Scribus Cracks the Big Leagues in Print

An anonymous reader writes "In an interview on O'Reilly, The Scribus Team, who recently released Scribus 1.2 , reveal the first commercial adoptions of Scribus, GIMP, Inkscape, and Linux by commercial newspapers. Who said Linux could not make it in the print world ?"

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GIMP can never match adobe for print.

[Anonymous Coward]

For print work Adobe's different handling of colors makes Gimp a non-starter. Even for 2-color black&white print, you need whatever fud Adobe says gives them an advantage over GIMPs color abilities.

And you suck ass.

[Seraphim_72]

Man, I dont get it, I really don't

and a great solution if I weren't stealing Illustrator (i.e. if I were running a design shop and I needed to make sure all my licenses were legit)

one more

I just never got to like Gimp. It's significantly gotten better over the years but it still seems like a poor substitute for photoshop

So, you can steal great software, and it is better than OSS - and if you stole the one (pardon! infringed) I will bet your photoshop licence aint "legit" either. Yet you can gripe that you can't be Open Source cuz it isn't as good. I am stunned. How about I forward your email and website to Adobe and we see what thier lawyers think of your post? OS doesn't fit you, and OS doesn't WANT your kind. Go get your hacks, and stay on MS, your time is coming.

Re:why not expect it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh boy, why do people always start to say "Gimp isn't meant to be this or that" if some feature simply doesn't work or is simply completly flawed?

Because that's your opinion fuckface. If you don't like it, piss off back to Windows world or whatever homosexual company you kept before you started bothering us with your pathetic whining.
If you can't understand that Gimp is made for a specific purpose and that it can't serve everyone's whims then you need to get you head out of your arse and realise that the world doesn't revolve around you.

Gimp is a image manipulation programm and for that it should be able to do what ever stuff I need to manipulate images, if its broken it needs fixing, not users telling me that I 'do not need the feature'.

Sure, Gimp is an image manipulation program. So tell me, why do you need to draw "one pixel circles"? If you need pixel level manipulation of an image, USE A FUCKING PROGRAM THAT WAS DESIGNED TO DO THAT! It's not a difficult concept and it's not as if the programs don't exist that allow you to do just that.

However, I guess your sub-intelligence will never allow you to understand this. Get this, faggot, UNIX is for the big boys. Effeminate, piss-ridden Windows jockeys will never be accepted. I don't know why we bother to be honest. I mean, we belitte ourselves by offering brain-dead desktop systems like GNOME and KDE and yet all I hear is fucking whining and moaning from wankers with high Slashdot IDs.

If it was up to me, I'd coral every last one of the Windows users who post here and napalm them. And you my queer little friend, will be the first one in the queue and you can look forward to a good face stomping once you're down and writhing in agony. It won't stop there though. Oh no. I'll also kidnap your sorry excuse for a mother and bring Stallman out of quarantine to rape her up the arse. You'll be watching of course, and I'll make sure of it because my twenty-four inch dick will have penetrated your fat, white backside and have ripped your pink and pathetic intenstines to shreds with my manly thrusts.

Face it twat-monkey, you've no reason to live any more. It's either death by your own hand or death by gang-bang. There's more than enough sexually-frustrated Open Source faggots to make sure that you either die through blood loss via the rectum or by suffocation due to too much GPL licenced cum in your throat.

The Gimp has spoken.

riiight somebody needs a therapist!

[Anonymous Coward]

ok you are so homophobic that one wonders why you made up the little fantasy about anal sex :

""my twenty-four inch dick will have penetrated your fat, white backside and have ripped your pink and pathetic intenstines to shreds with my manly thrusts.""

er.. who has the gay fantasies again?

yes ok, you love gimp, youre mildly obsessive and slightly neurotic as well. life in your head must be pretty interesting....

incidentally did it occur to you that things like photoshop run on mac?

as for effeminte.... and big boys.... well
i run linux, im female, i write shell scripts...

did you know your friendly neighbourhood shrink can prescribe drugs that will make the nasty little voices go away?

Re:Drawing software

[Kell_pt]

I probably shouldn't be replying to anonymous cowards, but it's stronger then me.
You see, I'm not bitching. I'm not even complaining, I'm merely reporting my experience.
It's funny how developers of open source projects will usually listen to complaints and requests, whereas some users, as if attempting to defend "something", will embark in (and bark about) speech of "if you don't like it don't use it". That's stupid and immature. The only way OSS progresses is by people actually getting to use it, and I'll serve the process best by stating my troubles with the software, instead of just showing everyone how I'm not the regular user and am able to recompile it or patch. Most people around here are, like me, capable of altering a piece of software for their own needs. But would you spend that much time learning to know all those programs you use but that don't quite cut it? It only makes sense actually reporting problems (even as minor as gui ones), so that people with more knowledge can address it. That's cooperation, through constructive criticism.

I could go on talking about how posts like this are annoying and trollish, but hei, this is slashdot, and it's unlikely that anyone will even read this other than to flame. :) At least it serves the purpose of allowing me to let it out.
As for not having tried the latest GIMP releases, I did recently, and yes, there is a menu on top - I was merely stating the reasons that lead me to having found a solution elsewhere. I still find annoying the pletora of windows it launches instead of a MDI, but that is MY opinion, my feelings, just that. If you can't adapt to those, `then don't* read. :p