Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:45, Pueblo Native wrote:
While not completely disagreeing with you, I think there are a couple of
levels between professional publisher and home user. The most common
one I would think of is a person who runs a small newsletter for an
organization or club of some sort. They don't need _all_ the features
of an InDesign, but they would like the publication to come off a little
more professionally. Another group might be people that run a
professional document, but infrequently (an annual or semi-annual
report) and their primary business is not publishing. I really wouldn't
want to shell out close to a grand for a program I use very infrequently.

This is a long thread about something that seems to me to be a non-issue.
Scribus does what you specify here, and is also intended for pro-am work
where you hand things off to printers. It is cross-platform, handles PDFs to
a very high standard, and is intended to work closely with Inkscape for
non-photo graphics. Is there any reason why the OP, after having looked at
it, is casting around (almost perversely, one might say) for something else?

Scribus is very easy to use (my 13-year old found his way around it easily,
and I can assure you I found it a lot easier than Microsoft Publisher), but
has also been the basis for "proper" publishing work (there was a series in
Linux Magazine last year from someone who was using it to publish a community
newspaper in Belfast).

So instead of spending time looking at "alternatives" which are not going to
be as good, the OP would be better advised, IMO, to start experimenting with
Scribus.

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