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Re: Scribus
by Michael on Thursday 14/Dec/2006, @23:55

You are not necessarily "missing" something. It depends on what you want to achieve. There is already a lot you can achieve with Scribus. But with "professional" I mean >50.000 EUR so I'm talking about a different category here. And in this category the price of software becomes somewhat irrelevant. In order to convince my colleagues to use Scribus instead of InDesign it simply has to be on par in every respect. This is _by far_ not the case - like it or not. I'm not saying it could never be there. But right now:

- Coprehensive table support
- PSD support
- PANTONE and HKS names out of the box
- General usability
- Still lots of bugs with complicated layouts

Some of these things will only need a bit more time. Others are more difficult to achieve because of stupid patents and proprietary stuff.

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Re: Scribus
by Alexandre on Friday 15/Dec/2006, @00:05

> - PSD support

Makes me wonder how well you actually know what Scribus can do for you :) When I say that Scribus supports RGB/CMYK PSD and handles its layers, blending modes and clipping paths (and 1.3.4cvs supports duotone PSD), do you mean support for some other PSD features?

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Re: Scribus
by Martin on Saturday 16/Dec/2006, @01:45

I just tried it out. Didnt work great the last time I tried it. Works really great now I agree. My problem with PSD support under Linux is still that it only supports features up to Photoshop 6 though. More and more often I get Photoshop CS files which appear completely scrambled in GIMP, Krita, Scribus though. This is because Adobe pulls a M$ here I know but something _is_ already imported so the basic binary structure of the file should be clear. I'm wondering: Is it really that difficult to figure out the missing parts or is it more that those features (like layer effects) are not all implemented yet properly?

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Re: Scribus
by Alexandre on Tuesday 19/Dec/2006, @10:48

They say, reverse engineering is a job for young guys who live in countries where it's not legally prohibited :)

First of all, this is a quite long and boring work for someone who has much spare time. Then you need native features that match features of PS to make it reasonable supporting stuff like layer effects.

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