Hi,
I saw the chat about lay out and design programs. I work with Scribus.
It's free and works fine for me. See their website where the program can
be downloaded.
Best regards,
Theo Mellenbergh
Netherlands
Op Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:12:56 +0100 schreef Kari Eveli
<lexitec@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Manuel,
I used to work with Quark 3.32 (Win 3.1, now I have it in W2K virtual
machine), but I have switched to Xara Designer Pro X 11 for short
documents like official document translations. It is in many ways
similar to Affinity, and I know that many Xara users are switching to
Affinity because of the recent change to a subscription model and some
sluggishness of Xara development. Personally, I find my a-few-years-old
Xara program a dream come true (it has it all in one program: bitmap and
vector drawing, page design and web page design wrapped in a neat
totally integrated package). Admittedly, Xara cannot do long documents
like books, so I am looking elsewhere for that. Subscription models are
not to my liking as I am used to keeping the same programs for decades.
I have just started to experiment with newer VP versions, and it seems
that the ANSI import/export filters are the way to go. The programs (VP
versions 7 and 10) are very responsive on both Win7 and VirtualBox W2K
platforms. I like my XyWrite formatting system quite a lot, and my
solution for bridging the gap to ANSI text in Ventura will probably
involve writing new conversion programs from DOS Xy3 format to VP ANSI
(with some new custom Windows character encodings to accommodate the
special characters I need).
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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Kari,
Similar route here: VP 3, VP 4.1, VP 5, VP 8, VP 10... I still have
Ventura installed in my Mac computers using Parallels. Anyhow, when I
switched to the Mac, I moved to Quark and now I am moving to Affinity
Publisher (and waiting for footnotes/endnotes support, expected in
version 2.0, like it happened with InDesign), because the current Quark
commercial practices are a complete mistake. Regarding to VP more
recent versions, it's possible to use VP 10 under Windows 7 (VP 8 in
Win XP). Working with Ventura 8/10, I have used ansified XyWrite to
create the external texts. I miss VP a lot.
Regards,
Manuel
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