> Quark 4 was excessively crashy from day one. Quark was aware of this and > released anyway. The problem did not go away until nearly two years > later with the release of XPress 4.1. Upgrading just that far would save > you loads of headaches.
I wish. We're using Quark 4.1.1 already. I'll grant that it was an improvement, but it's still pretty shocking. The PDF import plugin (yes, plugin - no native PDF support) may be the culprit, since we've been doing a bit better since we removed that and instead started using Acrobat to conver PDFs to EPS files. > As for Scribus on LTSP machines or remoteX, that sounds like a real > winner with the right network. I think so. The low per-user / per-workstation cost would be a shocking turnaround from the current DTP situation. Of course, things like a version of Photoshop for Linux would really be needed... > VNC might be even better if you've > already got a large collection of Windows machines. You'd be much better off with Cygwin's XFree86 IMHO. VNC is ugly and slow, and /really/ not the sort of thing I'd want to do DTP with. > The advantage of > remoteX is that newer X servers can pass everything through SSH for > security. I know :-) You can do it with VNC too of course, as I have to do when doing admin on our NT4 box remotely, but it ain't fun.
