On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 bulk at katskave.com wrote: > > > Anyone tried out passepartout, the Open Source Desktop Publishing > > application for the X Windows environment? How does this compare with > > Scribus? > > Well, after reading the website, I have no desire to try it, honestly. > It seems to say that I need to write everything in XML by hand. > (although maybe the importing code could be tweaked to be used in > Scribus to allow Scribus to import XML?) If I'm going to bother doing > that, I might as well learn LaTeX. :)
I just packaged it for pkgsrc-wip. It does have a graphical interface for laying out objects. You do not have to do XML by hand. It looks interesting to me. I will have to spend some time with it. (I am running over X over a DSL connection -- this is too slow ...) Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
