Looking for good HTML to PDF converters for my Debian (“Elsie”) box (plain server, no KDE/GNOME), I stumbled upon the word ‘Desktop Publishing’. Actually I ended up at the Scribus site, an open source program that claims to bring award-winning desktop publishing to Linux.
Desktop Publishing sounds so early Nineties. You know, those days that a wordprocessor was actually called a ‘text processor’, because after all, it was meant to make editing text really easier. Desktop Publishing, that was something like literally ‘typesetting’ banners or ‘making 3 columns newspaper-like’ flyers. Ever tried doing that in Word? It’s probably easier now, but I doubt it will look professional.
It would be interesting to see a graph showing the correlation between the use of WP 5.x and Desktop Publishing software like Ventura and QuarkXPress, juxtaposed on a graph showing the use of Word and other graphical ‘word processors’. I bet the demise of WP 5.1 and DTP software are pretty much related.