On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:45, Pueblo Native wrote: > While not completely disagreeing with you, I think there are a couple of > levels between professional publisher and home user. The most common > one I would think of is a person who runs a small newsletter for an > organization or club of some sort. They don't need _all_ the features > of an InDesign, but they would like the publication to come off a little > more professionally. Another group might be people that run a > professional document, but infrequently (an annual or semi-annual > report) and their primary business is not publishing. I really wouldn't > want to shell out close to a grand for a program I use very infrequently.
This is a long thread about something that seems to me to be a non-issue. Scribus does what you specify here, and is also intended for pro-am work where you hand things off to printers. It is cross-platform, handles PDFs to a very high standard, and is intended to work closely with Inkscape for non-photo graphics. Is there any reason why the OP, after having looked at it, is casting around (almost perversely, one might say) for something else? Scribus is very easy to use (my 13-year old found his way around it easily, and I can assure you I found it a lot easier than Microsoft Publisher), but has also been the basis for "proper" publishing work (there was a series in Linux Magazine last year from someone who was using it to publish a community newspaper in Belfast). So instead of spending time looking at "alternatives" which are not going to be as good, the OP would be better advised, IMO, to start experimenting with Scribus. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
