On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:30 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [...] > direct experience:
Thanks for your response. At the moment graphics is less of a priority, and something where one can add sound and a series of still images is the highest priority, so I am going to focus on Blender. [...] > 2. blender - learning curve very steep - say 6 months of hard work. > But professional quality How did you go about learning Blender? When I had tried a long time ago, online tutorials were hard to find. I see that http://www.blender.org now seems to have fairly extensive tutorials. Is the book worth buying? [...] > 4. scribus - same as above re comparison the pagemaker or quark express Desktop publishing, especially in Indian languages, is also a separate area of interest at Sarai, as we put out a fair number of publications. People are using Scribus, but the biggest problem is that Scribus does not currently render Indian language text correctly. Apparently it is in the pipeline for 1.3.6, or so (current CVS is 1.3.4), but given that it has been promised for over a year, I am not holding my breath. On the other hand, I understand that neither PageMaker nor Quark Express handle Unicode. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
