Scribus 1.1.6 Reviewed

TrialOfFire points out MadPenguin's review (with helpful screenshots) of Scribus 1.1.6, which attempts to answer "what is Scribus really like? Can anyone just pick it up and use it? Is it really as powerful as they say it is? And does it live up to the hype surrounding it?"

Killer app it isn't

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

who recently proclaimed Scribus to be one of "Free Software's Killer Applications"

Oh yes yes sure... but when will they learn? the *only* free software killer application is here [gnu.org]. And I should know, it very nearly killed me.

Oh and by the way, I'm sure it can do desktop publishing too some way or another...

Re:usability

[Hewligan]

Spoken like a man who's never had to use Quark Xpress.

(old joke) It would be a nice OS...

[Anonymous Coward]

...if it included a good text editor.

Re:Ah but:

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a new tradition.

Foo 1.0 has been released. It's been proclaimed the new killer app. killer Funion states that stability has increased exponentially and that it passes the grandma test. Ken at Bargain Hardware states that it installed very easily, and it was a perfect replace for his old program, "bar". He can now accomplish twice the production and efficiency has increased 200%. Mamba Joe, the developer of Foo, expects 2.0 to be released tomorrow. Here's to Mountain Dew!

JPEG

[jabbadabbadoo]

They added JPEG support in this version. Time to close down the project.

Re:Summarize what it does in one word

[NonSequor]

In all of the languages that I can understand, words have vowels in them.

Re:A better question

[sweet cunny muffin]

Perhaps they meant ((GNU)/(Linux®)), as Linux is a registered trade mark (a ®) of Linus.

PostNuke powered Website

[Cloud K]

How appropriate! Seeing the website is broken via slasdotting - a post nuke website, so to speak.

Re:A better question

[NonSequor]

But I want to know what Scribus is really like when no one's around and he can stop pretending and just be himself. I want to get to know the real Scribus, not the mere shell you read about in the tabloids.

Re:A better question

[MikeCT]

Which has higher precedence, ® or / ?

Re:New Record

[Anonymous Coward]

My favourite part is:

"Problem with Database Connection"

Powered by ADOdb