2007/8/7, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>: > > Hi Alex, > > Am Dienstag, 7. August 2007 11:45 schrieb Alexandre Garacotche: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to make helpful suggestions here in order to make scribus a > > better software. I am very much supporting free software and I am > > teaching professional graphic design. > > Although most of the things can be accomplished in Scribus, they are > > some really important missing features that prevent professional using > > Indesign for ex, to join us: > > > > - template page not modifiable and therefore not very handy > > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4399 > > > - too few paragraph style features, there are many typography options > > that are needed for a professional graphic designer. > > More to come. Can you specify what you need exactly and what is not > already in > the bugtracker? > > > - configurable grids and guides, the fact that we have to have the > > manage guides window open to move the guide around is really > > uncomfortable. Best would be to treat them as objects. > > You can grab a guide with the mouse and move it. For more planned features > have a look at the bugtracker. > > > - the imprecision of the object snapping to guides and generally the way > > to handle them is visually not very helpful. > > Can you specify? > > > > > I Have been using indesign for years and whereas I have no problem to > > tell my student to use the Gimp instead of Photoshop or Inkscape instead > > of Illustrator, I still can't say to them to use scribus. > > Well, I stumbled across a German professor of art who requires skills in > Photoshop and Scribus ;) Actually, there's no doubt that InDesign is still > ahead of Scribus, but you also have to take into account how long it took > Adobe to get that far. Scribus is younger than InDesign, and there's no > armada of developers behind it. The existing team, however, is very > skilled, > and if you look at the roadmap, you'll find that they're also quite > ambitious. Just be patient. Things won't happen overnight, but they will > happen.
Bonjour Alexandre, On top of Christoph's comments, suggestions and questions (to which we'd really like to read your answers!) I think it is worth mentionning that your school's website tells us you're working on OS X: http://www.bab-art.fr/spip/spip.php?rubrique53 and this might be *the* good reason for not being completely happy with Scribus at the time being. As far as I know, the current 1.3.4 Scribus for Mac/Aqua (unless you use X11 and installed a more stable version) is not suitable for production. It is a development version and it does have some specific Mac OS X glitches that we know about and that will be fixed along the road. For a better experience, it is advisable to use the stable 1.3.3.x series running either on Linux or Windows. We are currently working at a Mac version (Universal Binary) and this of course will help change the opinion you have so far about Scribus, I think! Plus, we can only be happy of input you want to give to the project, so you are most welcome to pursue the discussion here and give a hand to make things happen faster and better. As Christoph suggests, please be specific when discussing missing features or the ones you think are disfunctional. This will help us a lot. ? bient?t! Louis > > > > Thanks > > Alex > > Cheers > > Christoph > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070808/f52a96b2/attachment.html
