My suggestion: stay with Indesign for the moment and try Scribus at a later point.. This will save you a lot of nerves... Martin
Roberto schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm about to start a single-columned 176-page book project as a > free-lance job for a publishing house and I'm considering using Scribus > instead of Indesign CS2 for the task. This would be my first time so I'm > a little afraid. > I know you guys are working hard to make Scribus a first-class app and > you deserve compliments for what's been done so far. > However, following the mailing list for quite some time, I know not > everything is ready or working as it should. For instance, I've seen > many people complain about slowness when dealing with much text, sudden > crashes, data loss and unexpected results from pdfs created. > I know most of these errors happen in the development versions. But the > stable branch (1.2.x) misses so many features now that it just doesn't > seem worth using anymore. And it's also affected by slowness with much > text, as reported by some users. > I know the development branch has been forked to allow a more "stable" > development version, which now is 1.3.3.3. > So here is my doubt. > Just how stable is this version for a project like this? > I'm so willing to switch from commercial to open source software. > What do you people suggest? Is it the time to migrate? > I don't have much time to lay out the book, around 3 days. So there's > not much time for surprises and I can't disappoint my client. > > Thank you for your attention. > > Roberto. -- =============================== |Phil 1:6 God began to do a | |good work in you. And I am | |sure that he will keep on | |doing it until he has | |finished it. He will keep | |on until the day Jesus Christ| |comes again. | ===============================
