Quoting "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org>: > I'm also new. I just installed the 0.9.8 beta and came across the same > issue on Red Hat 8.0. I'm going to try 0.8 next.
Let us know how that goes. > BTW, what distro is Scribus largely developed on? Debian? No idea. SuSe, perhaps? > > InDesign is the last reason I haven't switched to Linux 100%. > > Tell Adobe. Everytime you think something like that, remember tell the > vendor! You'd be surprised how much it matters! > > If they get enough requests, they've got to port it. Unlike Intuit they > don't have a "we'll crush you if you port to Linux" threat from > Microsoft (like Intuit does from Microsoft on Quicken/Quickbooks, > despite the 2M+ requests for ports). Adobe is fairly independent from > Microsoft. They had a highly-experimental port of Framemaker a while back. Based on their results, they decided not to do a full-scale port any time soon. Besides, where possible, I want to use only GPL software. Scribus is the last piece of the puzzle for me. Or will be. > Until then, I'm getting an iBook because of things like Adobe InDesign > and Macromedia Dreamweaver. But even Macromedia ported its > server/development software (e.g., ColdFusion) to Linux out of demand. > Hopefully the desktop software will get their shortly too. I use Zope (sometimes called "what Cold Fusion wants to be when it grows up" :) ). I have no use for WYSIWYG HTML editors, which is strange, since I'm a very visual person. > [ There isn't a good HTML "WYSIWYM + Content Manager" app for Linux > either, although several SourceForge projects are working on one. You > either have WYSIWYM (e.g., Mozilla Composer) or non-WYSIWYM Content > Managers (e.g., Quanta, Bluefish, etc...) ] Zope + Plone is a pretty serious thing. Granted, it takes a while to climb the learning curve, but the new Plone installer helps a lot there. Check out plone.org. But, no, it's not WYSIWYG. It can be used with apps that are, however. > If you only need a "typeset" program instead of a DTP app, check out > LyX: http://www.lyx.org > > The new 1.3.0 is finally available in a [near-]complete Qt version. > I've used it to write articles and books. It uses ~25 year-old LaTeX as > its "base language." It also produces "feature rich" PDFs _natively_ > (including all those bookmarks, hypereferences, etc... all from its TeX > markup). That's the power of TeX underneath. But I do need DTP. I need tight control over my text. I have an appreciation for what LyX does, it's just not what I need. What I need is to solve the font issues with Scribus. Steve == http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=603
