Scribus is tooted as the newest bestest open source product since Open Office! And why, because of its interoperability with Open Office for one and its general compliance with publishing industry standards. The open standard of the PDF, portable document format, is recognised as the PDF/x. This was brought around by the W3C world wide web consortium, the body that set itself up to promote interoperability and forward progression of the web. A PDF originally was a document format that could be produced and read on any system at any time and replicate flawlessly, words, layout and format. Since technological progression however PDF's have so much dynamics and options within them creating a pdf is now a very complex business to get right. Scribus was the first to come out with the pdf/x standard by an entire year margin. Scribus is professional enough that some publishing houses, such as Urco Editora a spanish publishing house, use it totally.
I am working on a pdf at the moment combining multiple files together, the formatting has been done and each is set up in Open Office ready to go. I decided I would give Scribus a go. Its a simple insert pdf function I am looking for only. Its not supported in Scribus, while Scribus will import pdf's only one page at a time, to be fair it will directly import Open Office material the same way. So unfortunately that sends me back to using Acrobat for now. I suppose if I was setting up a project I could start off with Scribus in mind and work towards it. But it was a truly annoying situation. For now Scribus will stay on the shelf!
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