Book layout

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi again
I just tried out scribus and it seems to be what I'm looking for. I 
never would have imagined it would be so easy to get this kind of software.

My only problem is (and this is really pathetic) that the program just 
feels wrong. Scribus isn't using GTK (I'm guessing QT) and that just 
hurts :-)
Can I configure QT (if that's what scribus is using) to act more like GTK?

/Søren

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi
> First of all, thanks to all the people who suggested scribus (on and off 
> the list) - I'm looking into that right now.
> 
> Wander Boessenkool wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> Time to teach your father how to use the Gimp for the retouching
> 
> Oh, but he's already doing that. I think I should say that he tried 
> photoshop
> a while back, but gave up. With gimp I just had to show him how to start 
> the program
> and he just simply started to learn. I didn't even have to teach him 
> (off course he's only doing simple stuff).
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> First off: Scribus would indeed be a good choice, but if your father
>> (who I guess is somewhat technical) doesn't mind learning some new
>> tricks you might also look in to LaTeX. There are some graphical
>> frontends to it, although none spring to mind right now (I edit using
>> vi).
> 
> I'm a LaTeX man myself (I love saying that to people who don't known 
> TeX) but I allways felt that dealing with graphics was a bit of a pain. 
> It's great for text (it's the best), but maybe I don't know the right 
> packages?
> 
> Anyway, my father is not that technical and likes to keep things visual 
> (remember he's an architect) so unless better gui's exist than LyX I 
> think LaTeX is a bit to hard (allthough he was/is a big fan of 
> WordPerfect 5.1, and that's very much the same as LaTeX).
> 
> Thanks,
> /Søren
> 
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