On 27 Jul 2004 13:24:50 +0530, Sudhir Gandotra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.grasshopperllc.com/ > http://www.grasshopperllc.com/Secure/downloads.html > GTK-based Professional, Full-Featured DTP is Here > Guest writes "Scribus is great, but PageStream is a full-featured > desktop publishing program and a true legend in the DTP industry. It is > extremely mature, as it first started in the AtariST platform (and later > Amiga) in 1986! I[snip]
thanks sudhir for that post. i have seen that post earlier on the scribus mailing list. pagestream is commercialware, scribus is gpl. if you want mature dtp packages, even on gnulinux, you can find a few more. i remember seeing one that was ported in from sgi, but i can't seem to relocate it. whatever. the killer feature these days, for me, in software, is not TECHNICAL FEATURES, but GPL, or a similar license. that's the revolution of gnulinux, not it being yet another *nix. besides, if somebody does wanna use a commercialware, i could remember some of the best and far more mature dtp apps, like quark, indesign. these simply rock! the typography features in these outclass anything out there, and anything ever created even by earlier, legacy, and multi-million dollar solutions of the past. i know. i have researched this thoroughly. pagestream does have its features, it price, its gnulinux-compatibility, its availability. if it fits someone's purpose (and am sure it does) then am glad they have this choice. it won't be my choice, until they gpl it. :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
