Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Thursday 2004-04-01 at 07:43 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
>
> For Carlos, you need to catch up with the times.  Scribus provides you
> with a simple, clean interface for page layout with many features,
> including SVG support, color separation & PDF output to take to
> commercial offset printing companies.  As John points out, the control
> it gives the user in putting together everything from a single page to
> a book or PDF presentation is unmatched and Scribus gives you that,
> right now!  It's worth a look, if you need or do much of this type of
> work.  Many have been waiting for a good DTP program for Linux to yet
> have another excuse to break from those other operating systems and
> Scribus gives you that.  ;o)

But you see, when I write a document I do not want to bother with
fine setting every page. I just want to use a predefined style (or create
my own), chose the type of paragraph from a list, and let the program
bother about producing good output without bothering me.

Now and then, I might want to fine tune the results - but what I do,
usually, is adjust the style definition, not even the document.

There are uses for desktop publishing programs, but I haven't found them;
scribus is probably a good program - but not for me, that is.



-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson