On Wednesday 04 May 2005 04:46, Marvin Dickens wrote: > 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?
This year, although we expect to at some point be able to say that while 1.3.X (where X is yet unknown) is still a development release, that many people are using it for production work and people can probably start to move over once it starts to settle down. > 2.) Are there plans for get-text regarding a better understanding of > formating of OpenOffice/StarOffice documents? Yes. > 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? 1.3.x. > Best regards and thanks for the great work! Glad it worked out. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050504/cafc256b/attachment.pgp
