Pagestream vs Scribus

Hi all,

Just thought I'd post this comparison between Scribus and
Pagestream blurb. 
Just for giggles I gave Scribus (freeware on Linux) a shot.
Not in depth, but 
enough to give I feel for how it works. Scribus reminded me
of Pagesetter I. 
To enter text you had to create a textbox, then click on the
menubar to enter 
the text entry mode which opened a separate window in which
entered and 
formatted text, just like Pagesetter 1. You cannot just
click and type any 
place in the open document as you can with Pagestream.

My only beef with Pagestream 5.0.3.4 (Windows), is that
everytime I backspace 
in a text frame, the cursor goes back two places. I must be
the only one with 
this problem because I have not seem any other complaining
about it. Any 
ideas of why that may be happening?


 
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Richard E. Crislip schreef:
> Hi all,
>
>
>   

Snip...

> My only beef with Pagestream 5.0.3.4 (Windows), is that
everytime I backspace 
> in a text frame, the cursor goes back two places. I
must be the only one with 
> this problem because I have not seem any other
complaining about it. Any 
> ideas of why that may be happening?
>   

Really, Richard? Since when you are on line?

This is dated 4 September 2006:

 > Is there a way to easily correct the backspace key.
Now it deletes two
 > characters for the price of one. It's too much.

Since then all misfortune has happened to Deron and his
gang.

So be patient, as I am. I only do a delete instead of a
backspace. And 
not only in PGS   .

Theo


 
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G'day Richard E. Crislip,

On 20/01/2007, on the subject of "[PageStreamSupport]
Pagestream vs
Scribus", you spoke thus:

> My only beef with Pagestream 5.0.3.4 (Windows), is that
everytime I
> backspace in a text frame, the cursor goes back two
places. I must be
> the only one with this problem because I have not seem
any other
> complaining about it. Any ideas of why that may be
happening?

Yes, I get caught out with this each time.  I have been
using the Win
version for a month or so now (still use the Amiga version
much more and
still awaiting a stable OS X version!).  I have found a
number of minor
"quirks" in the Win version like this.

-- 
Steve Bowman - Sydney, Australia

"That statement is either so deep it would take a
lifetime to fully
comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of
absolute
tosh.  Which is it, I wonder?"

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On Saturday 20 January 2007 13:02, Richard E. Crislip
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just thought I'd post this comparison between Scribus
and Pagestream blurb.
> Just for giggles I gave Scribus (freeware on Linux) a
shot. Not in depth,
> but enough to give I feel for how it works. Scribus
reminded me of
> Pagesetter I. To enter text you had to create a
textbox, then click on the
> menubar to enter the text entry mode which opened a
separate window in
> which entered and formatted text, just like Pagesetter
1. You cannot just
> click and type any place in the open document as you
can with Pagestream.

I've got a quick question about Scribus: last time I checked
it there appeared 
to be no way to format just some of the text in a frame
(e.g., italize a 
single word). It is possible that there was a way and that I
just couldn't 
figure it out. But in any case, was this an issue in the
version of Scribus 
you used? (Just curious, really, I never understood the
limitation but never 
found the time to ask any Scribus folks about it to see if
the limitation was 
real or in my head.)

Tim Doty


 
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