Scribus 1.0 released [LWN.net]

Scribus 1.0 released

Posted Jul 17, 2003 22:16 UTC (Thu) by WillAdams (guest, #13002)
In reply to: Scribus 1.0 released by allesfresser
Parent article: Scribus 1.0 released

The problem with Scribus though is it doesn't really extend DTP capabilities beyond what's
available elsewhere---okay, it's free, it's open source, and it's got an XML fileformat---all
well and good, but the H&J seems to be the classic old brain-dead one-line at a time, one
line can be loose and the next tight, the UI doesn't strike me as interesting or innovative
from what I can tell of the screen shots---which brings me to the biggest problem, the last
time I tried to run this, it segfaulted when I tried to load it.

Anyone running this new version in Mac OS X yet?

I'd be more inclined to try again if this offered H&J as good as pdfTeX (HZ algorithm /
margin-kerning) and a UI which is an improvement on Adobe InDesign (that shouldn't be
that hard---I loathe ID's UI and mislike even more the UI of the program which it's based
on, Adobe Illustrator)

William

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Scribus 1.0 released

Posted Jul 18, 2003 22:13 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I agree, Scribus does very much feel its age (in other words, a first release). In fact, on one machine I haven't been able to get it to actually put any text into a text box--nothing comes out when I create a text box and then choose the edit tool and type. It's very Quark-ish in its appearance too, from my POV. (That's not a good thing.) I actually rather like the InDesign UI... but to each its own, eh?

In summary, equaling InDesign 2 or Quark 6 is a tall order for anyone, considering the large amount of history and cash behind those two applications. The progress so far with Scribus is very much laudable and appreciated. :-)