Well, I've just finished a non trivial document using 1.3. The document itself was 2 US letter size pages and consisted of 2578 words, quite a few tables, a couple of tiff images, a few boxes, lots of lines and other formating options.
This document is part of the technical documentation for a new product that we will be shipping in August of this year. I was interested in knowing if Scribus was capable of replacing our closed DTP solution - It can, beyond any doubt, replace it. Anyway, we sent the resulting PDF to our printing house and they had absolutely NO PROBLEM at all with the document. We are pleased and I express my gratitude to the Scribus team for this piece of fine software! I do, however, have a couple of questions revolving around development time lines: 1.) What is a realistic date for a 1.4 release? 2.) Are there plans for get-text regarding a better understanding of formating of OpenOffice/StarOffice documents? 3.) Large chunks of text contained in a text frames are challenging to deal with do to performance issues (3GHZ CPU, 1GIG RAM). What are the best methodologies to employ in order to minimize the effects associated with this issue? Will this issue be addressed 1.4 or 1.6? Best regards and thanks for the great work! Marvin Dickens
