I've never used InDesign and I'm not enough of a publishing/layout person to properly evaluate products like this.
I have read a couple of comparison writeups online. One commented that it was surprisingly good on features and it probably wouldn't take too long for an InDesign user to come to terms with. There was a comment about a couple of functions being odd to locate. There is a scribus wiki and a fair bit of tutorial stuff about. It's free, so might be worth a look. I'm not sure if it offers anything over InDesign if you already have it though. ----- Original Message ----- From: Andre Duszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 4:15:12 PM GMT+1000 Australia/Sydney Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Avoiding Virus infections Wondering Neil if you've played with both InDesign and Scribus, and could comment ? I currently use InDesign but am intrigued with these new developments... Andre. --------- Neil McAliece wrote: > OO isn't really a page layout/publishing program though. > > Scribus does do pdf export nicely too though. Also open source & multi > platform. > > Lots of nice software in the open source world. > > Scribus is getting some favorable comparisons with Quark and Adobe InDesign > > Neil > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 3:22:24 PM GMT+1000 Australia/Sydney > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Avoiding Virus infections > > Neil McAliece wrote: >> Our division newsletter is no longer done in publisher. It's on an older >> version of Quark now. (which I don't know much about). >> >> I'm curious about the Windows native installer for Scribus (I have had a >> quick play with Scribus on Linux). >> >> http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=2&page=1 >> >> The person creating our newsletter has long been familiar with Quark, so we >> might stay with that unless both her and I find some spare time to burn one >> day :) >> >> Everyone has the ability to generate pdfs through a SAMBA print process at >> both of our offices. Postscript print job converted to pdf and saved to a >> network share for pickup (with a script that clears that directory nightly). >> >> I don't think anyone attempts to email .pub files here anymore. I think some >> of our training certificates are still created with it. > > > open office will export as pdf's too > works for me > > ash > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- ------------------------- Andre Duszynski Research Officer Discipline of General Practice University of Adelaide Adelaide SA 5005 P: 08 8303 6269 F: 08 8303 3511 W: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/health/gp/ ------------------------- Think before you print !! ------------------------- CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
