The morning after

OK, the hate/love relationship with scribus has changed. After a brief review of their release notes, it seems that putting Windows XP into Classic mode guards you from the crazy access violations.

Now with Scribus you can create great stuff like this in record time and for one low price.



I'd sure like to be able to paste images directly into scribus but it seems to require saving to disk first.

Did I mention you can save directly to PDF for sharing with all your friends?

Very nice.

A new blog

Don't you just hate desktop publishing software that crashes?

For that matter, don't you hate all software that crashes?

I just downloaded the freeware desktop publishing software called Sribus and used it for about 20 minutes. Then it crashed. A nice "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" showed up and that's all she wrote. For that matter, that was all I wrote too, the program exited with no auto-save and no temp file and no dice.

It remindes me how much I really love commercial software. OK, not all of it works all the time but most of it works often enough to make it worth the $50 (or whatever it takes) to buy it. No, I don't want to spend $500 for Office professional but I'd happily spend $75 to avoid crashes and get all the perks.

The sad news is I can't just spend $50 or $75. It looks like $150 is the price point.

OK a quick search of Amazon says I can buy "Print Shop" for just $10 but that just scares me. Perhaps it's worth the $10 if I don't get crashes.

Something to ponder...