[Scribus] Mac OS port

steve mail
Sun Mar 6 01:03:51 CET 2005


On Saturday 05 March 2005 22:51, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:05 +0100, steve wrote:
> > Just a thought but macs are very expensive for what
> > they do. For $600 you can get a fast Linux workstation
> > with a decent graphics card running native up to date
> > Scribus and save a lot of time until you have your
> > port. It could save your company time and money just
> > now. If you get fed up with it, use it as a fileserver,
> > firewall or windows games machine :-)
>
> While this may be true if all you need is Scribus, for
> many that's just not enough. Photoshop, for example, may
> be required - or Adobe Acrobat Pro. Anyway, once you've
> paid for software that expensive, the hardware (alas!)
> almost pales in comparison.

If you want photoshop and acrobat then use windows dual boot 
on the same PC that you use to run Scribus under Linux. The 
windows versions cost less and run faster anyway.

Just trying to help.  We left crashintosh 18 months ago :-)




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