On Thursday 10 February 2011 15:55:55 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 13:43 +0530, steve wrote: > > > I know what they say - but can they do professional quality > > > colour separations? > > > > Although I do not know anything about DTP. I have heard good > > things about > > scribus. I found it just a little bit perturbing that you replied > > back with a > > one word `no` answer without mentioning scribus after making the > > assumption that > > the OP was indeed looking for `professional quality colour > > separations` -- what > > if the OP's primary objective is just page layout (which I > > believe scribus > > handles rather well) and is quite happy with the quality of > > `colour separation` > > it offers ? > > sorry for being abrupt - but this has come up several times on this > list and other lists and I am fed up with the discussion. I ran a > printing press for several years and used to know what I was > talking about - it is 6 years since I closed it, so maybe things > have changed since then. Two points I have to make:
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Impose.html Looks like it can do quite complex impositions. The licence is unclear. One will have to download and check the relevant files. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
