Hi! My first post to the list. On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:47, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Hi all, > > LWN.net has an article about Scibus at http://lwn.net/Articles/40000/ - > the interesting thing there is the comments which discuss if Scribus is > the first DTP app for Linux or not, as some consider LaTeX to generate > "press-ready" results as well and might be capable of DTP as well...
After reading those comments, it might serve the Scribus project better to refrain from the claim of being the first Linux DTP app. Just replace DTP with 'page layout.' Apparently, there are far too many nitpicky geeks out there. That's one of the biggest problems with us, really. :) We tend to get overly excited about how someone uses one single word in their ad-copy and miss the forest for the tree. As for their argument... I don't want to learn LaTeX and I've never been happy with layout restrictions placed on me by LyX and the various LaTeX styles that it can use. I think this is a fabulous application and intend to use it professionally, now that I've decided that OpenOffice.org just can't do the layout sophistication that I want. BTW: Feature Request: Direct Import OpenOffice.org files. Should be just a simple matter of creating a parser for their XML and saving into Scribus' XML. I'd do it myself, but I have trouble getting "Hello World!" programs to compile. ~/Charles
