Re: [school-discuss] Scribus Publishing anyone reviewed?

[Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>]

I was looking more to include it later on when it hits 1.0 probably as a 
good desktop publishing for school's. I know schools do alot of flyers and 
things of this nature. It looks good from a software standpoint I just 
have not had a chance to play with it yet.


> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 3:23 am, William Abernathy wrote:
> > paul wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 May 2002 14:27, you wrote:
> > >>http://apps.kde.com/uk/0/show/id/1064/ss?sid=50f81921de1b1836ade08ce2af00
> > >>4f f3
> > >>
> > >>Anyone reviewed or tried this software yet?
> >
> > I tried it about six months ago, and I couldn't get it to go. I assume it's
> > gotten better. If it works, it will be excellent for newsletters, but it
> > will always be a second sister in the world of pro prepress -- suitable for
> > newsletters and newspapers, but not for things like color packaging design.
> >
> > Any such software (free prepress) faces a serious hurdle in commercial
> > acceptance: spot color. Just as the DVD codecs can be owned and fenced off,
> > the important standard for color reproduction (the PANTONE colors) is owned
> > and maintained by a single company, and you can't use their color
> > designations in your software if you don't pay for it.
> >
> > Not cricket in the free software world...
> >
> 
> I would have thought the way around this kind of thing is to either have two 
> versions (like OpenOffice and StarOffice) or have a commercial (paid for) 
> 'plugin'.
> 
> That way home users get a completely free and open source product suitable 
> for home use, and commercial users pay get get a commercial but 90% open 
> source product.  Hopefully any such vendor would give a discount to 
> educational institutions.  :-)
> 
> I would see this as a big improvement over a 100% closed source option, and I 
> think in a number of cases the only way for open source products to match 
> commercial products in some areas.  (ie, where there is more than just 'code' 
> at stake).
> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> Rasjid.
> 

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