Scribus is excelent for newspapers and magazines, too. 2010/6/16 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 22:43:02 Murray Strome wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:50 AM "John Culleton" > <john at wexfordpress.com> > > wrote: > > > > Am Freitag, 21. Mai 2010 20:12:39 schrieb Jim: > > > > I need to vent. I say this with conviction > > > > that Scribus is the worst piece of software I have ever used; > and I > > > > have used a lot of software over the years. > > > > Obviously, you have not been exposed to much software if you > think this is > > the worst. What about MS Windows? > > > > > > Counter intuitive, klunky and overall frustrating to the point > of > > > > ripping the very hair out of my skull. > > > > I will agree that I found Scribus to have quite a steep learning > curve, > > especially since I had never been exposed to any Desktop > Publishing > > software before, and the whole paradigm was completely new > to me. Also, a > > lot of things behave very differently than what I would have > expected. > > Nevertheless, I find it a most powerful and useful tool. I now use > it for > > creating all of my documents, except for the most simple ones > which can be > > created by a text editor or OpenOffice (if placement of images > and > > flexibility are not important). > > > > I agree that Scribus IS a top notch product. I have seen few other > open > > source products that provide such good support and advice. > > > > > John Culleton > > > > Murray > > > > > Just for clarity, none of the words above are mine. Here is what I > said: > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > As my late father would say, there are horses for courses. I find > that Scribus is excellent for book covers and very handy for flyers, > press releases and the like. But it cannot begin to touch the > various forms of TeX for long documents with footnotes, headers > that reflect the chapter and section and the like. Only TeX and > InDesign have the excellent paragraph at a time justification of > TeX. IMO indexing is more sophisticated in TeX than any other > product short of dedicated programs like Cindex and Macrex. > > Within its range Scribus is a top notch product. But the range is a > bit narrow. > > I have heard from other Page Plus advocates before. Apparently > they like it. But I believe that if milk is free one needn't buy a cow. > I like the combination of Scribus for the formatted documents it > does so well, TeX for formal documents and long books, and Open > Office writer for saving .Doc files in more useful formats, including > LaTeX. That is what I am doing today. " > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 > http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- nome: "Jos? Antonio Meira da Rocha" tratamento: "Prof. MS." cargo: "Coordenador do Curso de Rela??es P?blicas Multim?dia" ies: "CESNORS/Universidade Federal de Santa Maria" googletalk: email: MSN: joseantoniorocha at gmail.com ICQ: 658222 Skype: "meiradarocha_jor" ve?culo: [ http://meiradarocha.jor.br ] fone: (55) 9651-0686 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100616/0441efe0/attachment.htm>
