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If you’re looking for a good desktop publishing package and don’t want to mess with trying to get Quark or PageMaker to work with WINE, then you need to check out Scribus, the GPL’d desktop publishing package.
Reviews to date have pointed out some quirks in features and usability, but overall it still gets the job done and the developers are making great improvements with each release. A new version (1.1.7) was just released on June 5th, and there’s also a new tutorial that covers creating a magazine in Scribus from start to finish.
If you’re dual-booting or keeping an old box around to run Windows for DTP chores, check out Scribus; it just may solve your problem.
One Comment
Branko Vukelic
October 23rd, 2006
at 8:44am
Well, Scribus has certainly made an impact. But, we still need a good image editor and color managed vector drawing app.
As for image editors, GIMP team seems either incapable (highly unlikely, tho) of incorporating color management and CMYK support, or they are not even giving it a thought. Last I heard, they said they were completely dependent on devs of the base library that they use.
Krita is the player I’m looking forward to. It has a (slightly buggy) CMYK conversion, and the program is fully color managed.
The link is: http://www.koffice.org/krita/
The vector drawing apps section features Karbon14 from the KOffice suite, and the well-known Inkscape.
Karbon14: http://www.koffice.org/karbon/
Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/
FYI, Inkscape was conceived as an SVG editor, and as such, it is a great tool. However, it was not meant to be a fully featured vector drawing app that is much needed by DTP pros. I’m not really sure about Karbon16. From screenshots, it does look as if it supports CMYK colors, but Inkscape supports CMYK as well, and it’s not color managed, so I can’t say if Karbon is fit for the game or not….
My 2 cents. :)