Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and Uniconvertor
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ken Springer <snowshed1@...3003...> wrote:
Not being "end-to-end" is an issue where it seems most open
source projects
have some catching up to do. Plus bugs, which is why I finally gave up on
Libre Office. I think that's frustrating for many new uses of open source
software that are used to more options instead of having to go to extra work
to do the additional converting.
I find the opposite. I have InDesign 2014 and it's impossible for me
to overstate how much I loathe booting into Win7 to use it. And from
the days of Illustrator 6 and Photoshop 4 all the way through the
current versions of the Adobe suite there have always been potential
pitfalls when moving items from one program to another. In other
words, I find it *easier* to move most things through formats in the
open-source world. To be fair, some things are harder.
I'm way happier with linux as my main OS and XP running in its little
virtual "jail cell" for when I need the Adobe stuff. I have lots of
little scripts and tweaks that really make my life a thousand times
easier than when in I'm in Windows. I think my favorite is the 'chop'
command. 'chop 2 4' means: take every PDF in the folder, remove all
pages except 2 and 4. Really stupid, but beats having to fire up some
GUI once a month to trim a set of files. I could go on, but I won't ;)
Anyway, wandering a bit more toward the topic - Scribus doesn't have
all of the features of InDesign (nor will it, or should it). But it
is a solid DTP program, and makes excellent PDFs. When I need to lay
out a multi-page item, it's my first choice. Never had any trouble
importing Inkscape drawings into Scribus either.
Chris