[ale] DTP for Linux

[Dow Hurst]

CMYK is a big deal for DTP on Linux since even GIMP won't do it.  Most 
publishing houses I've had contact with use a four color print process 
and want CMYK based TIFF format images.  So, this is good news to me.
Dow


Mark Angeli wrote:

>Scribus is covered in this month's Linux Journal.... rather nice looking
>software (It does CMYK and RGB)
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>On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:11, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
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>>Last week there was a question about DTP for Linux (Sorry, I deleted the 
>>original request).  Many people suggested Scribus, which does sound good, but 
>>I wanted to add the suggestion of Kword, the Koffice word processor.
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>>I worked my way through the Kword tutorial this weekend.  It makes the point 
>>repeatedly that Kword is much more than a word processor, it is acually a 
>>full layout program suitable for publishing.  By this I mean you can, say, 
>>start two columns on the first page and have one continue on the second page 
>>and the other continue on the third.
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>>Not being a DTP user I can't speak to the completeness of Kword, but it should 
>>be considered as an option.  And since Koffice 1.3 is almost out, it should 
>>be new and improved very soon.
>>
>>Michael
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