> > Subject: > Re: [scribus] Ventura Publisher > From: > John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > Date: > Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:35:31 -0400 > > To: > Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 19:42:18 Baseball Bob wrote: > >> > Submitted on 08/05/2010 >> > Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224] >> > >> > Submitted values are: >> > >> > Name: Baseball Bob >> > Email Address:RLN37 at yahoo.com >> > Subject: Ventura Publisher >> > Message: >> > I am trying to drop Windows altogether, and go to Ubuntu. But I run a >> > baseball league for kids every summer, and depend on Ventura Publisher >> ( aWYSIWYG desktop publishing program) to make all necessary forms, and >> to produce good-looking many-page manuals for coaches and parents. I >> wond> if moving to Scribus would be workable for me? I don't need absolute >> > compatibility with Ventura, but I have found Ventura to be very convenient >> > over the years, so would like a Linux DTP program that has similar >> > attributes. Would Scribus be good for me? Or is it mainly just a >> > single-page layout program, that might bog down when tackling something >> > like a 35-page user manual for example? >> I produce a 30-35 page monthly Club Journal with Scribus and it works 100%!! I have just moved to the latest version and LOVE it. I'm running it on Kububtu 10.04.
My Journal is double sided (for printing out) and in Landscape format - for easy reading on a 16:9 monitor. It has 3 columns per page and many photos and Scribus handles it all very well. Ian Whitfield -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100805/44a4e605/attachment.htm>
