[Scribus] imposition or reader?

[Craig Bradney]

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 21:22, linuxlingam wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> am just thinking aloud to myself:
> 
> a download of adobeacrobat reader 5.0.8, at a whopping 9mb, is happening
> in the background. so far, all the pdfs created from scribus look
> disappointing when rendered under linux-native utilities such as xpdf,
> kpdf, and several others.

Yes.. use acroread.. the rest suck (until they get better)

> also read on the scribus site that i could even consider running acrobat
> under wine.

Possible.

> so all this makes me think: wouldn't it be great if rather than
> imposition, the pdf-viewing and rendering issue had its own GPLed
> utility? then scribus could be used as both dtp and as adobe designer
> 9the acrobat forms designer), and the scribusPDFviewer, or whatever you
> call it, the much-needed pdf-display and handling software. no need to
> write it from scratch. just advance the work of the existing pdf
> viewers.
> 
> please, this is just my two bits on this. just a thought that occurred
> to me.

Nice idea.. but lets work on one product. Concentrate.. 

As Peter replied, before Scribus there was nothing that could produce
PDFs like Scribus on Linux.

Lead and they will follow...

Craig
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