[scribus] Scribus vs. PageMaker 7.0

[Thomas Wyatt]

Hi All,

I saw this application on filehippo.com and decided to download it. I
see it resembles my current document application PageMaker 7.0a. I am a
newspaper publisher in my family business and never made the jump to any
other program like InDesign. I wanted to know from you all if Scribus is
powerful and dependable enough to use as a primary newspaper maker. My
papers are published once a week every Friday. PageMaker has been great,
but I'm ready to move on to something more updated. Any feedback and
comparisons of the two programs would be greatly appreciated; especially
the pros and cons.

Regards,
Tom

[a.l.e]

hi thomas,

Post by Thomas Wyatt
I saw this application on filehippo.com and decided to download it. I
see it resembles my current document application PageMaker 7.0a. I am
a newspaper publisher in my family business and never made the jump
to any other program like InDesign. I wanted to know from you all if
Scribus is powerful and dependable enough to use as a primary
newspaper maker. My papers are published once a week every Friday.
PageMaker has been great, but I'm ready to move on to something more
updated. Any feedback and comparisons of the two programs would be
greatly appreciated; especially the pros and cons.

i've not used pagemaker for ages, but as far as i can remember, scribus
does most things page maker does.

the biggest problem you will have with scribus is that the undo system
has not been implemented yet for the text changes.

on the plus side, you certainly have the chance to be sure that you
(almost) never will loose your work through file corruption (it did
happen for every third issue as i was producing a monthly newspaper
years ago with pagemaker).

depending your newspaper characteristics you will notice more
differences...
(seeing a pdf of the result may help us to tell you what you will be
missing and what are the advantages in using scribus.


if you want to make a big contribution to scribus you can install it
and write a comparison with pm from your point of view.
we will be here and answer every question you have concerning how to
achieve your goals with scribus!

ciao
a.l.e

[Margaret and George McIntosh]

Post by Thomas Wyatt
Hi All,
I saw this application on filehippo.com and decided to download it. I
see it resembles my current document application PageMaker 7.0a. I am a
newspaper publisher in my family business and never made the jump to any
other program like InDesign. I wanted to know from you all if
Scribus is
powerful and dependable enough to use as a primary newspaper maker. My
papers are published once a week every Friday. PageMaker has been great,
but I'm ready to move on to something more updated. Any feedback and
comparisons of the two programs would be greatly appreciated;
especially
the pros and cons.
Regards,
Tom

I do a quarterly newsletter, so it is not as big as yours nor as often, I used Pagemaker
6.5 for many years and have used Scribus for the past 2 issues. I switched because
Adobe has not continued support for Pagemaker and with each new version of
Windows fewer things work.

Scribus is different but not that much. It has no spellcheck and requires a frame for
images. Also several smaller differences. Once you get past the learning curve it does
all the things I want. I suggest you give it a try but maybe you want to do it in parallel
with Pagemaker for a while.

George

[José Antonio Rocha]

In Scribus, you make text columns "inside" a text frame, like
InDesign, QuarkXpress or Ventura. In PageMaker, you may draw every
single column.

The most important shortcut in Scribus is F2, the toolbox.

2010/8/18 Thomas Wyatt <raiders5000 at msn.com>

?Hi All,
I saw this application on filehippo.com and decided to download it. I see it resembles my current document application PageMaker 7.0a. I am a newspaper publisher in my family business and never made the jump to any other program like InDesign. I wanted to know from you all if Scribus is powerful and dependable enough to use as a primary newspaper maker. My papers are published once a week every Friday. PageMaker has been great, but I'm ready to move on to something more updated. Any feedback and comparisons of the two programs would be greatly appreciated; especially the pros and cons.
Regards,
Tom

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