Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:33, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page > layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is > at http://www.scribus.net/. > > I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread Tim Michelsen
You can use Srcibus for Invitations or (more intersting for publishers) to design cover pages for books and thesis work. I used Inkscape for my cover page since I was not familiar with Scribus. While working on another document I learned a bit more. The PDF generation is really good. The user

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread John Kane
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely differ

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: > Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and > Scribus? LyX does not do page layout (thank goodness). Scribus does not do math. Cheers, Alan Isaac

LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Thanks SteveT