On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:56, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
i made it. and it wasnt rude. it was honest. I had extensively used corel draw, pagemaker until i could no longer afford them. The equivalent inkscape and scribus are nowhere near them in ease of use and features. Gimp is as good or better than photoshop though. Show me four color separations in scribus please. Or from gimp for that matter. Let us not be blind in our worship. There are areas where foss has a long way to go - an equivalent to dreamweaver is another thing missing. (I have run a printing press for several years, so i know what i am talking about)
I agree with you but partially. Blind hero-worship is not going to get FOSS anywhere. BUT, I think you're mistaken. You run a printing press, thats cool but Dr.Nagarjuna's PhD student (forgot her name) gave an excellent presentation on LaTeX. It'll beat the crap out of any software.
Do correct me if I am wrong. I did keep away from this thread because I am neither an expert in Photoshop/Pagemaker/Corel Draw or their equivalents in Linux.