Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 01, 2006 12:36 PM
I use Lyx regularly and like it (check out my <a href="http://therandymon.com/content/view/16/79/" title="therandymon.com">Woodnotes Guide to
Emacs for Writers</a therandymon.com>, written entirely in LaTeX, but both LaTeX and Lyx
are tools written for another task.
Desktop publishing is different and requires different tools. I happen
to use Adobe CS (formerly Pagemaker) because it's feature complete and
because Scribus is still weak in some ways that are important to me,
plus it doesn't run well on my old PIII 550Mhz Linux box, while Adobe
runs well on my shiny new powerbook.
But I still give Scribus a lot of kudos and look forward to when it can
handle more complex tasks. For one, it creates better PDF than any
other document producer I know of, including Writer. It allows you to
downsample images on the fly and has the right idea about text
formatting mechanisms. Don't get me wrong, I dig LaTeX but I use it for
what it was intended for, like my woodnotes guide. Publications that
are graphics intensive don't work well in LaTeX, which, for graphics,
offers fewer features.
As always, the rule is, use the right tool for the job. For some jobs,
Scribus is just the right tool.
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Re:OK for a brochure, but a book???
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 01, 2006 12:36 PMI use Lyx regularly and like it (check out my <a href="http://therandymon.com/content/view/16/79/" title="therandymon.com">Woodnotes Guide to
Emacs for Writers</a therandymon.com>, written entirely in LaTeX, but both LaTeX and Lyx
are tools written for another task.
Desktop publishing is different and requires different tools. I happen
to use Adobe CS (formerly Pagemaker) because it's feature complete and
because Scribus is still weak in some ways that are important to me,
plus it doesn't run well on my old PIII 550Mhz Linux box, while Adobe
runs well on my shiny new powerbook.
But I still give Scribus a lot of kudos and look forward to when it can
handle more complex tasks. For one, it creates better PDF than any
other document producer I know of, including Writer. It allows you to
downsample images on the fly and has the right idea about text
formatting mechanisms. Don't get me wrong, I dig LaTeX but I use it for
what it was intended for, like my woodnotes guide. Publications that
are graphics intensive don't work well in LaTeX, which, for graphics,
offers fewer features.
As always, the rule is, use the right tool for the job. For some jobs,
Scribus is just the right tool.
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