Re: [SLUG] MEPIS is finally working?

From: Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 01:48:54 EST


Pete Theisen wrote:
> Sick Twist wrote:
>
>>> From: Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net>
>>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>>> To: slug@nks.net
>>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] MEPIS is finally working?
>>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:12:18 -0500
>>>
>>> On Monday 31 January 2005 01:05 am, Pete Theisen wrote:
>>> > Hmm, managed
>>> > to crash SCRIBUS in 5 minutes. Bad Pete.
>>>
>>> Scribus does crash a lot. No biggee, just save your work a lot.
>>> --
>>> Eric Jahn
>>
>>
>>
>> Pete,
>> There is another desktop publishing program called Passepartout. It
>> may be worth trying if Scribus does not meet your needs:
>>
>> http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
>>
>
> Hi Jonathan!
>
> Looking at passepartout now. It looks as though you have to have an
> editor of some kind open to type the text into, can't just put a text
> box on the page and type directly into it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete

Passepartout can only import text. The developers feel that it should
be used only as a layout editor and not as a word processor.

I have not used Passepartout extensively so I am unsure how its
functionality compares with that of Scribus. So many programs to
explore and so little time... ;)

-Jonathon

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