<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Dear Marina</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">you can see a comparision among DTP programs</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.laidout.org/dtpcompare.html">http://www.laidout.org/dtpcompare.html</a></font><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div>- 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?</span><div><br></div><div>within 2 weeks you will be definitely a pro<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">- 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...?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></div><div>I cant locate this file<br><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">- 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?</span><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px">that cant be </span>actually<span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px"> predicted, convert to scribus maynot work to your full satisfaction, regards, Samuel, Bangalore, India</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:36 PM, mt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mt@lockedbags.org" target="_blank">mt@lockedbags.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings all,<br>
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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!<br>
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Must confess though I am a bit worried about the transition, so here are a few real novice questions:<br>
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- 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?<br>
<br>
- 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...?<br>
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- 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?<br>
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Thanking you in advance,<br>
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Ciao for now :-)<br>
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marina<br>
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