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RE: [seul-edu] Linux DTP
No longer beta - version 1 was released last month. See:
http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/
Cheers
Chris
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From: Alessandro Aprile
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Sent: 8/6/03 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Linux DTP
Scribus: it's in beta, but is a "real" dtp as for PageMaker (with a
looot of absent advanced features, well, but is young) and it's gpl'd.
i've not tried yet, but a lot of people speak well about it.
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I use Netscape composer for quick DTP. You get WYSIWYG, all the HTML
markup you'd desire, tables, hyperlinks, and ... javascript!
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From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
Of Dave Prentice
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:06 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP
Richard,
I downloaded and tried lyx. It doesn't seem to fit the bill either.
Besides the fact that it isn't true WYSIWYG and besides the irritating
screen colors that I couldn't figure out how to change, it seems to work
with one continuous text frame from beginning to end. Instead, we need
the ability to create multiple text frames of various sizes on each
page, each one for a separate story and each individually linkable to
other pages in the publication.
PageMaker exactly suits the needs of this DTP class. Since it isn't
Linux, though, FrameMaker is the closest thing.
Ruled out so far: Impress, Airstream, and Lyx. Still waiting for
further response from icesculptor. Their demo is for i686, so they said
they would recompile it for i386 and let me try it.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
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From: prytherch@talk21.com <prytherch@talk21.com>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP
Hi,
> I checked out the "Impress" program, supposedly DTP, and wanted to
give a followup report. While the graphics capabilitites are excellent,
as far as DTP it's just a basic program you might use to create cards
and one-page flyers. The text capabilities are extremely limited -- just
a few lines here and there, with no capability to make and link frames.
It would be extremely hard to create anything like a newsletter or
booklet with it.
> Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Hmm, I suppose Artstream would be too pricey at $295?
(www.mediascape.com/products.html). It imports postscript. From the
site: "Layout typography using any Type1 font. Flow multiple stories
through Bezier based margins and text paths across multiple pages.
Compose with customizable styles. Paragraph and character specifications
include precision controls for justification, leading, tabs, kerning,
hyphenation, baselines, rotation, drop-shadows, transparency and
more...."
Alternatively Lyx maybe the best long-term investment (in learning
terms).
- Richard S
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