On 17. Feb. 10, at 21:37 , Milo Velimirovic wrote: > Greetings. > > I have the impression that more than one nutter has experience in the > world of publishing -- mine ended about twenty years ago. > > I'd like some suggestions for alternatives to Blurb's Booksmart.app (I > typed Boomsmart at first.) and yes, they must be free. > > I'm looking for an application that's network aware and multiuser > aware -- two things that Booksmart is not at all smart about. The last > time I ran into this kind of problem was with a photo scanner ported > from OS <9 that didn't grok NFS mounted filesystems. Booksmart appears > to be ported from the world of Windows as their tech support > consistently talks about file paths that start with C:\ in their > attempts to guide Mac users.
Never used it myself and I'm not sure if its what your looking for, but the only "DTP" program (a la InDesign, Quark, Pages, Ragtime, Canvas etc.) I am aware of that is GUI-driven, free and available for Mac OS X is Scribus: <http://www.scribus.net/> You can make excellent books with LaTeX, or ConTeXt. Both are free but need a fair bit of set-up and knowledge of file structure and commands. There have been a number of attempts to make a GUI Environment for LaTeX, some of them were free, but none of them were ever really good IMO. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
