You don't? You write books in Quark. I thought Scribus was intended to compete with Quark?
I have only used it for fliers so far, but I thought the goal was to make it good for books. -EdK --- Pierre-Luc Auclair <p.lucauclair at heliosmulti.com> wrote: > Of course, you don't write a book in Scribus! That's > not what it's > designed for. > > As long as people will try to do with a layout > software what they should > do with a text editor, they will never be happy. > > Pierre-Luc > > Allen wrote: > > >Craig, > > > >I'm sure you get many compliments. I have not doubt > whatsoever, > >however.... Well, it's like this, most people won't > tell you there is a > >problem, they'll just go away. I personally know 3 > people who tried to > >use Scribus and dumped it. I thought it was just > because they were Linux > >kernel coders, SMTP experts, and C++ programmers > that there heads were > >not screwed on the right way to understand a frames > based DTP program. > >When my friend Bob, the kernel level coder, talked > about a book he and a > >team or programmers were doing about Linux > appliances, he mentioned the > >difficulties he'd had doing it in Scribus. I > commiserated with him and > >decided to try it to see if it was truly as > bad/difficult to understand > >as he said, which is why I'm here. > > > >I know for a fact he and his partners never wrote > any notes to the > >Scribus team about their problems, they just moved > on and tried DocBook, > >which they abandoned shortly before settling on a > combination of AbiWord > >and OpenOffice. > > > >How many others have done the same? Inquiring minds > would like to know. > > > >Best, > > > >Allen > > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > Ed Keith http://www.freecherrypy.org/edk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
