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Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

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Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux Markus Tacker 22 May 16:09
  Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux Carol Spears 22 May 19:44
  Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux M Narramore 22 May 20:24
   Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux Rory Grant 22 May 23:08
   Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux BandiPat 23 May 02:03
    Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux John Culleton 23 May 21:09
     Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux BandiPat 23 May 23:13
  Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux John Culleton 23 May 21:06
Markus Tacker
2003-05-22 16:09:34 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

Hoi Liste,

anyone knowing a free software for page layouts similar to Quark XPress or Indesign for Linux.

tia

Carol Spears
2003-05-22 19:44:07 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

i never used quark before. does this integrate html with images?

carol

On 2003-05-22 at 1609.34 +0200, Markus Tacker typed this:

Hoi Liste,

anyone knowing a free software for page layouts similar to Quark XPress or Indesign for Linux.

tia

M Narramore
2003-05-22 20:24:09 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

At 04:09 PM 5/22/03 +0200, Markus Tacker wrote:

anyone knowing a free software for page layouts similar to Quark XPress or Indesign for Linux.

Check out Scribus. I learned about it from Patrick on this list. I haven't tried it yet but it looks pretty interesting.

Matt

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html

http://www.gnu.org/directory/graphics/layout/scribus.html

Scribus is a Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker?, QuarkXPress? or Adobe® InDesign?, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.

Currently, it is still in its early stages of development, but rapidly maturing and very useable. Already, it has the ability to layout newsletters, create corporate stationery, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality imagesetting equipment. You can do all the typical tasks like placing and rotating text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type and much more. ...

Rory Grant
2003-05-22 23:08:52 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

Scribus would probably be your best bet. I use the mandrake 0.9.7 rpm build (comes with mdk 9.1).
Exports to .eps, .pdf (this seems to have much better optimisation than the standard ghostscript export)
dunno about importing though.
supports true type fonts (although it does have some issues, so on startup it parses all of your fonts & chooses a subset it can use) supports colour management profiles. supports CMYK colour gamut.
In fact for making stuff for print, the only thing it really lacks is spot colour support, but then again I doubt we'll ever get that in an opensource suite.

Also, a trick for young players, make sure you use either true type fonts or original type 1 fonts if you're making pdf's with embedded fonts for a print shop. I've found that Quark & other image rippers that my print shops use baulk at type 1 fonts generated from TTF.

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 06:24, M Narramore wrote:

At 04:09 PM 5/22/03 +0200, Markus Tacker wrote:

anyone knowing a free software for page layouts similar to Quark XPress or Indesign for Linux.

Check out Scribus. I learned about it from Patrick on this list. I haven't tried it yet but it looks pretty interesting.

Matt

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html

http://www.gnu.org/directory/graphics/layout/scribus.html

Scribus is a Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe® InDesign, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.

Currently, it is still in its early stages of development, but rapidly maturing and very useable. Already, it has the ability to layout newsletters, create corporate stationery, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality imagesetting equipment. You can do all the typical tasks like placing and rotating text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type and much more. ...

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BandiPat
2003-05-23 02:03:33 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

On Thursday 22 May 2003 14:24, M Narramore wrote:

At 04:09 PM 5/22/03 +0200, Markus Tacker wrote:

anyone knowing a free software for page layouts similar to Quark XPress or Indesign for Linux.

Check out Scribus. I learned about it from Patrick on this list. I haven't tried it yet but it looks pretty interesting.

Matt

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html

http://www.gnu.org/directory/graphics/layout/scribus.html

Scribus is a Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker?, QuarkXPress? or Adobe® InDesign?, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.
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Matt and Rory are correct, Scribus is very usable and stable. Go to this site for the latest, but you will need to compile it from source. Many of the latest Linux distros included a version. I think the SuSE 8.2 one was 0.9.7 as well, but we are up to the 0.9.11 right now in the CVS. The program is working very well and it's PDF output is only bettered by Adobe itself! Here is your starting location for news & downloads: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/

There is also another program coming along although not quite ready to use. It is PageStream 4 and they were offering it for a reduced price if you purchased early. It now has versions for Linux, Amiga, Mac & Windows and is by far one of the best desktop publishing programs on the market. Here is your starting location for it. http://www.grasshopperllc.com/

The advantage of Scribus is it's Open Source and ready to use and probably unequalled in PDF output, which your printers need.

Patrick

John Culleton
2003-05-23 21:06:56 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

On Thursday 22 May 2003 10:09 am, Markus Tacker wrote:

Hoi Liste,

anyone knowing a free software for page layouts similar to Quark XPress or Indesign for Linux.

tia

Depends on your mission. You can do some pretty wild things wiht various bits and pieces of TeX, including Metapost, Context, those two in combination etc. Just for your information InDesign uses some of the TeX internals for pargraphing and line breaking even though the interface is quite different. TeX is not drag and drop or WYSIWYG, but it gets the job done efficiently.

John Culleton
2003-05-23 21:09:47 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

On Thursday 22 May 2003 08:03 pm, BandiPat wrote:

Matt and Rory are correct, Scribus is very usable and stable. Go to this site for the latest, but you will need to compile it from source.

The advantage of Scribus is it's Open Source and ready to use and probably unequalled in PDF output, which your printers need.

Patrick

How would you compare its output to e.g., pdftex in the TeX family?

BandiPat
2003-05-23 23:13:18 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

Quark, InDesign Substitute for Linux

On Friday 23 May 2003 15:09, John Culleton wrote:

On Thursday 22 May 2003 08:03 pm, BandiPat wrote:

Matt and Rory are correct, Scribus is very usable and stable. Go to this site for the latest, but you will need to compile it from source.

The advantage of Scribus is it's Open Source and ready to use and probably unequalled in PDF output, which your printers need.

Patrick

How would you compare its output to e.g., pdftex in the TeX family?

==============

Don't think I could John, as I am not familar with the pdf output of TeX, but I do know Scribus is rated to have the best, most compatible pdf output around right now, besides maybe Adobe themselves.

Patrick