Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 01, 2006 07:29 AM
Reading these comments makes me wonder if anyone actually knows what a professional layout program does. Comparing Scribus to OOWriter is like Postgres to OOBase. They just aren't the same apps, sure, they share some concepts, but they do different things.
Anyone who imports formatted text is a fool. Period. Full stop. Carriage return. Think orphans, widows, earlugs and linked text boxes for the reasons why. Then after that, think _design_.
Anyone who doesn't understand why graphics are a separate entity from the document hasn't worked with an 40 MB Tiff on a single page in a 40 pg magazine in 8 page forms.
Nor do they comprehend running to single page seps for form layout, film or plate seps via an OPI process instead of "print to file".
Anyone who doesn't understand the difference between an oblique font and "italics" doesn't understand the profession. (See above about real fonts.)
Remember . . . process to press, not print to printer. That means that a doc might go through four or more different machines for processing. OPI, seperation, PDF, Film, plate, press. If anyone of those doesn't support font styles you end up w/ courier. That's why real fonts (PS, TTF) include a normal, bold, and oblique font in all variations.
It isn't uncommon for a 40 page document to be broken up into 5 files each with non-sequential pagination. (Depending on press and bindery; work and turn, work and tumble, straight-through)
Scribus isn't your friendly neighbourhood Office Suite and shouldn't be used as such.
If you want to do layout that's useable in PDF form by almost any commercial printer then it's the tool to use. If you want to write a letter, it isn't, stick to OO.
Comparing AutoCad and GIMP (Hey! they both do lines then must be comparable!), comparing AccPac and GnuCash, they both tally numbers! Foolish article.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 01, 2006 07:29 AMAnyone who imports formatted text is a fool. Period. Full stop. Carriage return. Think orphans, widows, earlugs and linked text boxes for the reasons why. Then after that, think _design_.
Anyone who doesn't understand why graphics are a separate entity from the document hasn't worked with an 40 MB Tiff on a single page in a 40 pg magazine in 8 page forms.
Nor do they comprehend running to single page seps for form layout, film or plate seps via an OPI process instead of "print to file".
Anyone who doesn't understand the difference between an oblique font and "italics" doesn't understand the profession. (See above about real fonts.)
Remember . . . process to press, not print to printer. That means that a doc might go through four or more different machines for processing. OPI, seperation, PDF, Film, plate, press. If anyone of those doesn't support font styles you end up w/ courier. That's why real fonts (PS, TTF) include a normal, bold, and oblique font in all variations.
It isn't uncommon for a 40 page document to be broken up into 5 files each with non-sequential pagination. (Depending on press and bindery; work and turn, work and tumble, straight-through)
Scribus isn't your friendly neighbourhood Office Suite and shouldn't be used as such.
If you want to do layout that's useable in PDF form by almost any commercial printer then it's the tool to use. If you want to write a letter, it isn't, stick to OO.
Comparing AutoCad and GIMP (Hey! they both do lines then must be comparable!), comparing AccPac and GnuCash, they both tally numbers! Foolish article.
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