Pagemaker, quark, indesign, scribus, are head-on competitors. Pagemaker came first, sits on brittle code, and is "functionally stable" since more than a decade. Quark surpasses pagemaker, thus adobe built a modern, robust, scalable app from scratch, inspired by donald knuth's TeX. Indesign is the top-end and the world-leader today. It has outpaced xpress and pagemaker in india too. Scribus is a foss approach to dtp with a pdf-for-prepress workflow. It works brilliantly in some workflows and types of projects, but is rather clumsy and inept In other projects. Some clever folks redo their design and production to fit scribus.
so, here's my suggestion. Discard the all-or-nothing approach towards scribus vs Proprietary dtp-apps. Use both, giving first priority to scribus. Where the workflow breaks, augment with proprietary. Output from both into pdf, which anyways is the final delivery format for pre-press. Give constant feedback and bug-reports to the scribus team. Hopefully, with each passing month you may move from a 20% migration to a 69% migration. Your adoption may accelerate the home-run to a 100% migration, some sunny day. regards n On 1/20/10, 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. > > Best > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > http://swatantryam.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
