> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Scribus in place of Pagemaker?
> > Frank Swygert wrote: > > Thanks a lot Greg! Will try 1.3.3.12 as soon as I have a version of > > Linux up and running on a machine. Looking at MEPIS and Mint right > > now. Mint seems to be a bit more "prefessional looking". MEPIS > > defaults to KDE, Mint to Gnome. That's probably the difference I'm > > seeing, though there should be some design work unique to the distros > > as well. > > I'm assuming Scribus will work with either, or is there a preference? > > PageStream will work with either, but is more closely integrated with > > Gnome. I was told that there were mainly some GTK libraries that were > > required, and that PageStream would run fine under KDE if the > > libraries required for the GIMP were loaded. MEPIS comes with the > > GIMP, so should be ready for PageStream. Is Scribus the same -- works > > with either but a bit better with one or the other? > > Unfortunately, I don't know so much about either. We have a number of > people using Debian and the *buntus, and Mint seems another Debian-based > distro (their site says that they use Ubuntu's repositories). > A lot of people are using OpenSUSE, I and some others Fedora 9, there is opensuse 10.3 working here. i don't share jeffreys complaints. scribus is powerful, but never frustrating (my stupidness sometimes is). in the last year i had 2 or 3 crashes - never loss of data - that's stable enough for me. it's not hard to use - it's very easy to approach (i don't know his mom). my only complaint: sometimes i wish scribus to be a liitle less sluggish. -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en Fritz Eichelhardt Br?ckenstr. 1 53545 Linz Tel.: 02644 - 3784 Fax/UMS: 01212 - 517045068
