you don't have  
> to scroll through the entire several hundred (or whatever it is) to  
> reach the one you want, when you make font changes in a document.  
> Scribus allows this but, annoyingly - at least as far as I can see -  
> there is no way you can "deselect all" then select the half-dozen you  
> would ever work with. So I spent quite a while happily setting up my  
> preferences before discovering that two fonts of the half-dozen, for  
> the first time ever, just would not work.
> 
> Incidentally, I am of the view that there has hardly been a  
> significant true innovation in all the "upgrades" of Illustrator and  
> Photoshop that I have owned and paid for over at least two decades. If  
> I could find an OpenSource equivalent to these applications I would  
> change today. It is a project (finding them) that I am currently  
> engaged on. This is why I am so saddened with the Scribus situation.  
> It looks and feels really great but it just don't cut the mustard.
> 
> Finally: No, I do not have LaTex. I have known about it for some  
> fifteen years. My French engineering friends swore by it, but it  
> always seemed too complex for my purposes. Instead, I used MathType  
> which either had to be bought or was bundled into AppleScript. I shall  
> go and see what I can find in the way of LaTex software now.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Rodney
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 Aug 2009, at 11:34, Owen wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >> The Symbol font will not display; Zapf Dingbats will not display;
> >> Render Frame will not work (). Latex/Tex is not working/ 
> >> available ....
> >>
> >> I am a technical author. I need to set Greek symbols within lines of
> >> ordinary text. I need to set mathematical formulae.
> >
> >
> >
> > If latex/TeX is not available, why?
> >
> > Do you have latex etc installed
> >
> > can you produce documents in Latex?
> >
> > If you have latex, I suggest you use that for the time being. it also
> > has the advantage of making footnotes and reference list.
> >
> > Do your fonts display in Open office or whatever document editor you
> > are using?
> >
> >
> > -- 
> >
> >
> >
> > Owen
> >
> >
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