[Novalug] PageStream vs Scribus: was some pdf editing experiences

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Tue Dec 29 11:06:45 EST 2009


OOPS! I misread Bryan's post as saying that Scribus was formerly FM 
rather than he was a former FM *user*.

Never Mind,

Emily Litella

Randolph Johnson wrote:
> Scribus is not Framemaker. Framemaker is still being developed as an Adobe product, and a lot of technical writers still swear by it as THE standard.
> 
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 10:38 AM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but if Scribus used to be FrameMaker, then it has been around for 
>> about the same time. When I was at UUNET back in 1990, our Document 
>> Maven specified FM (and got it) as a condition of her employment.
>>
>> We could tell that she wasn't gonna use NROFF macros :)
>>
>> JIM
>>
>> Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>>> This is only a very first set of impressions.
>>>
>>> When first opening Scribus the menus and first level submenus are ver 
>>> similar to PageStream. Since PagesStream has been around since 1988 
>>> or so and Scribus has been in development since 2001
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