![]() Possibly other features I cannot envision that will help with a "large document" (e.g. (This sort of "works" in MS Word, except it gets somewhat unreliable when a Word document is built of nothing but text blocks and absolutely positioned images it's not really designed to work that way, and I gave up on Word for this.) ![]() Ideally, blocks of text/graphics should "flow" from one page to the next as I insert content at the beginning. Document-wide search/replace if needed (not sure if I can fake this in Illustrator for dozens of separate files, probably not). Master pages with page header - I assume this is a big advantage (although, can be "faked" somewhat in Illustrator). Ability to insert / delete / shuffle pages and have them correctly change page number, and correctly change left vs. right "master page" formatting (although, in Illustrator I simply set up two different templates) The reason I moved away from Illustrator is wanting multi-page features like: ![]() Now, I have no experience with InDesign, Quark, etc., and just started using Scribus so I don't know what features to expect. Since I'm doing a book, surely I want Desktop Publishing software, right? Unfortunately I don't have InDesign (or Quark), so looking for less expensive options, I arrived at Scribus.įirst, I am grateful to see this product exists at all, and ready to donate if it becomes a good "fit" for me. ![]() Then I realized, this seemed silly to do. ![]() The idea was to generate a PDF of each page, then use software like Adobe Acrobat to combine the separate page PDFs into one large PDF which works great. I started this project in Adobe Illustrator (because I have Adobe CS 5.1). Basically it's a large number of PNGs I've drawn, combined with text blocks (with my own custom font) and vector shapes into a complex layout on each page. I'm working on a book that is similar to a graphic novel (although I favor a relatively free-form and hand-drawn look, so specialized software like Comic Life and Clip Studio seems not suitable). ![]()
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