telkomsa3036 at telkomsa.net wrote: >Greetings > > >I've been lurking on this list the past week, and the more I read the >keener I become to give Scribus a try. I work professionally with Tera's >Good News newspaper production system (GN3, formerly known as Hyphen) and >have been playing around with an old version (6.5) of Pagemaker. Hope >you'll bear with me if I ask two or three rather low-level questions. > >My enthusiasm has been dampened slightly having read the "Installation - >Getting Started" section of Peter Linnell's online handbook and realising, >that, as a Windows-based user, getting Scribus up and running on my system >is not simply a matter of acquiring a Linux Live CD, downloading a version >of Scribus, and then relying on a Wizard to install - or could I expect to >find the various requirements listed by Peter (Qt, Freetype, Ghostscript >etc) bundled with a Live CD? > >If running Scribus from a Live CD is a feasible proposition, is there any >CD version I should prefer? > > One short answer is Knoppix -- works well and they update frequently, so the Scribus version should be pretty recent.
Greg
