On Tuesday 25 July 2006 23:56, Craig Bradney wrote: > Allen, > > > team or programmers were doing about Linux appliances, he mentioned the > > difficulties he'd had doing it in Scribus. I commiserated with him and > > decided to try it to see if it was truly as bad/difficult to understand > > as he said, which is why I'm here. > > Being a good coder, kernel or not, does not make you good at DTP. > > > I know for a fact he and his partners never wrote any notes to the > > Scribus team about their problems, they just moved on and tried DocBook, > > which they abandoned shortly before settling on a combination of AbiWord > > and OpenOffice. > > Scribus follows the typical frame based DTP ideas as Quark and InDesign do. > That is how it is and that is how it will stay. The use of something else > like a word processor is a completely different idea and way of working. > DTP != WP and never will. In any case, as Pierre-Luc has said, you don't > typically write text in a DTP app. We may have a way to go on some things > with working with our frames, but frames they are and frames they shall > stay. > > > How many others have done the same? Inquiring minds would like to know. > > Many, probably, however importantly, they had the chance via FOSS. They > didn't have to spend thousands of $/?/? on finding this out with Quark or > InDesign. > > For those that left because of issues with Scribus itself (rather than > applicable type of app), my hope is they try again at least with the final > stable version currently planned after about 1.3.10 which will be the > version we all are working towards. This may be 1.4, 1.6 (having released a > mid term 1.4) or even 2.0.. > > DTP is not for everyone, although we do not wish to exclude any particular > group. In any case, the reverse is true, in general there are > MANY "documents" that you do in DTP that are incredibly difficult or > impossible in a word processor.. and thats the way those apps will stay. I > do not wish to enforce frames on to those apps for some sorts of docs, and > for others I use Scribus. > > Regards > Craig
And don't get me wrong, I'd love to know the issues experienced, although I can guess some. Without people offering feedback, its hard to fix the issues encountered. I'm sure theres a lot of users who don't give us the good side of feedback too. 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/20060726/b856bbbd/attachment.pgp
