John Kershaw wrote: > Nor am I talking about slavishly following Quark/ID > interface/method/whatever. But Quark stole the market from Aldus > because it 'fitted' more closely how people expected things to work. > Quark, after a lot of use, feels like hand in glove. You think it, > you do it. It mimics how you would do stuff if you were working with > paper cutouts on a real pasteboard. That's why people like it. Golly, > they must do to learn all the myriad shortcuts! I'm saying there are > things that Quark/ID do right - there's a reason people spend all > that cash purchasing them. (Which is not to say there aren't lots of > things that should be avoided).
This may be true at a certain time. But all designstudios I know does not spend a single paid minute to evalute things. They use Quark, because "everybody" uses it. They don't pay their employees to learn a new programm, they don't pay freelancers to learn a new programm when they come in to help out. It is the same thing as with M$Office. They all use word, because all use word even if word regulary killed their work when the deadline comes near. I see designers restart their Mac ten times a day and more, because Quark segfaults or the network was down or whatever. They don't get their work done because their tools are worse than windows apps from M$. I think that we will see a lot of improvements in scribus in the near future, I hope that scribus will not simply follow the Quark or Indesign path but the best path to achieve your aim: making a terrfic artwork in the most intuitive _and_ efficient way. And therefore I think all hints from users of other programs are more than welcome. juh -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050127/707866ef/attachment.pgp
