[KLUG Members] Web devel

Mike Williams knightperson at zuzax.com
Wed May 11 16:40:52 EDT 2005


>
> From:
> Mark Bystry <mabystry at verizon.net>
>
>
> you know, i've always made a big effort to use an app that i can use 
> in both windows and linux. for instance, firefox, mozilla, 
> thunderbird, gimp, nvu, ect. recently, i started using scribus. i 
> really like it. however, scribus won't be ported to windows for a long 
> time. just mac and linux for now. at work we started using adobe's 
> indesign for catalog stuff. i really like it so far. it's a little 
> more powerful than scribus. but it doesn't run in linux. my point is, 
> i feel for the original poster of this thread. it is not always easy 
> to find great alternatives and/or cross platform apps. and sometimes 
> when you do find one you have to get used to a loss of features 
> because you chose something that wasn't as good as something else on 
> the market.
>
> Mark Bystry
> SuSE 9.3 Pro
> KDE 3.4.0

Have you tried running Scribus under cygwin?  Not an ideal solution, but 
it might work.



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