On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:37 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:30 +0530, Roopesh P Raj wrote: > > > 2) QuarkXPress - [ Scribus (no indian language support) / Inkscape > > (not a publishing software but supports indian languages) ] > > I think Scribus was designed with Adobe Indesign in mind. I have not > seen Indesign, but I guess it should be similar to Scribus. I am not > sure whether QuarkXPress is similar to Indesign, whether the features > are similar. I suspect that they are different. I understand that > QuarkXPress is used mostly by newspapers while Indesign is supposed to > be something like a higher version of Pagemaker. > > What I came to know is that Scribus is far from being used in a real time newspaper industry, it lacks many features that proprietary counterparts offer. Thanks Roopesh There is no viable alternative for pagination to use in a real time environment. Pagemaker, and quark express have got the features of page make up, while corel draw is a vector drawing tool. Nothing of these can be used unless there is an effective application for pagination. scribus if faaaar away for using in a realtime news paper industry. A project is one to develop one pagination application in swecha here. Let us know if there are any developers who can work on it. > 7) FrontPage - ?? > 8) Macromedia Dreamweaver - ?? > 9) GIF Animation - [ plotutils, GIMP ] > 10) Macromedia Flash 5 (Introduction) - [ Gnash ] Even in animation also you can't really make animated videos but currently can only view/play them and not generate such output. You can take a position asking them to include FOSS tools also along with other applications. Even in indian express where they are using free software based solutions for editorial workflow, pagination is done using proprietary solutions.
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