The first?

The first?

Posted Jul 16, 2003 18:02 UTC (Wed) by utidjian (subscriber, #444)
In reply to: The first? by wjhenney
Parent article: Scribus 1.0 released

Well yes, as a GUI DTP app it is the first that I have seen. LaTeX et al, are hardly DTP apps. I have been using the excellent LyX (http://www.lyx.org) for years. LyX is, IMHO, the best document processing application for creating scientific documents that are "press-ready" for journals or just local use. It doesn't require any LaTeX or TeX knowledge at all... but if you know the TeX language you can put it to good use with LyX.

Scribus now fills in the problem of having a DTP app on par with Quark. There are things that Quark (and similar programs from Adobe) are good for that LaTeX and LyX and Open Office etc... just can't do. Scribus is a niche application. As with Quark it won't be on everyones desktop. It is not a general purpose word processor.

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