Quoting P Linnell <plinnell at attbi.com>: > Welcome all. > > I am the primary documenter for Scribus
Three cheers for anyone willing to provide documentation for an OSS project! Apart from a simple and unified installer, the biggest thing missing from Linux is documentation. > The fonts issue is a high one, but difficult to solve at the moment - > not hopeless though. One of the difficulties is the wide variations in > the way Linux distros handle fonts. Xfree86 4.3.0 is now out and Keith > Packard's fontconfig while not perfect is under very active development. > This will bring a lot of sanity to font configuration in Xfree86. The > transition will take some time. I look forward to this being done. This is the only obstacle to my using Scribus full-time. > I think Franz has a heavily upgraded version of Suse 7.0. I am sure he > will confirm at some point. Franz, are you on the list? > The gist: Adobe tested the Linux market with Framemaker, along with > watching Corel's Linux financial losses and concluded the Linux market > is unwilling to pay the same price for Adobe professional applications > as Win and Mac users. (There I think they are dead wrong.) I think they may have a point. If I can get the GIMP to replace Photoshop, Zope to replace GoLive, Sweep to replace CoolEdit Pro (not an Adobe product, but you get the point), why wouldn't I expect that a free application would eventually come along to replace InDesign? And it has. I think open-source is well on the way to de-commidifying software. I've always liked Macs and Adobe, but I'll jump at the opportunity to get equally-good software for free. I'll even be happy to contribute to the effort (see below). > > > When Scribus is ready for the big time, I'll be free at last. > > We are getting there... > > I think Franz has done a remarkable job, considering he has essentially > been a one man show without any outside support. Like me, a real job and > family. Considering the feature set right now compared to when I started > working in earnest on the documentation, it really is amazing how > capable Scribus has become. I totally agree. I'm not a programmer, so I can't contribute that way. I am, however, a designer, and I am happy to do what I can. For example, I sent Franz some ideas on the layout of Scribus, which he integrated into the Measurements palette in 0.9.8pre. I have more ideas as well, laid out in QT Designer. If folks would like to see the files, or screenshots thereof, let me know. I'm very interested in feedback. Steve == http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=603
