On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 12:13, el =?iso-8859-15?q?Sism=F3grafo?=, S.L. wrote: > As Scribus is moving towards a 2.0 release, it is slowly becoming an > additional option for professionals that have to deal with big scale printing > like editors, service bureaus, and of course printers. > You won't expect a firm to switch its entire workflow just like that to a new > program, however, I decided to do some pages of our main product with > Scribus, just to give it a try. I will tell you next month how it went.
We encourage and appreciate any feedback from the level of home user to professional printer and I will look out for your information. It will be interesting to read. We have had a few printers give their feedback so far. > By the way, there is one issue I would like to have some more opinions about: > Following the subjects mentioned on the list I have noticed that there are a > lot of cuestions related to imposing (even if some people are not aware of > their cuestion being actually related to it ;-). If you have a look at the > python scripts for scribus you will also notice that quite a few of them are > also related to imposition (bleeds, crops, turning etc.). Though with the > production of pdfs imposition is not a major issue anymore, there are no apps > for linux available for doing imposition jobs. You have to do the rest of the > job on a OSX or XP box. Plus, you need a seperate application for imposition. > Furthermore, I think that the integration of imposition into an app through a > plugin offers quite a few advantages. If you do not understand what I am > talking about, have a look at the corel draw/photo paint print preview with > their options. In spite of their bad reputation and the huge amount of probs > in a production environment that these programs are famous for, I must admit > that they have done a good job on this one. > > Anyway, I do not know if there is enough demand/need for having a scribus > extension for imposing purposes. What does the folk say about that? Quite a few people would like this I think. It seems some printers are asking Scribus users for already imposed PDFs, and for the casual user it would be a help for their own printing efforts I think. If the work could be completed in Scribus it would be a good thing, although knowing many printers they would get a bit nervous having their job done for them. Anything that can help take Scribus to the professional end of the market would be a great thing. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040330/fbd1b901/attachment.pgp
