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