i know this may sound strange, but openoffice.org has fantastic pagination features, and a high-quality typesetting engine that is perhaps inspired by donald knuth's TeX. you may do complete multi-column layouts with embedded pictures and complex stylesheets in openoffice.org, in local languages. just poke around and you'll find it simpler.
though i contributed one of the first tutorials to scribus, and use both scribus, inkscape, gimp, F-spot, agave, in my regular and professional use, would not recommend inkscape for multi-page newspaper workflows, for several reasons. finally, exert utmost care while adopting foss in your workflow. you'll find what eventually breaks it is not the editorial, but the artworks from advertising, usually handed over at the last minute in often non-standard formats and with production-complications. also, a newspaper workflow is quite demanding and is critical on meeting deadlines. thus, finding, motivating, and orienting staff to risk a daily workflow on FOSS tools is quite challenging. i always recommend people start with a weekend newspaper edition, or a magazine, or even a book, before taking on a daily newspaper. HTH regards niyam _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
