[scribus] InDesign to Scribus

[Duleep Samuel]

Dear Marina
you can see a comparision among DTP programs

http://www.laidout.org/dtpcompare.html

- How steep a learning curve should I expect? In other words -will it take
hours, days or weeks (for an 'old dog' who used to be a relatively fast
learner) to get used to Scribus?

within 2 weeks you will be definitely a pro

- During one of the searches I ran on duckduckgo, I remember coming across
a tutorial that highlighted the differences between Scribus and
InDesign/QuarXpress. Apparently I did not bookmark it and don't seem to be
able to find it any more. Any bells ringing...?

I cant locate this file

- I have InDesign files for a few manuals, as well as the resulting PDFs
ready for printing. Individual chapters also exist in .doc format, minus
some of the editing and a lot of the formatting. Is there any way to
extract and convert to Scribus any of the formatting information from the
PDF or InDesign files -especially margins and styles?

that cant be actually predicted, convert to scribus maynot work to your
full satisfaction, regards, Samuel, Bangalore, India

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:36 PM, mt <mt at lockedbags.org> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I am considering Scribus after recently losing my HD (although not my user
> data) and becoming "orphaned" of the Adobe CS 5 suite of applications.
> Having never enjoyed Adobe products, nor their lousy "service", I'm taking
> this 'problem' as a great opportunity to try something different. And
> nothing beats Scribus price-wise of course!
>
> Must confess though I am a bit worried about the transition, so here are a
> few real novice questions:
>
> - How steep a learning curve should I expect? In other words -will it take
> hours, days or weeks (for an 'old dog' who used to be a relatively fast
> learner) to get used to Scribus?
>
> - During one of the searches I ran on duckduckgo, I remember coming across
> a tutorial that highlighted the differences between Scribus and
> InDesign/QuarXpress. Apparently I did not bookmark it and don't seem to be
> able to find it any more. Any bells ringing...?
>
> - I have InDesign files for a few manuals, as well as the resulting PDFs
> ready for printing. Individual chapters also exist in .doc format, minus
> some of the editing and a lot of the formatting. Is there any way to
> extract and convert to Scribus any of the formatting information from the
> PDF or InDesign files -especially margins and styles?
>
> Thanking you in advance,
>
> Ciao for now :-)
>
> marina
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