Kholish:
At Sunday, 3/02/2008, 12:55 AM;, you wrote: >I am new ti scribus. I want to know... >Is scribus features same with Framemaker ? I have used FrameMaker since v. 3.0 was released simultaneously on Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh, and have used it on all those platforms, including Sun OpenLook and HP-UX. It is optimised for producing books where the layout is more or less the same from page to page (except for the obvious exceptions such as chapter title pages, index pages, frontmatter, etc.). If I was writing a traditional book (manual, fiction, non-fiction) I would use FrameMaker for its comprehensive layout, TOC, LOF, LOT, Index, cross-referencing, etc. capabilities. It has the best table editor in the business bar none, and has a limited ability to float graphics and tables, i.e. if it won't fit on current page it is moved to the next. *Everything* in FrameMaker is a named style/format, from cross-references, pages, colours, tables, and is able to generate many reports and lists for managing a project. It can also be interfaced to content management systems. But its colour handling and profile management is weak but adequate for its purpose. It has the handy ability to assemble the components of a TOC or Index and format them in any way you wish. It also has conditions that allow you to selectively hide or reveal content, ideal when there are product variants for different markets, etc. FrameMaker did not support Unicode until the most recent release (v. 8.0) and releases do not bring any radical updates and are rather expensive. Another thing that sets it apart is its support for structured documentation (read SGML and XML). It has an extremely good structure editor. Unfortunately, because any given schema (Docbook, TEI, DITA) has to be mapped onto its native structure particularly for tables, a good deal of customisation and configuration via XSLT, read/write rules and sometimes C plug-ins may need to be done to ensure painless roundtripping to/from XML/SGML. If I were doing a layout intensive publication where every page is different (think newspaper, brochure, magazine, annual report), I would use Scribus, particularly if there were many graphics, and TOC, etc. was not needed. If I were doing a manual with simple graphics and a TOC, Index, etc. I would use FrameMaker. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail <mailto:hfinger at handholding.com.au>
