Plinnell a ?crit : > On Friday 03 September 2004 15:51, Steve Jacobs wrote: Does a comprehensive, bullet-style list of Scribus' capabilities exist >>anywhere? >> >>Steve
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=introduction&page=specs > > Cheers, > Peter A close look at that list tells it all ? thank you Peter! Again, I would strongly ? with both hands!!! ? recommend the use of Scribus in any DTP school program... and more! Here again, the list. I?ve added a few comments about Quark here and there. This is to be completed. Please don?t get me wrong either : my entire office have been working and still works with Quark since version 1 ... up to 6.1. The only purpose of these comments is not to put down Quark but rather to tell how achieved and mature Scribus is. Read on! ;-) Louis ? Supports Unicode text and fonts including right to left text for Arabic and Hebrew script via freetype2. [If Quark does that, you need a special version : even the costly Passport version doesn?t do that. I think you need a special version of the program plus a special version of the OS... Tech support, anyone ;-) ] ? Frames, visible and hidden with support for rounded edges and corners for text and objects, rotatable and scalable [Quark 3-4-5-6.1 can?t ?scale? objects with percentage values : need for QX-Tools extension] ? Page Templates - Page Palettes allow for easy page management ? Document-wide layers - editable and items can be moved ? Paragraph styles with numerous paragraph and text style options (alignment, fonts) ? Manual kerning of type and embedding fonts allowed in all documents including PDFs. ? Object linking, grouping, moving, locking, resizing and converting to different object types. ? Margins, guides and snap to grid which can be user defined, as well as hidden or visible. Professional Publishing Features: ? CMYK color including ICC color managed previews of images and embedding ICC profiles in PDF documents for accurate screen to print color. ? Creation of CMYK and RGB color Postscript separations. ? Sophisticated PDF creation, including interactive PDF forms, support for nearly all PDF field types, and JavaScript actions. [Quark 6.1 doesn?t do that at all.] ? The ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment including advanced Level 3/PDF 1.4 postscript devices. ? Encapsulated PostScript import with previews on the page canvas / EPS export. ? Full support for Level 2 PostScript output, a very large subset of Level 3 and support for PDF 1.4 features including transparency, gradients and 128 bit security. [Quark cannot deal with transparency.] ? Full Compliance with PDF/X-3, an ISO standard for creating "press ready" PDFs - a first for any DTP application. ? Supports font embedding and sub-setting in both postscript and PDF export. ? Scribus can convert all supported fonts into Postscript outlines, which can be further edited in Scribus. [Quark needs Illustrator ;-) to do that...] Ease of use features: Drag'n'drop with KDE 3, including a Drag'n'drop scrapbook for frequently used items such as text blocks, logo images, backgrounds etc. ? Online help browser with extensive and continually updated documentation in English with sample files included. [Quark Passport has online help in various languages... Scribus team is working on that!] ? Easy to use tools and palettes for measurement, rotation and other object properties ? Full support for both True Type, Type 1 Postscript and Open Type fonts. [Quark does not support Open Type fonts. Repeat, Quark does not support Open Type fonts. Repeat... ;-( ] ? User configurable keyboard shortcuts. [Quark has no way to configure keyboard shortcuts : needs Mac OS X to do that. Not 100% working...] ? Ability to run in 27 different languages without recompilation. [Quark regular supports one language. Quark Passport cost almost twice the price and does not support as many languages.] ? Sophisticated automatic hyphenation engine with several languages available. [Quark Passport offers better overall control in terms of hyphenation capabilities... for now.] ? Easy to use drawing tools for custom shapes including: freehand lines, lines, curves, ellipses, bezier curves, polygons, etc. ? Detailed and flexible user preferences for document and application defaults File Formats: ? EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) PNG (Portable Network Graphics), TIFF (Tag Image File Format), and XPM (XpixMap). ? Scribus native file format is fully documented and XML based - a PDF of the file format is available on line. [Is Quark native file format documented for the rest of us?] ? Scribus can also import and export well-formed SVG 1.0 (Scalable Vector Graphics) including text on a path, images and text. Scribus can export all features of a Scribus document as SVG. Images are converted to PNG when exporting SVG. [I didn?t try this, but my guess is Quark doesn?t do that] Architecture: ? Developed with GPL QT 3 for Linux and "Unix like" operating systems. Scribus has been ported to Fink and is actively maintained for X11 applications on Mac OS X. [Quark doesn?t work on Linux.] ? Plug-in support and API including a color management plug-in and special character inserter. [Quark doesn?t have a special character inserter feature.] ? Powerful Python Scripting Plug-in for extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus. Target Usage: ? Layouts for newsletters, corporate stationery, posters, training manuals, technical documentation, business cards and other documents which need flexible layout and/or sophisticated image handling, as well as precise typography controls and image sizing not available in current word processors. ? Users needing the ability to output to professional quality image setting equipment, as well as re-purposing for internal printing, web distributed PDFs or presentations. ? Users needing to create interactive PDF forms for presentations and cgi-form submission via PDF.
