I just caught this thread. Has me almost as excited as the Mac OS X version ;)
I want to sincerely thank all who are a part of this. One of my clients is now using Scribus for his in-house marketing efforts. It allows me to send him base files that he can use to add his content. He runs a gaming/training center. The labs are full of Window machines which I hope to use for after-school and adult training programs and Scribus on Windows would be a perfect tool for teaching DTP. Would anyone venture to guess how far away we are from a Windows installer? I think the power of open source is that these students can take their projects - and the software - home (or to work) with them. Steven Boothe wrote: > MaHan wrote: > >> My deepest respect to Steven Boothe aka Hap0 and his >> work on bringing Scribus to the Windows world! >> >> Finally, we have an easy to follow recipe for common >> mortals, that simply works. > > > Thanks but if it hadn't been for Ralf and Peter over at the kde-cygwin > project I would have had the ingredients to cook with! And if it > hadn't been for the nice folks who decided to pursue getting us such a > fine cookbook (http://wiki.scribus.net) I wouldn't have had such a > nice place to enter the recipe! Then of course there is all the fine > developers here that well I guess had a small part in bringing us this > fine software to begin with! :) > >> All steps for installing binaries, described on >> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Installing_Scribus_on_Win32 >> , worked without the slightest problems:) > > > That's exciting feedback. Thanks! > >> There is still a tiny color issue in my case -- white >> http://linux.hanski.info/tests/scribus_on_cygwin.jpg > > > will be displayed as you can see on the screen shot (I'm > >> going to file it on bugs.scribus.net), but the export >> to PDF works perfectly (white is white). > > > I reformatted that last quote so that the URL worked on-click. > >> I don't know, what others will do, but I am going to >> e-mail some Windows addicts tonight :) > > > Well I certainly hope that it will be more accessible and helpful for > those desiring to get away from the proprietary publishing tools. > Especially those who desire to learn more about DTP without having to > cough up lots of money for software before they even start. > > Cheers to all! > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > -- Gary Ritchie, Designer + Digital Artist Pittsburgh, USA http://garyritchie.com T: 412 371 9152 AIM/iChat: secundarx Alt email: g.ritchie4 at verizon.net
