[Scribus] Scribus tutorial in c't

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 04 September 2006 23:25, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> Am Montag, 4. September 2006 22:54 schrieb Craig Bradney:
> > On Monday 04 September 2006 21:58, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > > Dnia poniedzia?ek, 4 wrze?nia 2006 19:04, Gregory Pittman napisa?:
> > > > > those of you who can get hold of c't magazine and can read German
> > > > > might be interested in the current issue (19/2006). It contains a
> > > > > four page Scribus tutorial on the production of photo books and
> > > > > posters (pp. 110-113). Scribus 1.3.3.3 for Win32 and Linux is
> > > > > shipped on a CD-ROM which also contains the tutorial files. The
> > > > > CD-ROM also offers a collection of 670 free fonts. Haven't checked
> > > > > the quality, though.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think you can worry so much about the quality of the review.
> > >
> > > AFAIU Christoph was worrying about quality of attached fonts, not
> > > review itself :)
> >
> > They also got the fact wrong that pdflib.cpp from Scribus does not relate
> > at all to the PDFLib external library.
> >
> > Craig
>
> Be that as it may, the comments in the tutorial were quite positive. What
> the author criticised is well known here (tables, non-editable frames in
> master pages, missing drop shadows for frames), but he explained the
> workarounds. He also mentioned Scribus' ability to have different page
> formats in one document (in contrast to QXP and ID).

Luckily, those missing things will all arrive in 1.3.x.

> All things considered, this is very good. I mean, _four_ pages in c't, plus
> a small article somewhere else in the issue I mentioned.  A lot of
> companies would gladly pay tons of money for that ...

For sure. I'll be buying it tomorrow.

Craig
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