On Thursday 15 November 2007 02:26 pm, stu seven wrote: > + hmmm... dunno if Id go so far as to call Scribus "buggy" :-)
Like James, I'm having a lot of problems adjusting from pagemaker 6.5 to Scribus. But unlike Jeffrey Place, I don't think Scribus is "buggy"; I just think it's quite different. I have an acquaintance who has never used PageMaker and he has no problems teaching me how to do what I need to do in Scribus. So I guess I'd say Scribus is "different"; in fact different enough that it's hard for this old man to adjust. > but... if you're having problems adjusting from all those high-price > programs, maybe try OpenOffice ? Its enormous in size... > works more like microsoft word... but you can use graphics > text and it does PDF output. And it's close to impossible to do useful forms design in. For example. I have a multi-column form (sorry, I don't have time to anonymize it today well enough to post it before I leave on a vacation tomorrow morning) that took me about a half hour to build in PM6.5 from a pencil sketch. I've spent at least ten hours on it in Scribus (no, I'm not blaming Scribus), and I haven't even figured out where to begin in OpenOffice.org (there's a legal reason why it's called OpenOffice.org and not OpenOffice, and the team asks everyone to always add the .org ending). So I still have an old Windows98SE system running. It's not on the 'net and it can't run any of my printers, but at least I can create PDFs in it. I would like to move on, but similarly to James, I'm stumped a lot of times in a lot of places. I'll try some of Gregory's suggestions. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
