[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of Page Maker 6?

[Gregory Pittman]

Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> Okay, now, Scribus. Personally, I think it is an amazing tool.
> However, it is as equally amazingly *frustrating* as it is in
> amazingly featureful and powerful.
Without addressing all of Jeffrey's complaints one by one, I think it 
can be said that his experience is either not typical or exaggerated.

There is a learning curve with Scribus. Because of the way it works, and 
needs to work, most will be unfamiliar with the immense differences from 
a word processor, which has a totally different purpose. Thus, it is 
unwise to decide to do some major project as your first one with 
Scribus. Make use of the various resources at your disposal. Pick the 
latest *stable* version and stick with it, until you have some 
reasonable mastery of how it works.

Depending on how you use it, Scribus can be very memory intensive. The 
size of image files can be a major drain on resources, and be mindful of 
what other programs are simultaneously running, and their memory 
requirements.

I'm not going to advocate any particular Linux distro, but will say that 
there are some problems with the various *buntu distros that are not the 
fault of Scribus. Nonetheless, many use them and with success.

Greg