On 24 May 2013, at 16:15, john Culleton wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2013 12:24:48 +0100 > Nicola Griffin <nickigriffin at mac.com> wrote: > >> Catching up on past Scribus posts having been immersed in Scribus >> designing a festival programme. >> >> So now I realise this really does affect me, not for DTP but I use >> Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Was planning to upgrade my MacBook. >> There's no way I could justify paying a monthly fee for a plan. >> >> So Open Source. Where next for web design and graphics? >> >> Best >> >> Nicki Griffin >> >>> > For graphics Inkscape (Vector) and Gimp (bitmap, photos) > For book covers and fancy text layouts in multipage documents Scribus. > For most book interiors some form of TeX. I use pdftex for novels, > Context for technical books, LaTeX rarely and when used preferably using > the memoir class. There is just too much missing from Scribus for book > interiors IMO except for coffee table books. Others may have more > success. > > To convert from RGB model documents to CMYK model for bitmaps I use > ImageMagick, a very powerful command line program. > To preserve the vector nature of Inkscape outputs and > convert to CMYK I am planning to use Scribus as a post processor. > > Web design can be done in Inkscape producing an svg file which most > browsers can handle. Or you can use Bluefish and produce html. The old > Quanta plus is no more, being replaced by a much inferior product with > the same name. I actually code my pages in a editor called Gvim which > will highlight key words and brace pairs etc. for html and various > programming languages as well. But I was a programmer in my misspent > youth so working at the code level is OK by me. > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > Free list of books for self-publishers: > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html > PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > Thanks very much John. I'll have a look at those. I have no programming experience myself so I suspect I'm going to miss the 'all-in' aspects of Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Nicki Griffin
