Tobias Hilbricht wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2006 02:23 schrieb Johannes Graumann: >> My problem is, that by dealing with such things as graphs in coordinate >> systems (think axes, axis-labels, label-dashes, impulse plots with >> annotation of prominent peaks) and technical drawings, the scribus >> document - while eventually being able to yield a pleasing result - is >> extremely tedious to work with. > > Is Scribus the right tool for a presentation with technical/scientific > content like that? As I have no experiences with Scribus with respect to > the creation of presentations - I took this feature as I nice asset to > present onscreen a static layout meant basically for printing - I am > wondering why you prefer Scribus over, say OpenOffice Impress or > PowerPoint or LaTeX with beamer? I don't think that whether scribus is the right tool for presentations directly relates to the issue I was inquiring about. I would have exactly the same problem if I'd put together a brochure for my putative tech company and I don't think anyone would argue that that kind of work is outside of scribus' territory ... I have used both LaTeX and OO for similar purposes, but LaTeX was ditched because presentations design is IMHO a much more interactive process than the automated typesetting of, lets say a scientific paper and didn't do the job for me. When choosing scribus over OO I was specifically attracted by the native import of eps and svg the former provides - and especially with that I'm having problems now.
> All three tools offer ways to make the > result rather platform independent and they have more features, as far as > the creation of presentations is concerned. I think scribus actually provides a lot of features tailored for presentations (see e.g., the 'Extras' tab in the pdf export dialogue. And the platform independence of pdf - produced from LaTeX, OO or scribus is identical. Joh
