On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:44 pm, tech at atlantictechsolutions.com wrote: > At Wed, 28 May 2003 16:48:20 -0400 , John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: >>
> It may share many concepts in the menu structure like Quark, but in my > experience with documenting Scribus, its PDF Export features in power and > ease of use are only matched by Indesign 2.0, so it has elements of both > IMHO. Exporting directly from Quark is not its strength IME. > > From my experience supporting DTP users professionally, Franz has done a > brilliant job of masking a great deal of the complexity of creating high > quality PDF, without handcuffing advanced users. Distilling PDF with > Quark, Pagemaker etc, is often fraught with errors for many users. > > You might be interested to see this: > http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/pre-press.html > > I think it is important to appreciate that Scribus is still a young and > quickly developing project, which is entirely made of volunteers. > > I am of the mind there is a place for both Tex and Scribus. We are lucky to > have both freely available with active development and support. > > Regards, > > Peter Thanks for your assistance. I fired up the product and tried to insert some text. I could not put the product in text insert mode. Must I enter text in some other program and then import it into Scribus? Or does it have its own built-in text editor? (I think you will appreciate the need for a tutorial :=) -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers
