On Friday 01 October 2004 18:45, el Sism?grafo, S.L. wrote: > Hi, > I am writing this because there is almost every day somebody on the list > asking about the speed issue. > > I have been considering layouting some pages of our main product with > Scribus (at the moment we use Quark Express) but there are two reasons that > put us off the idea after a couple of tryouts. The first reason is the > missing of character styles (which for a trial go wouldn't have been a > major problem) and the second and main reason is the extremely slow text > editing. (Of course all text comes in as text files from our article > writers).
Character styles, and inheritable styles (styles based on other styles) are planned for 1.3. > The typical work of a layouter starts off with a rough text cleaning (white > spaces, typos, etc.) after which a lot of copy, paste, rearrange, mark-up > (applying styles) etc. is done. Layouting a complex three page article can > take even a skilled layouter up to three hours (including the time spend > with preparing the images) provided that it is _him_ who sets the speed of > work (and layouter can be mindbogglingly fast...). Layout is often a matter > of try and error - the faster you try the faster you may discard, the > faster you will get what you want. If in the process of layouting the > program is the pace setter, something is wrong. > > At the moment we use Scribus for imposing sheets because of its excellent > pdf support, no real layout work is done with it. > > The feature set Scribus has right now is brillant not to speak of the > excellent output, the only thing I can think of that's missing is Character > Styles. For this reason the improvement of speed anounced for the 1.3 > should get the main attention (I would even say it's worth to get the only > attention). The canvas needs its rewrite, and then we will see how things go... > P.S. is there a skript repository I can send my skripts to? You can upload them to www.scribus.net as a suggested download. Craig
