GIMP and Inkscape are both available for Mac. From my 20+ years experience with Photoshop / Illustrator / CorelDraw et al, GIMP and Inkscape should replace your Phsp and Illustrator quite nicely.
TSL On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 12:01 +0100, Professor Rodney Coates wrote: > Hi Owen, > > At the moment I use RagTime (a German Page layout program) which is > somewhat idosyncratic at times, quite complex and does not have quite > such an appealing Graphics User Interface as Scribus. > > I use Pages '09 (Apples iWork suite) for general word processing. I > use Illustrator and Photoshop extensively, for the production of > scientific graphics. All these applications allow me to use (and have > so done for decades, in previous incarnations) Symbol font and Zapf > Dingbats. I cannot comprehend why Scribus allows me to have both these > fonts on its font list, but that they just do not work at all. I could > sort of understand if Scribus did not use them so did not show them. > > Also, with respect to the fonts list, it is really nice to have DTP > and allied software present you with a list of "just those fonts" you > normally use. Then (as with Illustrator, for example) you don't have > to scroll through the entire several hundred (or whatever it is) to > reach the one you want, when you make font changes in a document. > Scribus allows this but, annoyingly - at least as far as I can see - > there is no way you can "deselect all" then select the half-dozen you > would ever work with. So I spent quite a while happily setting up my > preferences before discovering that two fonts of the half-dozen, for > the first time ever, just would not work. > > Incidentally, I am of the view that there has hardly been a > significant true innovation in all the "upgrades" of Illustrator and > Photoshop that I have owned and paid for over at least two decades. If > I could find an OpenSource equivalent to these applications I would > change today. It is a project (finding them) that I am currently > engaged on. This is why I am so saddened with the Scribus situation. > It looks and feels really great but it just don't cut the mustard. > > Finally: No, I do not have LaTex. I have known about it for some > fifteen years. My French engineering friends swore by it, but it > always seemed too complex for my purposes. Instead, I used MathType > which either had to be bought or was bundled into AppleScript. I shall > go and see what I can find in the way of LaTex software now. > > Many thanks > > Rodney > > > > > On 23 Aug 2009, at 11:34, Owen wrote: > > > > > > >> The Symbol font will not display; Zapf Dingbats will not display; > >> Render Frame will not work (). Latex/Tex is not working/ > >> available .... > >> > >> I am a technical author. I need to set Greek symbols within lines of > >> ordinary text. I need to set mathematical formulae. > > > > > > > > If latex/TeX is not available, why? > > > > Do you have latex etc installed > > > > can you produce documents in Latex? > > > > If you have latex, I suggest you use that for the time being. it also > > has the advantage of making footnotes and reference list. > > > > Do your fonts display in Open office or whatever document editor you > > are using? > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Owen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > scribus mailing list > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > Professor Rodney Coates, Ph.D., FIEEE > Seiche Ltd. > Swallow Court > Trefor > Holyhead > Anglesey > LL65 4TA > +44 (0)1407 720 474 > Mobile: 0787645020 > > rcoates at seiche.com > www.seiche.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090823/24734e5f/attachment.htm>
