Scribus under YDL-4.0

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Thank you, Clint.

(1) Scribus is a "reasonable" open source replacement for PageMaker and
friends. 

(2) Scribus does run under OSX.


-Joseph

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On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 11:36, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> Dr. Sacco:
> 
> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Since many of the recent posts submitted to this list are
> > about things that are broken or don't work well, I thought
> > I would post something "more positive" for a change.
> 
> A breath of fresh air, sir!
> 
> > I downloaded and built "Scribus"
> >
> > http://www.scribus.org.uk/index.php
> > 
> > For those who are unfamiliar with this package, Scibus is
> > a professional desktop publishing package that is touted
> > as one of *the* killer applications for Linux. Scibus is
> > a very nice complement to the other "office" tools
> > packaged with YDL-4.
> 
> Well done, and thanks for the report. Scribus is one of the programs I
> want to add to my armamentarium. It looks to be a great open source
> version of PageMaker/Quark Express that is undergoing very active
> development. I look forward to giving it a whirl (and I wonder how well
> it will be supported on the Mac OS X side -- that would be a big market
> for Scribus, I suspect).
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
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