Dear Marina you can see a comparision among DTP programs http://www.laidout.org/dtpcompare.html
- How steep a learning curve should I expect? In other words -will it take hours, days or weeks (for an 'old dog' who used to be a relatively fast learner) to get used to Scribus? within 2 weeks you will be definitely a pro - During one of the searches I ran on duckduckgo, I remember coming across a tutorial that highlighted the differences between Scribus and InDesign/QuarXpress. Apparently I did not bookmark it and don't seem to be able to find it any more. Any bells ringing...? I cant locate this file - I have InDesign files for a few manuals, as well as the resulting PDFs ready for printing. Individual chapters also exist in .doc format, minus some of the editing and a lot of the formatting. Is there any way to extract and convert to Scribus any of the formatting information from the PDF or InDesign files -especially margins and styles? that cant be actually predicted, convert to scribus maynot work to your full satisfaction, regards, Samuel, Bangalore, India On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:36 PM, mt <mt at lockedbags.org> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am considering Scribus after recently losing my HD (although not my user > data) and becoming "orphaned" of the Adobe CS 5 suite of applications. > Having never enjoyed Adobe products, nor their lousy "service", I'm taking > this 'problem' as a great opportunity to try something different. And > nothing beats Scribus price-wise of course! > > Must confess though I am a bit worried about the transition, so here are a > few real novice questions: > > - How steep a learning curve should I expect? In other words -will it take > hours, days or weeks (for an 'old dog' who used to be a relatively fast > learner) to get used to Scribus? > > - During one of the searches I ran on duckduckgo, I remember coming across > a tutorial that highlighted the differences between Scribus and > InDesign/QuarXpress. Apparently I did not bookmark it and don't seem to be > able to find it any more. Any bells ringing...? > > - I have InDesign files for a few manuals, as well as the resulting PDFs > ready for printing. Individual chapters also exist in .doc format, minus > some of the editing and a lot of the formatting. Is there any way to > extract and convert to Scribus any of the formatting information from the > PDF or InDesign files -especially margins and styles? > > Thanking you in advance, > > Ciao for now :-) > > marina > --- > Italy or Australia > MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, OS X 10.9.5 > MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.6.8 > www.mtadiello.com @martadiello > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20141029/8280b9dd/attachment.html>
