[ale] DTP for Linux

Mark Angeli webmaster at tinyminds.org
Mon Oct 20 09:41:03 EDT 2003


Scribus is covered in this month's Linux Journal.... rather nice looking
software (It does CMYK and RGB)

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:11, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> Last week there was a question about DTP for Linux (Sorry, I deleted the 
> original request).  Many people suggested Scribus, which does sound good, but 
> I wanted to add the suggestion of Kword, the Koffice word processor.
> 
> I worked my way through the Kword tutorial this weekend.  It makes the point 
> repeatedly that Kword is much more than a word processor, it is acually a 
> full layout program suitable for publishing.  By this I mean you can, say, 
> start two columns on the first page and have one continue on the second page 
> and the other continue on the third.
> 
> Not being a DTP user I can't speak to the completeness of Kword, but it should 
> be considered as an option.  And since Koffice 1.3 is almost out, it should 
> be new and improved very soon.
> 
> Michael
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