Re: Adobe shifts to subscriptions for software package

[David Crosswell <davidcrosswell -at- internode -dot- on -dot- net>]

On 08/05/13 07:43, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Is Scribus really anywhere near competitive with InDesign, especially
> for color prepress?
>
> I've never found an open-source help authoring tool that was a
> practical alternative to FrameMaker plus WebWorks / RoboHelp / MIF2Go,
> Flare, etc.

Well, you're comparing /one/ open source tool there to a combination of
several closed source applications.
I think you will find equal capability with a number of open source
applications.

Of course, you will need to devote equal time to becoming competent
within each one, but with the community aspect of open source and help
files that actually function, this is no considerable hurdle.
Cheers!

David

>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:35 PM, David Crosswell
> <davidcrosswell -at- internode -dot- on -dot- net> wrote:
>> On 08/05/13 01:32, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> I had an appointment a couple of weeks ago with Adobe's international
>> sales manager as he went through Australia.
>> He was most interested to know what I was using and seemed to view open
>> source as serious competition:
>>
>> http://inkscape.org/
>> http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
>> http://www.gimp.org/
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