Charles Newbury wrote: > I?ve been experimenting with Aqua Scribus 1.3.4 on my iMac G5 (OS X 10.4.9) > with an eye to using it as a replacement for Freehand MX. Here?s couple of > constructive (I hope) observations: > > Scribus needs a stand alone Installer.
Yep, that'd be good. As with many things, it comes down to who has the time to prepare and package it. Simpler step-by-step instructions would even do the trick. > Finally, up and running, the observation that Scribus? performance seems > awfully sluggish compared to other applications on my machine. This is a known problem with Qt3 on Mac OS X. I understand that Qt4 is snapper on OS X. > Additionally, a WYSIWYG for font selection is needed so that at least the > name of the font selected is in that font. This isn't all that practical with Qt3 - it could be made to work, but would be a lot more fuss than you'd expect. Hopefully Qt4's methods for adding application-local fonts to its font database will make it easier to do the job. -- Craig Ringer
