Rating and comments for Scribus

Scribus is good, but not enough. Kerning and tracking are difficult, the distance between words is to big (and it cannot be changed). And the speed. Why didn't write it in java?

Scribus is very good and it´s free aplication.

Don't let people fool you, this will never be a replacement for Quark or InDesign.

If you are looking for something to replace MS Publisher this is it, its not even worth a look for replacing InDesign or Quark.

It needs support for Publisher files

Scribus is coming on fine. We use it commercially as our DTP solution ...

I am not impressed with Scribus. It is rather unstable. I can understand wanting to go open source (I do whenever possible) but it is simply not economically feasible to use Scribus as a main tool.

I used scribus to create a prospectus for my boss. Worked really well. If you are new to DTP Scribus gives you all you want ;) And i didn't have any crashes during 1 week of working with it. Really nice OS App

Scribus does not have a "real" table object. When you create a table, Scribus creates a group of text box. Difficult to resize, difficult to edit, ....

Scibus crashes constantly for me whenever working with fonts. No font previews. Can't apply a new font without closing the dialog. Difficult to change paragraph options. Outdated UI. I love linux but this one needs lots of refinement, IMHO. I would love to see something a little more polished and stable for linux in the desktop publishing realm. I will keep using it to track the bugs and submit them, if not already done so.

Comes to a crawl with just ten pages of text only, performance extremely poor

Loading projects take too long. Very poor performance, even on a fast computer. This is like Windows 95 all over again.