On Thursday 10 February 2011 15:55:55 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 13:43 +0530, steve wrote:
I know what they say - but can they do professional quality colour separations?
Although I do not know anything about DTP. I have heard good things about scribus. I found it just a little bit perturbing that you replied back with a one word `no` answer without mentioning scribus after making the assumption that the OP was indeed looking for `professional quality colour separations` -- what if the OP's primary objective is just page layout (which I believe scribus handles rather well) and is quite happy with the quality of `colour separation` it offers ?
sorry for being abrupt - but this has come up several times on this list and other lists and I am fed up with the discussion. I ran a printing press for several years and used to know what I was talking about - it is 6 years since I closed it, so maybe things have changed since then. Two points I have to make:
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Impose.html
Looks like it can do quite complex impositions. The licence is unclear. One will have to download and check the relevant files.