LinuxLingam wrote: > >until scribus, tried researching and grappling with tex, but just gave >up after a few months. my conclusion: tex is for document engineering, >while scribus is for art directors and designers. > > I use Tex quite a bit, and for the things that it does well, it does them extremely well. Page control and placement of objects on a page can be quite a chore -- trial and error and trial and error and... I have incorporated some EPS graphics, and while it's doable, it ain't easy. As soon as you want to make the jump to color, Scribus just leaves it in the dust.
>incidentally, does scribus use concepts from tex for its typography >engine? so far, i am quite impressed with the typography engine of TeX, >and of indesign. i strongly feel that several new ideas are yet to be >implemented in either, though. > > For a project without a publicly visible 'roadmap', Scribus absolutely amazes me. Franz and the other project members seem truly possessed -- in a good way, of course. It also helps that they seem to be very good at the skills needed. G Pittman
