My experience with DTP is that my friends in service bureaux use it of course. I put out text documents with footnotes endnotes and tables. I used to use MikTeX in Windows but since a few years ago I migrated to Linux I use plain brute force Latex. There is lyx which I don't really like and now kile which looks very, very good. It seems to me that for Scribus to succeed (it already HAS done so!) as a DTP it must: 1: handle smoothly text flow. Although one is not to use DTP as a word processor (i,e, write in it originally) many will do so. Also there is always the fix up and add on, substantial. If the text flow is sluggish, it will not do. Also: smooth text box linking. Columns. Run-around. All must be in place stuff. 2. corollary: text placement must be solid. Quark can do tenths and I think thousandths of a point. 3. Quark has "extension" vendors who do things like "flight check" "nudging" and "super step and replace" etc. That is an industry in itself. Is Scribus to be open to a host of third-party improvers? It is open source so the answer is "yes" 4. Import formats: rtf, OO, doc ( wp? forget it! It was a good program!), qxd, pdf, Abi
Remember Quark went from 3 to 4 to 5 and we hear now to 6 and it took an average of at least a YEAR for each point upgrade and there were many tenth point fixes and occasional corruptions. Bart Alberti bart at solozone.com
