Hi Kevin > I'm increasing my use of Scribus in my day-to-day business for cover > design, and I used both a Linux box and OS X for a recent project. I > thought I'd share some impressions with the list.
Always ready to hear this stuff :) > Scribus runs OK on the Mac under Fink, but it's a bit slow. I have an > old PC (733 mhz/P3) that I put Suse 9 on a while back, so I thought I'd > build Scribus 1.1.7 there and see how it worked. > > What a difference it makes working in the native environment! Scribus > immediately picks up the look and feel of KDE. It also "feels" a bit > faster, owing to the lack of two windowing systems (the Mac has its own > Aqua windowing system and also runs Fink apps with an X11 server). > Without the distractions of working in two environments, I was able to > get the cover done a bit more quickly than before--and also explore more > of Scribus' new features. I especially like the better color mixing > capabilities, and the support for transparency (don't know if that was > there before 1.1.7, but the great tutorial that was posted recently > pointed it out to me). Within CVS there is now transparency export to PDF and a nice gradient editor in the making too :)... Its amazing how long you can sit and play with making the coolest or ugliest gradients and colours that exist :) hehe. > It does, I must admit, make a difference doing graphic design on a > desktop with a 17-inch monitor instead of a laptop with a 14" screen, > which is my usual environment. Working this way, Scribus comes very > close to InDesign. > > The one area where I'm not yet ready to use Scribus in a more day-to-day > context is for page layout of books. Losing text formatting if I have to > make an edit in the story editor is a bit of a pain. It's OK for a few > paragraphs of cover text, but not for a 100-plus-page book of poetry. Story Editor is on the list for a rewrite before 1.2 is released. > The day Scribus gets a rich-text import filter--say in OpenOffice.org > format--then it will match InDesign in every essential way. Even if I'm > running it under Fink on a laptop. (I already use OpenOffice.org this way!) We have this in the works too.. being designed Right Now. > I hope this feedback from a "power user" perspective is useful. Always, and thanks. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040702/5684e9ee/attachment.pgp
