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TrialOfFire points out MadPenguin's review (with helpful screenshots) of Scribus 1.1.6, which attempts to answer "what is Scribus really like? Can anyone just pick it up and use it? Is it really as powerful as they say it is? And does it live up to the hype surrounding it?"
who recently proclaimed Scribus to be one of "Free Software's Killer Applications"
Oh yes yes sure... but when will they learn? the *only* free software killer application is here. And I should know, it very nearly killed me.
Oh and by the way, I'm sure it can do desktop publishing too some way or another...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Does it answer this one?
/. post, too.
What the hell is it?
Might have been nice to mention that in the
Article's 4 minutes old and madpenguin has already seen the slashdot effect.
Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed "nucular" accelerator on his back.
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"what is Scribus really like?"
What about the more common question: "what is Scribus"? The uninformative summary doesn't help; neither does the slashdotted site.
Here's a quick review talking about the enhancements since the last version.
Spoken like a man who's never had to use Quark Xpress.
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Even the google cache copy seems inaccessible.. Here is the Freshmeat Project Page for Scribus 1.1.6, and I also have a link to the home page
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...if it included a good text editor.
They added JPEG support in this version. Time to close down the project.
According to this review the usability of this product is only 2 stars out of 5. Seems like poor usability and linux-based products will go hand in hand for a long time.
:)
Oh it sounds like it's a perfect drop-in replacement for QuarkXPress
For all its excellence with output (and when I used it, it worked well) Quark is certainly not an example of brilliant, or even good UI design. Takes a lot of time and a lot of knowledge of the little hidden and non-obvious keycommands to use well.
Will not compile on GCC 2.95.. That really limits its use a lot doesnt it?
I used Scribus about a year ago to produce a professional looking poster for a conference. At the time, it was a very powerful program with a few small quirks. I would recommend it to anybody somewhat familiar with DTP.
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In all of the languages that I can understand, words have vowels in them.
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Scribus appears to be a decent desktop publishing tool. I've installed it but personally I prefer to use the OOo drawing tool for mockups, and our graphist uses QuarkXpress for the final designs.
The point is that printshops accept files only with specific formats, namely with CMYK color separation, the appropriate resolution, and in "well-known" file formats: Quark, Illustrator, et al.
A Linux desktop publishing program that can product color-separated files in the correct format can be a dog to learn and use, that'd be fine! As long as it can produce print-ready files, a painful learning curve is not an issue.
The UI is not the key. Business usefulness is the key.
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Ok, so i get its a page layout program.
how does it integrate with gimp? (maybe its not necessary... but dunno)
"Scribus is a Page Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe® InDesign, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.
With the release of Scribus 1.1.6, Linux and Unix desktop users have a user friendly, but powerful Desktop Publishing application capable of a broad set of DTP needs. Started with humble beginnings as a Python program to make menus, Scribus has been transformed into a young but rapidly maturing DTP application with numerous professional features, as well as some unique capabilities. Already, in use from everything to club newsletters to small newspaper production to animated interactive PDF presentations a la Power point. or Open Office Impress. Other uses are creating corporate stationery and brochures, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment."
DeskTop Publishing.
What about "rhythm"?
(Note: I'm not complaining, just hoping aloud =)
Scribus is an excellent application. I could easily put it in the same category as Mozilla Firefox, XEmacs, GIMP, Blender, Audacity and Eclipse as an example of well-engineered open source application that is good enough to get any real work done.
Scribus is, however, a little bit of a quirk-express. The user interface is not yet completely free of small things that tend to be annoying. For one thing, it's slow (though nowhere near as slow as some pre-1.0 versions - and Freetype integration has greatly helped with this too, with faster and better-looking font rendering) and some details lag behind (the property dialog could use some really heavy improvements).
I think the UI situation is just similar to GIMP 1.0 - it took until 1.2 until the UI was really good and until 2.0 until it was superb. Yet, like GIMP 1.0, it's completely usable for what it's designed for!
So, in conclusion, I'll be hoping that we'll get into the "GIMP 1.2" level soon what comes to the UI. It is really good as it is right now, though.
46 comments and half of them asking what in the hell IS Scribus. I'd say that most people don't care if it can do what it says
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Well that's two words but I'll let you off.
The sense of impending doom from finals has had a strange effect on me and now I'm feeling absurdly belligerent.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Either he would consider 'y' a vowel, or doesn't understand english. Besides, 'y' is often a vowel. Next time, try 'cwm'.
page.cpp: In member function `void Page::LoadPict(QString, int)':
page.cpp:8599: `unlink' undeclared (first use this function)
page.cpp:8599: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [page.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/self/scribus-1.1.6/scribus'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/self/scribus-1.1.6/scribus'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/self/scribus-1.1.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2
How appropriate! Seeing the website is broken via slasdotting - a post nuke website, so to speak.
Scribus looks like an okay program, and I'm sure that for printing office types who have the time to learn to use it properly it does a fine job. However there's an opportunity to make it a real "killer app" for far more people. Consider Microsoft Publisher. It's an okay sort of program - what makes it very useful for a lot of people is the vast template library which makes it very easy to get 90% of the way towards (say) a double-sided 3-panel sales brochure in about 5 minutes, requiring only that the default background is changed and perhaps some minor details altered. The templates are even themeable.
There seems to be nothing like this at all for scribus (in fact, by and large the range of templates available for OS office applications is pretty woeful). We really ought to get on top of this as a priority; otherwise MS Office will still have a massive lead in terms of useability to Joe Officeworker.
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'cwm' isn't really an exception, is it's a borrowed word from Welsh, where w is a vowel. See also this interesting mailing list post.
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Well let me correct that. I've spent a little bit of time trying to learn ancient Egyptian and it has no vowels. But then again, my knowledge of Egyptian is so limited that I can hardly say I "understand" it.
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What's interesting is that Sodipodi (that other vector drawing program) means "to scribble" in Estonian.
Any good printshop can take and print a PDF. They can even tweak the colours if it is needed.
See my journal, I write things there
For all its excellence with output (and when I used it, it worked well) Quark is certainly not an example of brilliant, or even good UI design.
QuarkXpress is the best layout programme ever. It is difficult to learn, but once you learn it, using it is simplicity itself. Its power is astonishing. It is ouput second to none. Anyone who remembers the thrill of being able to set the background color to none of an item knows why QuarkXpress is so beloved.
It is extensible in ways and with third pary support that other programs only dream about. Look at "La Redout" and the other 4 inch thick catalogues. They are all produced with Quark, via an extension that connects your Xpress file with your huge database of catalogue items, including photos prices and everything else. That is sex.
Quark Xpress is like Autocad. Autocad is not number one without reason, and it too has a learning curve as steep as the Matterhorn. Once you master it though, you can build anything based on its output, from Beyblades to the replacement for the Twin Towers.
Some things in life are hard, and they are worth mastering if you love your art, in the case of Quark Xpress, setting type.
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You obviously don't understand English then. As far as I can see, the word 'rhythm' has no vowels.
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The main power of Quark Express is in its shortcuts. Experienced DTP users can set up a page blazingly fast, and in less than 5mins the have a full doc setup through mostly keystrokes. That`s the main reason why a lot of them whine when the shortcuts change between versions, and that`s why more than a lot stick with older versions of a program if the newer ones have "changed stuff" (Quark5 being a prime example, as far as they tell me). For a different program to have success in this field, there mustn`t exist only a nice interface but a similarity with the most well known "players". How different is it from Quark and Pagemaker? Can it be configured to work in a similar way? Its widgets are not its main power, proper seperations, SMYC and RGB support, similarity to other apps are what can make it succesfull.
Link: Scribus Screen Shot Gallery
But y is a vowel. In Old English it was pronounced like the Greek letter upsilon. To make this sound, make a tight O with your lips and try to make a sound like the i in machine. If you do it right you'll end up with something that sounds almost, but not quite like a U. Eventually y started to be used as a consonant in some words, though it is still used as a vowel in some words even though it no longer has a distinct sound of its own.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
But the fact that parent made (parent never said Quark sucks, and I don't either), UI sucks still remains.
If software has long learning curve, then it has bad UI, simple and well made GUI leads user to faster learning curve. Well Quark is far from that example.
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Try Czech:
Strc prst skrz krk (Czech sentence: "Put your finger through your throat")
from http://www2.iap.fr/users/esposito/words.html
Czech is still on my to-do list. When I was in Prague I only got as far as "Mluvite anglickey?"
Hmm, did I remember the spelling correctly?
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
scfonts_ttf.cpp: In member function `virtual bool Foi_ttf::ReadMetrics()':
scfonts_ttf.cpp:86: `FT_GLYPH_FORMAT_PLOTTER' undeclared (first use this
function)
scfonts_ttf.cpp:86: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [scfonts_ttf.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/self/Scribus/scribus'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/self/Scribus/scribus'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/self/Scribus'
make: *** [all] Error 2
<sigh>
Xpress is easy enough, thats my point. Putting money into GUI simplification so that people who dont like to read can use Quark is a total waste of money for them. Their prorities are (were) the port to OSX and stability.
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For those of us Gnome diehards, there's Passepartout. Since I've no use for DTP, I've no idea if it is, or has the potential to be, anywhere as good as Scribus.
Also, bad thing the Gnome LyX frontend stalled...
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OSX: yes, I agree
stability: ????? bwaaahaahahahaha
C'mon last stable was 4.11. 5 never was finished when they already released 6, (yes I agree OSX was the reason) and 6 is not even near to be stable (don't know on OSX though)
Putting money into GUI simplification... waste
Yes, that's what they think. But that and usability with more features (and price) is the sole reason why InDesign is taking Quarks share in such ammount.
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The thrill of transparency? Mmmhmm. You sound like a tough critic.
And Autocad? What is Autocad best at anymore? It has been almost totally displaced in architecture years ago and if you're doing physical simulations in Autocad. Hmm. This aint 1985 bud.
Every time there is a story linking to MadPenguin, it never loads. You would think after the first couple stories, they would get their act together to compensate for the /. effect.
So stop linking to MadPenguin! If they cant straighten out their connection issues, I'm certainly not going to take them seriously about anything they publish.
Having never used DTP software before, I was able to create a professional-looking propaganda article, which I distributed around campus, in fifteen minutes using Scribus.
I feel justified in giving it a usability of only 2 stars out of 5, as the user interface just isn't intuitive enough.
Scribus is a desktop publishing program for Unix and Linux which has been gathering momentum recently. SuSe now proudly proclaim that with SuSe 9.1, Professional layouts can be prepared with the desktop publishing application Scribus. Scribus is also recieving critical acclaim from other big open source quarters such as Newsforge who recently proclaimed Scribus to be one of Free Software's Killer Applications.
ut what is Scribus really like? Can anyone just pick it up and use it? Is it really as powerful as they say it is? And does it live up to the hype surrounding it?
About ScribusScribus is a desktop publishing program for Unix and Linux. It is built with the Qt libraries and is run natively in the KDE desktop environment. Scribus is published under the Gpl and is similar to similar to Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. Scribus has an unusually small development team and is mostly the work of a German programmer called Franz Schmid. The Scribus team are positioning the program as an easy to use DTP publishing program for the Linux and Unix operating systems with support available for professional publishing features. These professional publishing features include:
EPS and PDF import/export
Complete ICC colour management
Font embedding and sub-setting in both postscript and PDF exportIn addition to this Scribus also provides:
As can be seen Scribus certainly isn't devoid of features, and there are many others in the program which I haven't described above. All in all, Scribus is a fairly feature rich program and more features such as importing from Microsoft Office and OO.org are expected in future releases. Installation of Scribus
I installed Scribus by going to the download section of the Scribus homepage in order to obtain the latest version which at this moment in time is 1.1.6. There are several different methods of installation available, including source and prepackaged files. Prepackaged files are available in the form of RPMs for Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1 and SuSe 9, Deb files are also available for Debian users.
Since I'm using Fedora Core 1 I downloaded the RPM from the site and installed it. I used the Scribus website instead of a Fedora Yum repository as I have only been able to find out of date versions of Scribus on them. When installing the RPM I did encounter a dependency issue in which I needed to install a program called
Downloaded Scribus 1.1.6 and tried to install it...
e : *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:-/
Maybe you should know, that:
* It depends on libart, although the documentation says, you only need a C++ Compiler and Qt 3.2.1. I don't know where you can get a stable libart package, I got my (unstable release) package from debian's homepage.
* You _MUST_ have compiled Qt 3.2.1 (better 3.2.2) with multithreading support turned on (which is not Qt's default configuration), otherwise you can't configure and build scribus
* You _MUST_ have FreeType installed (release > 2.1.0), whose autoconf script didn't like my XPG4-compliant egrep ("no acceptable egrep found in $PATH"). I hacked the configure script (mainly added "GREP=/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep" and deleted a bunch of lines), and it configured and compiled without errors (seems like it doesn't use egrep anyway). If you don't want to mess around with the configure script, you'll probably need GNU egrep; maybe somebody should tell the FreeType developers that GNU stands for "GNU's _NOT_ Unix", and we'd also like to be able to use Unix for compiling so-called Unix-software.
* You may want to turn off python support. I got an error message ("relocations remain against allocatable but non-writeable objects" or something like that) when trying to build scribus with python support (but maybe python release 2.2.2 is just too old, so you'll have to try whether you can build scribus with newer versions of python)
* Anyway, it doesn't work, because
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DUSE_SOLARIS -DSVR4 -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c -o scribus.o `test -f 'scribus.cpp' || echo './'`scribus.cpp
In file included from scribus.h:58,
from scribus.cpp:37:
seiten.h:139: error: parse error before numeric constant
gmake[1]: *** [scribus.o] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/application/scribus-1.1.6/scribus'
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By the way, there is no numeric constant on line 139 in seiten.h, programming in C/C++ can be kind of frustrating...
However, on the scribus homepage it says "Desktop Publishing for Linux", and as I'm using Solaris, I can't say it's scribus' fault that it doesn't work. Maybe it takes some GNU Not-Unix magic to make it work...
I am using gcc 3.3.2, Qt 3.2.2, FreeType 2.1.8, libart 2.3.16, GNUmake 3.80, Python 2.2.2 and korn shell 93 on a heavily patched Solaris 7 x86 (even runs Solaris 8 binaries, didn't try running Solaris 9 binaries yet).
Hmmm. You're a professional designer, I see. Yep, a guy who designs documents, sends them to press guy without profiles or a reference target and then screams at them when things don't look right. I think that says it all.
You are aware that most DTPs use a profile connection space to work with? They bring in an embedded or input profile associated with the image or another object, then do a colour transformation to a device independent profile connection space. The DTP app then does all it's work in that profile connection space.
To view the image on screen, the DTP uses the display profile of your screen and the PCS and applies a rendering intent and then outputs the images/document to the screen. Similarly, to output the document to hardcopy the DTP applies a transformation with a rendering intent using the PCS and the output profiles.
You see, I'm unsure why you think it matters whether an image is in CMYK or not! (you obviously can't view images as CMYK on a computer screen as it's a transmittive device (RGB) anyway) In other words, yes, an output device needs CMYK (usually) for professional output, but as most DTPs use a PCS to store images - so what?
Incidently, slightly OT, but are you aware that most inkjets (even pro-graphics ones like the Epson Stylus Pro 10600) send RGB data to the device and let the printer map the RGB colours to CMYK for you? And also, when you send data down the line your app has to convert to raster data anyway and it won't be the same as your original compressed file?
Someone has to ask this question.
Does it export layouts to TeX code?
There is a general, yet more powerful than anything I've seen out of Scribus, version for $99 and a new "Pro" version for $149. That's a very good and reasonable price for software of this power. This is definitely a package that DESERVES some press from the Linux community! Here is the URL to their site:
http://www.grasshopperllc.com/
If you have any serious interest in doing DTP under Linux, this is THE package to check out. Hopefully, in a few years, Scribus will catch up to PageStream, but it is not there yet.
Scribus, like GIMP, has no spot colors, such as Pantone, etc. That's a significant shortcoming.
By the way, I discovered completely by accident over the weekend that this app comes with the ClusterKnoppix LiveCD, I think version 3.3-2004-02-16. I think its v1.1.4 of Scribus that's included.
I have to support about 12 small newspapers right now, and I would LOVE to be able to get rid of all the stupid macintoshes that are a PITA to maintain and go to a more stable platform that doesn't break the bank.
The newspaper industry IS notoriously stingy (as evident by my paycheck), and if this app comes out polished enough to be able to perform the same functions of QuarkXpress and run it on hardware that's less expensive to purchase, maintain and replace, that's another lever to use on the administrative side to get some linux workstations in place. Add in some OpenOffice.org to the equation, and most of the win2k boxes can get converted, too.
Of course, since we're all running on an AD domain, we'd still have to pay Microsoft for the CALs to connect to the W2k servers and the Exchange2K email server. Change will be a loooong time coming there.
But Scribus is an awesome HUGE step in the right direction for linux. For linux to become a real desktop replacement in the workplace, it's gotta have the apps that are needed by even the "niche" industries, like publishing, accounting, insurance, etc...
There are hordes of small businesses that have to pay big-business prices for software to do their job. I'd almost say the small-businesses outnumber the big ones, so if the SB owner can convert to linux, when they become a BB, they will bring linux with them, and the plan to rule the world will finally be culminated!!!! er, I mean, they will help to bring linux to the masses.
If you can read this, you are most likely close enough.
Better H&J --- this is particularly egregious since TeX's is in the public domain and Adobe even made use of it (by way of URW's HZ) in InDesign
;)
Broader, ink-oriented colour support --- the GIMP needs this too. Forget ``just'' CMYK, let's see a sophisticated, general model for mixing ink reflex blue w/ metallic flake silver. cf. Cerilica's Truism and PowerTone / SilverTone.
Better user interface, say something like Macromedia Freehand on steroids (it kills me that Macromedia didn't follow through on Altsys adding page layout features to their successor to FreeHand 3 Virtuoso --- Altsys Virtuoso 2.0~=Macromedia FreeHand 4, but on NeXTstep).
Also, type manipulation capabilities like Right Brain's TouchType.app (w/ Adobe ``lost'' the source code to so can't make available for Mac OS X).
It'd be nice if it ran in GNUstep so one got Services &c. Where's the equation option?
In the meanwhile, I'll just continue using TeX and Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube.
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I just want to use this forum to thank the developers of scribus for this fine app.
I did some desktop publishing back in school with Adobe Pagemaker, but I don't have a usable Windoze box around anymore. So last fall I checked if there were any desktop publishing tools for Linux available when I wanted to create a "birthday paper" for my dad's 60's birthday.
apt-get install scribus
And the program had everything I needed and not a single thing too much. It was usable without much learning and I was able to produce a profesional looking paper practically over the weekend.
It even had support for automatic hipernation in German language.
I can even say 'cddr' with a Lisp!
Q: What is the Scribus?
A: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Scribus is. You have to see it for yourself.
Would it be a good tool for pub;lishing a 75 page book with some photos in the middle?
Is it any relation to Jeebus?
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It adds skins, and the scrollbar accelerator feature is really cool!
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I'm going to guess that your Macs are running OS 9.x.
If you switch the Macs to OS X, particularly with OS X Server, it won't be a PITA to maintain and you can probably chuck some of the Windows servers as the OS X server can run your AD.
OS X is UNIX. It's rock stable. OS X server runs Apache and PHP and everything you'd expect from a Linux server.
OS X is Macintosh. So it runs Photoshop and Quark (finally!) and InDesign. It can run Word. It also has *much* better vector graphics programs IMHO than Linux.
My point is this--give OS X a try. You might like it, and I'm sure all the people currently using Macs would prefer to us OS X to Linux if given a choice at the moment. Heck, most design folks I know are so reluctant to change, that they'll still want to use Quark 4.x or 5.x on an ancient Mac 1-2 years from now rather than InDesign or something else on a brand-new G5...
(Oh, and you can save a *lot* of money if you switch your server to OS X since there's a relatively cheap unlimited client license.)
How about the ability to import/export files with FrameMaker's Maker Interchange Format (MIF) format? Lots of Linux documentation is written with DocBook which can be rendered to MIF using OpenJade.
IMHO, the ability to import MIF files and tidy up their page layouts before the final render/print would make this a killer app. Other page layout programs may able to import MIF files so exporting this format would be helpful.
Also, how about an English language manual?
Now I finally got 1.1.6 installed on my Solaris box.
For all Solaris users:
Regarding the error on line 139 in scribus/seiten.h:
(parse error before numeric constant)
The code on line 139 is:
QCheckBox* DS;
On Solaris, and possibly on many other Unix System V Implementations, DS is already defined if something includes signal.h; to fix this error, place the following line into seiten.h (right after the #include statements):
#undef DS
I compiled Scribus on an Intel Platform Edition machine, which is a little-endian architecture. After installing Scribus, i got the following error:
xlib_rgb_init: compiled for big endian, but this is a little endian machine.
I tried a lot of modifications in gdk-pixbuf*.[ch] and in config.h to make it work, but it always starts up with a white page that turns red after about 1/4 second. If I choose red as background color for the page, the page turns darkgreen. Combinations of red and blue work, combinations of blue and green do also work.
I don't know what's wrong with the colors, but to me it seems like the developers of Scribus really messed up a lot of things regarding big-endian/little-endian dependent computations (I wonder where you need such computations in your code, when you just want to view an empty page.)
So, it theoretically works. Practically it doesn't, because the color computations are broken...
stability: ????? bwaaahaahahahaha
Precisely. They need to work on that, not GUI non-issues
C'mon last stable was 4.11. 5 never was finished when they already released 6, (yes I agree OSX was the reason) and 6 is not even near to be stable (don't know on OSX though)
it can still dissapear with no reason under OSX, and there is already a 6.1 patch! WORK WORK WORK Ibrahimi!!!
InDesign is taking Quarks share in such ammount.
InDesign is a piece of trash. No professional is switching to it, and it cannot touch the ubiquity and third party support of QuarkXpress.
nuff said.
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>If you have any serious interest in doing DTP under >Linux, this is THE package to check out. Hopefully, >in a few years, Scribus will catch up to >PageStream, but it is not there yet.
:(
Err - No!
The Linux port is a buggy crash prone POS.
A quick scan of the pagestream mailing lists will show many unhappy campers and a developer who really does not understand Linux
Sad to say, coz it was great on the Amiga