Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-20 Thread Linux Lingam
i work professionally with scribus, inkscape, and gimp, in print-production workflows. for a short while, also worked extensively with cinepaint. things work, once you know your way around. oo.o has its advantages, too. the typography engine of oo.i is great, perhaps inspired by TeX to a great e

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
> OpenOffice is quite good enough and we are using OpenOffice is print > an magazine in Telugu (in A5 size). We typeset the document in A5 and > print it in broacher mode to get 2 pages on one side of paper. > > Here is a sample pdf for your reference. > > http://kottapalli.in/static/pdf/kottapalli

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > Hi Brijithp, shrinivasan and Zaki > > Nope OOO is not good enough - try and make a A5 size multipage booklet > - its eventually ends up in a hack job - OOO does not offer any tools > to reorder printing such that it knows what comes after the

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Zaki Manian
Scribus really shines in doing DTP work in industrial settings rather than a creative setting. We use it for package inserts and the occasional insert. It does get a little hacky but it take a small amount of intervention from a savy user to turn a scribus document into a PDF that they can print

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > Hi > > am interested in knowing if there are any folks doing professional / > semi professional or high quality work using Ubuntu (or any flavour of > linux) > > if so what tools do you use. > > The interest is because i find it very hard to

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Zaki, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Zaki Manian wrote: > Hey Ram, > > Does this not work? http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet > > Would be good to know if somone had tried and failed. > yes it does, but its still a hack job with too many variables first a quote from th

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Zaki Manian
Hey Ram, Does this not work? http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet Would be good to know if somone had tried and failed. US number: +1 650-862-5992 Indian Number:+919945111824 Sent from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > Hi Br

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-19 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Brijithp, shrinivasan and Zaki Nope OOO is not good enough - try and make a A5 size multipage booklet - its eventually ends up in a hack job - OOO does not offer any tools to reorder printing such that it knows what comes after the first page - Sure scribus is good to layout stuff etc- but the

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-18 Thread Zaki Manian
We mostly use Scribus. It seems to have best DTP tools in Linux. US number: +1 650-862-5992 Indian Number:+919945111824 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM, BR!j!TH wrote: > I think Openoffice can do what ever you want .. .. > > 2009/10/19 Ramnarayan.K > > Hi >> >> am interested in knowing if

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi, What are the tools you are using? OO writer and scribus are good tools. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://

Re: [ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-18 Thread BR!j!TH
I think Openoffice can do what ever you want .. .. 2009/10/19 Ramnarayan.K > Hi > > am interested in knowing if there are any folks doing professional / > semi professional or high quality work using Ubuntu (or any flavour of > linux) > > if so what tools do you use. > > The interest is because

[ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

2009-10-18 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi am interested in knowing if there are any folks doing professional / semi professional or high quality work using Ubuntu (or any flavour of linux) if so what tools do you use. The interest is because i find it very hard to produce different outputs and they are mostly hack jobs and are not co