[scribus] Scribus

[José Antonio Rocha]

Scribus is excelent for newspapers and magazines, too.

2010/6/16 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>

> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 22:43:02 Murray Strome wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:50 AM "John Culleton"
> <john at wexfordpress.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Am Freitag, 21. Mai 2010 20:12:39 schrieb Jim:
> > > > I need to vent. I say this with conviction
> > > > that Scribus is the worst piece of software I have ever used;
> and I
> > > > have used a lot of software over the years.
> >
> > Obviously, you have not been exposed to much software if you
> think this is
> > the worst. What about MS Windows?
> >
> > > > Counter intuitive, klunky and overall frustrating to the point
> of
> > > > ripping the very hair out of my skull.
> >
> > I will agree that I found Scribus to have quite a steep learning
> curve,
> > especially since I had never been exposed to any Desktop
> Publishing
> > software before, and the whole paradigm was completely new
> to me. Also, a
> > lot of things behave very differently than what I would have
> expected.
> > Nevertheless, I find it a most powerful and useful tool. I now use
> it for
> > creating all of my documents, except for the most simple ones
> which can be
> > created by a text editor or OpenOffice (if placement of images
> and
> > flexibility are not important).
> >
> > I agree that Scribus IS a top notch product. I have seen few other
> open
> > source products that provide such good support and advice.
> >
> > > John Culleton
> >
> > Murray
> >
>
>
> Just for clarity, none of the words above are mine.  Here is what I
> said:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> As my late father would say, there are horses for courses. I find
> that Scribus is excellent for book covers and very handy for flyers,
> press releases and the like. But it cannot begin to touch the
> various forms of TeX for long documents with footnotes,  headers
> that reflect the chapter and section and the like. Only TeX and
> InDesign have the excellent paragraph at a time justification of
> TeX. IMO indexing is more sophisticated in TeX than any other
> product short of dedicated programs like Cindex and Macrex.
>
> Within its range Scribus is a top notch product.  But the range is a
> bit narrow.
>
> I have heard from other Page Plus advocates before. Apparently
> they like it. But I believe that if milk is free one needn't buy a cow.
> I like the combination of Scribus for the formatted documents it
> does so well, TeX for formal documents and long books, and Open
> Office writer for saving .Doc files in more useful formats, including
> LaTeX. That is what I am doing today. "
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> John Culleton
> Wexford Press
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