Microsoft bought-in Publisher (which is why it is one of the few long-term MS products that is stable, intuitive and works.) As for pros .... avoid them like the plague; they just love obscure complications. For books and leaflets I started with Ventura Publisher (1.0!) and then moved on to Adobe PageMaker. I am a simple person: I want to import text; I want to import graphics; I want to specify colours / borders / italic / bold / font / size. I want to output. I want to send my work of art to a commercial printer to be reproduced 1000 times. Mr Simple. I am still experimenting whether Scribus fulfils these criteria. If not: back to the options -- Ventura is still the only publishing software I have met that enables you to import text with tags (@MAIN=) directly into a publishing program.
Harry On 2 April 2010 21:17, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > On Thursday 01 April 2010 10:11:37 a.l.e wrote: >> hi harry, >> >> >> You can install Linux on your PC and then things may go better for >> >> you. >> >> >> ?> Does this mean Scribus does not really work with Windows and that I >> > >> > should go ?back to Microsoft Publisher? >> >> no, it does mean that your user experience will be better with linux and >> that windows is evil. >> >> >> 1.3.3.14 is indeed the latest stable release of scribus and it works >> mostly the same on linux and windows (with some problems when you use >> custom skins in windows). >> stick with it if you have no specific reason to change. >> publisher is for most uses much worse than any modern versions of >> scribus (this is brought to you but somebody who has never ever used >> publisher in his life). >> >> >> finally: use free software with windows. use more and more free software >> with windows. one day you will automatically switch to some sort of free >> operating system. >> >> >> take care >> a.l.e > Words of wisdom. > > Publisher has been abandoned by Microsoft. It will have no more updates. > And they invented the thing. ?Better choices are Scribus, TeX, InDesign or > even Quark Xpress. These are of course very different products but they are > products with inherent quality. Microsoft Publisher is one of those > miserable consumer level products like Front Page. ?Pros avoid them. > > -- > John Culleton > "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 > http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- ****************************** Harry Collier Infonortics Ltd 15 Market Place Tetbury GL8 8DD, England Tel: +44 (0)1666 505 772 Fax: +44 (0)1666 505 774 Main email: hcollier at gmail.com Alternative email: harry.collier at infonortics.com Website: www.infonortics.com ********************************************
