Am Mittwoch, 25. Mai 2005 05:16 schrieb frank gaude': > > GIMP and Inkscape are > > marching at an impressive pace, but when it comes to printing, they > > are useless without scribus and/or Photoshop and Acrobat. > > As much as I admire the progress of FOSS, there are still lots of > > pieces to add to a seamless Open Source publishing workflow (think > > about job tickets, software like pitstop etc.)
Quark, PageStream, Viva and other applications also take PhotoShop as Standard; PitStop, too - colourspace indication for example works just with PhotoShop-images. Why not using PhotoShop (which runs in Version 6 and 7 with CrossOver under Linux, too), when it comes to images meant for printing. For RGB-Images Gimp is already ok, for CMYK perhaps some day). > Even now Adobe has > raised the bar so high, with CS2 and Bridge between InDesign, Photoshop > and their other programs, that others will likely never catch up. Nevertheless there are biotopes for other applications as well, if there is good (preferentially printed) documentation, a vivid community and a good, usable interface. Scribus is already very usable for suitable projects. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht
