Who Copied Who?

Honestly, I don’t really care! I’ll be trying this out as soon as I get a chance. What can I say? I’ve got a “thing” for cool dock aps

Popular Linux desktop application Avant Window Navigator received a large amount of flak for using the same depth effect as Apple’s upcoming release of OS X. But things aren’t always what they seem, and the example proves two important truths about the technology industry.

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Source: Venture Cake

~LC

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To read most of the digital press, you’d think InDesign was the only big-league desktop publishing (DTP) application anyone took seriously. A few might add QuarkXpress to that, though Quark seems to have alienated virtually all journos over the years. This stems from a long-running reluctance to provide review copies and a long-running desire to produce an under-featured, over-priced heavyweight that still has trouble with tables. There is a third contender, though, from a rather unusual source.

Scribus is an open-source DTP application, started in 2001 and written by people who are clearly opinionated on subjects like typography and page design. The program is a free download and is cross-platform, with versions available for Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Linux. It has just moved to version 1.3.4 but since this developers’ release is only currently available as source code, our review is based on version 1.3.3.9. On Windows you’re advised to install GhostScript, the open source PostScript and PDF rendering engine, first. Both installations are painless and Scribus runs up to a rather atypical blank page display.

Source: Trusted Reviews

~LC

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