hi john,
> As I mentioned before, I'm very new to Scribus, so still trying to > understand exactly what Scribus is. So far, I have understood Scribus > to be more like Quark XPress or InDesign than Illustrator or > Freehand. What about Scribus makes you prefer it over a straight > vector drawing package such as Inkscape (of which I know almost > nothing except that it is not very close to 1.0 yet) in the > open-source universe or Illustrator in the commercial universe? i can only speak for the comparison with inkscape: - scribus has better printing oriented features (it does better pdfs) - it has a better text handling - (much) better handling of multipages documents. all in all, i think that the choice will depend on the type of document you will create and its content (and of personal preference). have a nice day a.l.e
