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2 stars
Version: Scribus 1.3.3.11
"stay away, if you want to remain sane"
Pros: It must be said; It's free.
Cons: Bug-ridden, crashes a lot. Many unnecessarily-long routines. Often obtuse--in even basic ways, like paragraph indentation and line spacing. Extremely limited font-color pallet (literally, DOZENS). Not for anything beyond a newsletter.
Summary: Did I say "bug-ridden and crashes a lot?" Let me repeat that. Supposedly the stable version, I'd hate to have had experienced the unstable versions. (Maybe it's just Vista, but why only--only--with this program?)
I should have suspected, immediately, that something was wrong, the moment I saw that the Windows re-size button didn't work. Then, again, when I tried to italicize a font. (Italicizing can be done, but you'd have more fun cutting off a finger. There are no Faux features for things like bold, italics, etc.) Even such a simple thing like capturing text in a text box is dodgy (Don't believe me? Watch some of the video tutorials our there. You have to struggle to drag over every letter of text. At times like driving a crooked nail, I commonly have had to "hit" some letters five or six times to capture them.)
"Intuitive?" On Klingon, maybe. The folks at Scribus need to look up the definition of that word--and study it for about a year. The program is about as intuitive as
"vittiniuine."
Quark Express is both ridiculously expensive and difficult to master, so that too is out. Much as I hate having to go for Acrobat (it's no less obtuse in its own ways), there simply is no choice here.
A two? A bit generous, I'd give it a one-and-a-half if I could. "Does nearly everything Acrobat does." I'm still laughing. Sorry, guys, for being reduced to such narkiness, but let's face it; you did drive me nuts.
"Does nearly everything Acrobat does?"
I'm still laughing.
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