Dan Fink wrote: > I am currently co-authoring a book on building small wind turbines in > the home workshop. The draft of the book was written using OpenOffice, > and we were about to purchase Adobe InDesign for layout --a large sum of > money. This also would have meant that during the layout process, I'd be > chained to a windows computer, while running my office Linux machine at > the same time -- since I am located off the power grid and generate all > my own electricity from solar and wind, that's a significant waste of > power. And our company avoids the use of Microsoft products whenever > possible. > > Everything I have heard so far indicates that Scribus is completely > acceptable for bringing our book to publication, and we are excited that > we can do it using open source software. > I don't think you'll be disappointed. The list is a great resource, due to the large number of subscribers who know about publishing, printing, color, layout, and of course, Scribus. Make sure you take advantage of the Wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net -- and, also I would invite you to mention your work there once it's completed: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Made_with_Scribus
Greg
