Hi Scott, I am using it for <grin>: - the first time - for a document that will be printed on 2 letter size pages, then folded and stuffed together - that document is the brochure to be handed out at User Group Connect on Feb 9. ((Sorry about that - after the interruption, sending the email later obviously did not work right!)) I am going to present my "what I got so far" to the OCLUG meeting Jan 3. Would you like to participate? You could do a follow up presentation or just add to mine by offering fixes, and then be in the Q and A. Rob -- Rob Echlin, B. Eng. 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON http://talksoftware.wordpress.com - http://picasaweb.google.com/coderoller >________________________________ > From: Scott McClare <mcclare [ at ] ncf [ dot ] ca> >To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:40:55 PM >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Scribus > >On 12/29/12 4:15 PM, Rob Echlin wrote: > >> Hi >> Does anyone here use Scribus? >> - It's GPL-licensed Page Layout software. > >Hi Rob. A few years ago, one of the coordinators of linux.com.au was a >guest speaker at one of OCLUG's meetings, and he had done the conference >literature in Scribus - a full-colour calendar/program, and as I recall, >possibly some pamphlets as well. It all looked very well done. > >I've used Scribus myself to layout 2- to 6-letter handouts in a >newsletter format (multiple columns, a few graphics) for Sunday-school >classes at church, as well as to design my own daybook-style calendar (a >work still in progress). > >My feeling is that Scribus is well suited for shorter, layout-intensive >documents such as newsletters, brochures, calendars, magazine articles, >and the like. However, it lacks essential features such as the ability >to generate tables of contents or indexes, so it is likely not suitable >for long documents, such as multi-chapter technical manuals. In other >words, it's more like PageMaker or InDesign than FrameMaker. (In fact, I >also use InDesign at work, and it's relatively easy to switch between it >and Scribus without much grief.) > >While it's been around for a pretty long time as large open-source >projects go, only a few years ago it still seemed a work in progress, >lacking features that I would have thought pretty fundamental, such as >the ability to set a right indent without a workaround. I think it's >matured quite well recently. Amongst the annoyances still around: it >treats every typeface as an individual entity rather than one face in a >larger font family (bold, italic, etc.), which means there's no B or I >button to quickly make boldface or italic type. Also, the developers >made the deliberate choice to have the PostScript output explicitly >locate each glyph individually on the page (instead of, by contrast, >line by line), so the PS or PDF output of even a short document can be >pretty large - several megabytes, as opposed to the 100-200 kilobytes >that you'd get out of a typical word processor. > >> I am trying it out and using it for the >> Thanks, >> Rob > >This is all we got. Using it for the . . . first time? For the annual >family newsletter? :) I'd be interested to know what you're planning to >do. I found Scribus' learning curve pretty steep, and if I didn't have a >project in mind that needed its particular abilities, it's likely I >never would have learned it at all. > >Take care, >Scott >_______________________________________________ >Linux mailing list >Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > >