On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:51 AM, John Culleton wrote:
> On Sunday, August 07, 2011 08:26:07 am Peter Nermander wrote: >>> Interestingly, Scribus has more features than MS Word, which is > why I'm >>> using it. For the type of documents I create, WYSIWYG is > critical, so I >>> rarely use Story Editor except for tasks which are feasible, > practical, >>> or possible directly in the frame. >> >> I'm a big fan of Scribus, but really, does it have more features > than MS >> Word?? >> >> I can list dozens of features that MS Word has but Scribus lacks. >> Automatic foot notes, indices and tables of contens (based on > styles), >> relative positioning of objects, automatically calculated >> fields/references, you can get word to automatically use styles in > i >> defined order (like you start with Heading, the next paragraph >> automatically becomes Subheading and the next Body_first and the >> folloing ones become Body) are some examples. >> >> /Peter >> > First, it should be noted that I have the latest versions of Scribus, > TeX, Gimp, Inkscape and Libre (formerly Open Office) on my computer. > > All free. > > To get the equivalent using commercial software I would have to buy > Microsoft Office, Illustrator, possibly Quark Xpress, InDesign, and > Distiller. I would also have to work with an inferior (IME) operating > system, Microsoft Windows. That in turn means I would have to buy and > update anti malware software. Updates to all these products cost > money. Chances are I wouldn't own them all. The worst part of all that is you would be using a bad OS that's prone to crashing apps and highly susceptible to malware. I avoid using any Microsoft software whenever possible.
