[scribus] When is a new release for Windows coming out?

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 04:03:40 pm Nick Vettese wrote:
> I think that the correct statement for below would be the
> following....
>
> * Every Windows software tool that you think you need has
> an Open Source *equivalent*. That may be very different
> on the surface! But that is also better, faster, easier
> to use, has better community resources.
>
> Stating that software has a Linux Equivalent is telling
> him that each piece of software comes with the Linux
> Kernel.
>
> But I digress... :)
>
> nick
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeffrey Silverman <jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com>
> To: Scribus User Mailing List
> <scribus at lists.scribus.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 4,
> 2009 3:28:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [scribus] When is a new release for Windows
> coming out?
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Phil Ward
> <skeggy78 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> * Every Windows software tool that you think you need has
> a Linux *equivalent*. That may be very different on the
> surface! But that is also better, faster, easier to use,
> has better community resources.
>
> later...

There is no full Linux equivalent to Adobe Distiller. LSI, a 
very important printer in the USA requires that cover art 
be in an obsolete pdf standard called (I think) X/1:2001. 
If it is not LSI does bad things to your cover art like 
rasterizing it twice.   Distiller will do the conversion 
(or perversion if you prefer.) Nothing in the free software 
world will.  It has to say 2001 in the pdf file. Pdf 1.3 is 
equivalent but that does not matter to LSI. 
 
Gimp does not operate in CMYK mode.  At this point neither 
does Inkscape stable version. 

I have used Linux and free software for more than a decade. 
But not everything helpful in publishing is yet available 
under Linux.


-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
http://wexfordpress.com