On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 11:29 -0700, frank gaude' wrote: > What is the main purpose of Scribus, i.e., what area of DTP, page > layout, newsletters, books, etc., is it being pointed?
I'm not sure there's really a particular "purpose" that Scribus is aimed at / for . I know various contributors have their own focuses and viewpoints, though - for example, I have a real interest in more text heavy documents, automation, collaboration, and newspaper layouts. Currently I think Scribus is better at documents that are less text centric - so more fliers, advertisments, brochures, etc than technical papers and books. It's also rather good at semi-automated document generation - the sort of thing you can automatically lay out to a point but need the human touch to finish off. That's my view of the current state, though - things are hopping along nicely and each improvement to Scribus makes something easier, faster, or nicer to do. Personally, I have a strong interest in being able to do newspaper layouts with Scribus quickly and efficiently, with good workflow and versioning support - eventually. > To me programs such as PageMaker became dead at about the time InDesign > 1.5 was released some years back, no longer supported by Adobe. It's FrameMaker that I wish hadn't gone the way of the dodo. I've used it enough now to know how much better off we would've been if that's what word processors had become instead of the ghastly mess that they are these days. -- Craig Ringer
