Comments on: Daily dose of Scribus trunk

By: foxoman

foxoman — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:46:06 +0000

Nice Mark .

But as an Arabic user scribus useless to me because it’s layout core engine doesn’t support Arabic .

I read once in an Arabic linux forum that the scribus developer suggested that someone should pay him to support Arabic or someone else should made it or we should wait until they move to new layout engine .!

Also viva designer doesn’t support Arabic yet .

http://www.viva.us/english/products/vivadesigner/

Now I’am stuck with openoffice.org to write my ubuntu magzine

http://foxoman.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a9-ubuntu-plus-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ab%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a/

the result is fair enough when trying to follow professional magazine design with only openoffice.org and gimp

By: Graham Todd

Graham Todd — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:54:51 +0000

I echo the words of Juan, but think it should be possible for somebody in the Ubuntu Docs project to write a comprehensible and easy-to-use guide for Lyx.

The real trouble is that Open Office is now so large that most people (students?) want a standalone word processor like Abiword, but with much greater indexing and authoring tools. This is great news for Scribus users but with added text formatting tools, Passepartout could become a real rival in a few years’ time.

For the time being, kudos to all who have made this available – including Mr. Shuttleworth.

Graham

By: James Tocknell

James Tocknell — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:50:10 +0000

I find that TeX/LaTeX occupy a different part of DTP than Scribus. LaTeX would be used for long documents, whereas Scribus is used from brochures/posters etc. Also, LyX can assist in making LaTeX more user-friendly. I do have to say though I very rarely use OO.o, unless to open MS documents.

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Daily dose of Scribus trunkMark Shuttleworth | 9nd.pl — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:00:16 +0000

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By: Juan

Juan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:19:04 +0000

Question – what is the most important part of any technical manual?
Answer – would you believe it is the Index?
Why?
Because I do not know of a single technical document user who would not immediately flip over to the Index and start searching for the words and terms of interest.
And the sense of frustration and disappointment is very real when the user cannot find an Index at the back.
You need to provide an index and do it well if you are writing a manual over 30 or 40 pages long.
- Scribus has no tools available for indexing.
- OpenOffice.org has very limited indexing tools.
- LaTeX is complete, but is not user-friendly.
What a pity!
For those interested, I recommend this article.
http://www.allegrotechindexing.com/indexingtools.pdf
Bye

By: Sameer Verma

Sameer Verma — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:08:22 +0000

This is terrific news. I’ve been using Scribus in my multimedia class at SFSU for a few semesters now. We even did Scribus-based flyers for OLPC ClassActs project, inspired by the Ubuntu case studies layout. Here’s my !OLPC Classacts flyer built using Scribus, http://is.gd/f8Sk5 which my class then used to build 30+ different “stories” from the OLPC projects around the world! I am thrilled to hear that Scribus will get some dogfooding love within Canonical.

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» Mark Shuttleworth: Scribus è aggiornato su Lucid e Maverick — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:40:14 +0000

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Mark Shuttleworth: Scribus è aggiornato su Lucid e Maverick | Giovanni Raco — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:45:17 +0000

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By: K.

K. — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:22:05 +0000

Hi,

Just an advice : you should rethink your position about proprietary software in the software center, ubuntu will loose its good image in the core devellopers, and you should targeting the hardware market.

Thank you, have a nice life.

By: Wynand Meyering

Wynand Meyering — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:37:29 +0000

Soon Facebook will be worth $33bn at least when it does its IPO. I encourage Mark Shuttleworth to take more risks and invest in the Internet sector. He might just choose more winners and create more winners.