[scribus] Prinitng from Scribus

peter linnell plinnell at scribus.info
Sun May 30 10:56:05 CEST 2010


On 5/29/10 7:43 PM, TSH wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:59:08 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday 27 May 2010 19:00:51 Ray wrote:
>>> My thanks to all those who replied to my query re printing from
>> Scribus.
>>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a suitable PDF reader,
>> other than
>>> Acrobat, for this purpose.
>>>
>>> Ned
>>
>>
>> Well I have found Adobe Acrobat Reader to be very useful. And it is
>> free. Do you have a problem with it?
> 
> 
> It's free in the sense that it doesn't cost any money to install or use, 
> and it does have some useful features. But I have found that it tends to 
> impose itself upon your system, making itself the default pdf application 
> everywhere, without asking if you want this default behaviour, or 
> necessarily giving you the option.
> 
> I prefer the relative simplicity of Evince, which comes packaged with 
> many Gnome desktops, including Ubuntu.
> 
> A more basic option is ePDF, and gv (formerly ghostview) looks 
> interesting, though I haven't used it myself.
> 
> 

Please read carefully:
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=toolbox

http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=toolbox1

There are valid long standing reasons why the team reccommends Adobe
Reader for working with Scribus pdf.

The others mentioned simply lack support for some of the more advanced
features of PDF which Scribus exports.

HTH,

Peter




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