[scribus] Scribus vs. QuarkXpress

[Owen]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:56:00 -0500
Michael Chamness <chamness at daktel.com> wrote:


> 
> I do newsletters for specialized groups, and also the color bulletin 
> covers for a local church, and have found Scribus to be just as adept
> at handling things like text columns, inset pictures, runaround text,
> all the things I used Quark for, at least equal to Quark. The only
> thing I really miss is Quark's menu choice of frames for graphics (or
> text, for that matter). Quark came with a nice assortment of
> decorative frames, which became the box itself when applied. Scribus
> requires a frame to be drawn over the object, line frames only
> apparently, though various corners are available, from using the box
> draw choice, then the color (default is black) has to be removed to
> expose the graphic. Line thickness is availble, and I've found that
> most clients are satisfied with just a black line frame around most
> graphics, or sometimes no frame at all, as with a faded border. I was
> fond of Quark's "Greek Key" border. Frames can be any color, I'm not
> sure Quark frames offer that, I never tried to use it.



Have a look at http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=frame and you
can probably make your own collection of svg frames to keep in the
scrapbook

Probably not the same as Quark, but the end result is the same



Owen