Hello,
I am Silvia Griselda from Alaska. I've been searching for an affordable DP to use with my MBP. My works as a translator often calls for conversion of the dreaded PDF files ::) into lovely looking brochures, diplomas, birth certificates, you name it...usually off a bad photocopied PDF....
Thus is the life of a humble translator.
I think that Scribus is actually quite advanced...for me, anyway. I have very painstakingly used a combo of Word (Office2011 for Mac), plus ABBY Fine readers (Mac version), plus the OmegaT CAT tool...which kind sorta does the job but needs a ton of tweaking. A DP expert I am not
Feeling rather overwhelmed at the learning curve here with Scribus. Wondering if this is really what I need to make my job of transferring graphics (which need to stay the same) and then add the translated text into the saved graphics page. Am I making sense?
Like I said I use a number of programs which sorta work if the end client is not super picky about them being exactly like the originals, but have been wanting to learn something a bit more sophisticated without becoming a DP expert....
A translator should just be that...a translator and leave all the graphicy stuff to those who are experts in that field, however, in this fast paced business world a translator has had to become DP expert, editor, writer and translator.
Question: Is Scribus going to make my life easier or am I going to go over the edge here? Figuratively speaking... :-\
Thanks
Silvia Gri (Alaska)
hi silvia
Quote from: GRI BUONGIORNE on November 29, 2014, 07:34:36 AMIs Scribus going to make my life easier or am I going to go over the edge here? Figuratively speaking...
usually scribus is going to make things more complicated first – but that's the same (or even worse) with other dtp software...
if you're doing the whole layout work besides your translations, scribus may be a good help.
for the translations i would still use a text editor. for the use alongside scribus,
'libreOffice' or
'openOffice' are the better choice than
'word' – because you may import formatted text (including paragraph styles).
utnik
Quote from: utnik on November 29, 2014, 04:09:23 PM
hi silvia
usually scribus is going to make things more complicated first – but that's the same (or even worse) with other dtp software...
if you're doing the whole layout work besides your translations, scribus may be a good help.
for the translations i would still use a text editor. for the use alongside scribus, 'libreOffice' or 'openOffice' are the better choice than 'word' – because you may import formatted text (including paragraph styles).
Thanks utnik, not sure if I have libre office or open office capability, I use Pages/Word and so far using Scribus has me doing alot of tweaking as well since it's not compatible with my text program...or maybe I'm not getting what you mean... :-[
utnik
hi silvia
Quote from: GRI BUONGIORNE on November 30, 2014, 12:51:14 AM...Scribus has me doing alot of tweaking as well since it's not compatible with my text program...
scribus is compatible with each text program. with oo and lo it offers a nice suplementary feature...
btw. you should write your text outside of the quotes from another post.
utnik
If I understand you correct, your main goal is to import a scanned document as a "backgrouond" and then place the translated text on top of it?
Scribus can do that, but depending on your need Scribus may be a bit overkill. I think the same thing could be done in for example Inkscape, maybe even in Open/Libre Office (I haven't tried placing a scanned image as background in Libre Office so I'm not sure how easy it is).