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Hmm. You know, it's been a few years since I last tried it, but when I did it was anything but user friendly, and I wasn't trying for anything complex. Has it

Hmm. You know, it's been a few years since I last tried it, but when I did it was anything but user friendly, and I wasn't trying for anything complex. Has it improved recently or is it much of a muchness with its 2018(ish) incarnation?

bovermyer 5y ago
It has improved, but it's still nowhere near as good as InDesign or Affinity Publisher.
- toastal 5y ago
  Neither of which work on Linux or BSD
  - brudgers 5y ago
    There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
  - briffid 5y ago
    it does using virtualbox and Windows
  - pseingatl 5y ago
    Affinity Publisher can't handle footnotes. An enormous omission.
  - bovermyer 5y ago
    In which case, your choice is either Scribus, or hand-writing LaTeX.
rodgerd 5y ago
> but when I did it was anything but user friendly I have always found it very easy to use, but I spend years at a job where I wrangled Quark and PageMaker as part of my job; it felt very familiar and comfortable.
- freeopinion 5y ago
  With years of experience in Quark, PageMaker, and FrameMaker, Scribus was familiar, but not comfortable. I haven't looked at it in a few years, so I hope it is much better now. But the unusability for me was not because of unfamiliarity. I just wasn't satisfied with its capabilities. I always hoped it would keep getting better so it could have the abilities of those others. Perhaps it has.