I'd seen the word ugly used a bit when describing Scribus on the Mac. Think it has to do with Scribus and X11 on the Mac, but not sure.
I didn't think it looked particularly ugly in Ubuntu, but there are apparently some issues with some Debian based distros needing some post install things to be done with fonts and a few other things. ( I did get a font substitution dialog when opening the newsletter template) Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Machell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 11:40:04 PM GMT+1000 Australia/Sydney Subject: Scribus, Open source DTP (was Re: [GPCG_TALK] Avoiding Virus infections) On 01/12/2006, at 3:43 PM, Neil McAliece wrote: > I'm not sure if it offers anything over InDesign if you already > have it though. Well most would have a pirated copy of Indesign because of its price. Doing it legally should be a real incentive. Also, the overwhelming amount of support available from the open source community can't be matched by any commercial product. Indesign isn't exactly intuitive. Scribus actually seems easier to me, although the Mac installation needs some work if the graphics community is going to embrace it. Compared to bitmap or vector editors, DTP is dead easy to learn, and there's not that much to the technical side of it - insert image, insert text frame, choose font, move frames around, do a little filtering. Almost the whole DTP community swapped from Quark or Pagemaker to Indesign overnight, so the Photoshop / Gimp argument doesn't really apply at this scale - no-one spent years learning how to use a DTP programme. regards, Peter. _______________________________________________ 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
