by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday May 27, 2011 @06:25PM (#36268284)
Since OpenOffice.org keeps saying they will not include a Microsoft Publisher clone in their Office suite, Scribus is all we have for DTP needs, so it deserves some attention, even if it comes from a Warsaw-Packt member. Unfortunately the 1.3x branch will no longer be developed and instead you can now download 1.40 RC3 for production environments (1.40 files can not be loaded in 1.3x). Conclusion: wait for the 1.40 version of the book.
And how long before 1.3.3 was retired? It hasn't been, it's still the current stable. Many of us use the 1.3.4+ versions because the 1.3.3 has become (comparatively with the RCs) pretty limited. But I would not hold my breath on 1.4 going stable soon.
As far as how it is, I rank it along side pagemaker without all the nice spelling check, or fancy plug-ins, etc. But it is definitely something you can seriously publish with. The PDF and preflight features are a dream.
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Since OpenOffice.org keeps saying they will not include a Microsoft Publisher clone in their Office suite, Scribus is all we have for DTP needs, so it deserves some attention, even if it comes from a Warsaw-Packt member. Unfortunately the 1.3x branch will no longer be developed and instead you can now download 1.40 RC3 for production environments (1.40 files can not be loaded in 1.3x). Conclusion: wait for the 1.40 version of the book.
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And how long before 1.3.3 was retired? It hasn't been, it's still the current stable. Many of us use the 1.3.4+ versions because the 1.3.3 has become (comparatively with the RCs) pretty limited. But I would not hold my breath on 1.4 going stable soon.
As far as how it is, I rank it along side pagemaker without all the nice spelling check, or fancy plug-ins, etc. But it is definitely something you can seriously publish with. The PDF and preflight features are a dream.
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Minor nitpick: I'm pretty sure Scribus doesn't come from Packt, just this wankery of a book...