Hi AZgl1500
take it easy. Reserve a day to set up Scribus and read a few tutorials. Once you have the basic scheme down, it's not difficult at all.
And besides, the Mint forum is there...
Hi AZgl1500
and mentioned experiences with various Word Processors before heading off into Latex world.So I have been working for a long time now on a book with a TON of illustrations.
I just looked at Scribus and find it difficult to use.LeviMetcalfe wrote: ⤴Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:52 am I have never used Latex and now nothing about it, why you do not want to use Scribus? I am sure you gonna love it!
you had to resize the images to fit inside the box, correct?
Okay,absque fenestris wrote: ⤴Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:33 pm No, only in the image box selected "Fit image to frame" with right click. After that the image frame is like a rubber band and you can change the frame size as you like - the image itself will be adjusted to all size changes of the frame. But only works with nice cars.
Scribus is DTP, not a word processor. DTP works on a different level, and needs a different mind set.
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in the exact format that I want, every time, never fails.But 99% isn't 100% is it. I think I would be running Word in a Windows VM – that's my plan, anyway.
Absolutely. Contrary (apparently) to many people's expectations, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to collaboratively work with different users using different WPs. It's a recipe for disaster. Different WPs have a different internal data representation so cannot reproduce some aspects of other WPs' data representation... just the same as the French don't have a word for "weekend", and the English don't have a word for "schadenfreude".
Absolutely; no argument there. There is no point learning the quirks of multiple WPs. The skill of being a Word jockey is knowing precisely what you can and cannot do, and how not to bang your head against a brick wall trying to do something the wrong way. Ditto OO/LO. If you use Word and have a team using Word, stick with Word (but consider running it in a VM instead of Wine/CrossOver). For anyone else not committed to Word, I recommend getting to understand OpenOffice (my preference) or LibreOffice – they are free, and cross-platform (MS Word costs money and is Windows-only).
Yeah, it's only a five hour flight