Thank you for that insight, Niyam. regards Sasi
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:42 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > 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 > -- 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
