On Friday 02 April 2010 15:29:41 Harry Collier wrote: > 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 In my experience Scribus will do what you want and more. It is a bit weak on long, text-heavy books, and does not have the indexing capablilty found in other programs.
I don't think Publisher is being improved any more. BTW TeX is totally tag-driven. -- 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
