Re: [Usability] Thoughts on GNOME and DTP


--- Alan Horkan <horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Through we now have Scribus under QT, there is
still a notable lack of
applications in this area.

It would be a lot of work to develop and maintain
any fully featured
Desktop Publishing software. I'm impressed how
Scribus has been sucessful
in generating interest and getting people to help
out.

I do not always use only Gnome applications and
Scribus seems to be a
really great application.

About six months ago I took a look at Scribus.
I needed to make a simple mockup of a page design for
a book: fairly standard DTP work.
I couldn't do it, because of things such as lack of
snap, a box model I couldn't fathom, and ugly fonts,
though the last isn't Scribus's fault.
Sorry to be negative, but speaking from experience,
it's not yet at the level of Aldus Pagemaker in the
Windows 3.1 days.



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