Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Scribus, Quark or InDesign are intended to do the layout for books, > magazines, > flyers, whatever, but not for editing texts (content). If someone uses Quark > for editing a text, he's using definitely the wrong tool. > > That's a problem many people seem to have, confusing a layout software with a > text editor or a word processor. A DTP software is introduced at the end of a > workflow to combine text and graphics and to produce aesthetical and > print-ready files for the RIP. > > > I agree.
As I pointed out in my last post Scribus is a compositing and typesetting tool (ie layout). Earlier this week I contacted the local 'copy centre' to price out a 'cheap' printing job. Not only did the person I talked to have no idea what pdf's and picas were but could only except copy that were either M$ Word or Publisher files. Hmm... does that tell me that M$ has redefined DTP? and that those who err, learned Publisher (as part of M$ Office) see that app as state of the art DTP? I'm wondering if this thread has started because of 'experience' with M$ Office / Publisher? Peter
