Am Montag, 4. September 2006 23:41 schrieb Craig Bradney: > On Monday 04 September 2006 23:25, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Am Montag, 4. September 2006 22:54 schrieb Craig Bradney: > > > On Monday 04 September 2006 21:58, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: > > > > Dnia poniedzia?ek, 4 wrze?nia 2006 19:04, Gregory Pittman napisa?: > > > > > > those of you who can get hold of c't magazine and can read German > > > > > > might be interested in the current issue (19/2006). It contains a > > > > > > four page Scribus tutorial on the production of photo books and > > > > > > posters (pp. 110-113). Scribus 1.3.3.3 for Win32 and Linux is > > > > > > shipped on a CD-ROM which also contains the tutorial files. The > > > > > > CD-ROM also offers a collection of 670 free fonts. Haven't > > > > > > checked the quality, though. > > > > > > > > > > I don't think you can worry so much about the quality of the > > > > > review. > > > > > > > > AFAIU Christoph was worrying about quality of attached fonts, not > > > > review itself :) > > > > > > They also got the fact wrong that pdflib.cpp from Scribus does not > > > relate at all to the PDFLib external library. > > > > > > Craig > > > > Be that as it may, the comments in the tutorial were quite positive. What > > the author criticised is well known here (tables, non-editable frames in > > master pages, missing drop shadows for frames), but he explained the > > workarounds. He also mentioned Scribus' ability to have different page > > formats in one document (in contrast to QXP and ID). > > Luckily, those missing things will all arrive in 1.3.x. > > > All things considered, this is very good. I mean, _four_ pages in c't, > > plus a small article somewhere else in the issue I mentioned. A lot of > > companies would gladly pay tons of money for that ... > > For sure. I'll be buying it tomorrow. > > Craig
Then I hope you'll enjoy the following (translated): "The layout program Scribus has [...] become one of the flagships of Open Source." :) Christoph
