I'm not becoming a software maintainer so I can make some spending cash by putting together a county fair schedule of events. No, I'm not going to fork Scribus, that makes me a maintainer. Worse, there's one feature in particular that InDesign has and Scribus lacks, vertical justification, that if you ask for it, the developers will question why you would ever need that, and remind you that you can fork the software if you don't like the job they're doing. But my list of areas where the open source projects fall short won't be added to my own personal TODO list. I actually hack together things to make my job easier, even.Īnd another counterargument I know all to well: I understand some people's zeal for contributing to open source, and at one point I shared that. I don't need someone telling me how I can hack together a Script-Fu to make it work. I've been at this for nearly 25 years and actually used the Motif version of The GIMP before I ever used Photoshop. It's great if The GIMP works fine for you, but I'm not going to go through an exhaustive list of all the areas where those pieces of software fall short of what I need.

The thing is, I'm going to put a lot more work into it, for one.Īnd I know the counterarguments. I could create illustrations in Scribus, edit photos in The GIMP, and do layouts and export print-ready PDFs in Scribus. None of them are 100% equivalent to Creative Cloud. The GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Darktable, Scribus, and so on all have their strengths. One thing I do for some extra money, is work on print projects, primarily newspapers because I worked in that business for years.

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