Hi fellows, I have just found a very good use of Scribus. Though you might want to know - particularly the developers - everyone - not just Scribus developers.
I am busy trying to make my ends meet! :) And hunting for development work locally - mainly online. The major hurdle that I loathe is the mostly clumsy interfaces of development tools. For example, most ER modelling and UML tools (even expensive ones) open up a modal window, when you want to draw an entity or a class, and give you can-of-worms type detail (public/private/protected/package, stereo type, so many things) while all you want to do is to _rapidly_ come up with a quick overall sketch of the design that you have in your mind and want it to see it on screen in sketch form to refine it further. A good tool in this respect is Poseidon for UML as it doesn't show you modal windows and right your stuff right there in the class-rectangle. However, there are other use cases as well - for example, web application development using any of the popular technologies such as PHP, JSP, ASP, ASP.NET, etc. The thing is: when you are talking to your client via some chat software or on phone, you want to be able to quickly sketch the details of whatever s/he is telling you and write random bits of data or shuffle that from one one box to anoher. I have found Scribus a very useful tool to get that initial picture of the overall workflow of a complex system and I have started using it regularly for the same - not just for writing resumes. -- Best regards Asif Lodhi
