Re: Scribus vs ConTeXt

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2012-02-28 um 21:20 schrieb Jaroslav Hajtmar:

>
> Hello,
> I work quite often with Scribus (but I am not expert). I use it  
> mainly to leaflets, posters (great tools for posters for me) and  
> other similar things that contain a lot of graphics, overlays, etc.  
> I can imagine writing a small magazine with lots of images, etc. For  
> extensive work (thesis and large documents with a large majority of  
> the text) in the Scribus current version can not imagine it. Those  
> who can not nothing in TeX or ConTeXt Scribus is an interesting  
> option. It's clickable tool that allows to one who does not  
> understand typography and not feeling for it  do make a nice shit.
> Typography expert can produce very nice documents. Or also, someone  
> who has a great feel for typography.
> Scribus is developing quite quickly and quite well with developers  
> trying to improve it. For some time it will definitely be a tool  
> that can tread on the heels of InDesign

But it still lacks a lot of essential features for professional work  
(at least in my area), e.g. usable master pages and nondestructional  
import of vector graphics (esp. PDF), CMYK and spot colors. Correct me  
if it gained these lastly - I know they're working on it, but the  
development speed is much much slower than ConTeXt’s. Maybe it’s more  
stable and reliable therefore...

Scribus has at least one feature that sets it ahead of InDesign  
(besides being Open Source): render frames (similar functionality as  
ConTeX’s filter module - replace foreign sourcecode by its result).

Greetlings,
Hraban
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