Op 22-07-18 om 10:30 schreef Peter Nermander: > It's a matter of what you define as "desktop publishing", at least MS Word > has excellent features for doing catalogs (I have been using them for at > least 20-25 years), I assume the same can be done with any program that has > support for printing custom designed address labels. > > But a better solution might be to just use the database application and a > suitable "report generator". Then what you need to design is just the > template for the report generator. I have been doing this with MS Access > for 20-25 years too. > > (My use of MS Office is at work, where I have no control of what software > is installed, privately I prefer to tro to use FOSS as much as possible.) > I kind of agree with both sides... Scribus is a great tool for processing the layout of virtually anything. But you need to have the text prepped for the process. If this is a big and recurring project, it might be worth the effort to tweak the scripting to have it working. If it's a smaller project or only a one-off project, you would be better off with something like LibreOffice (or MS Office if that's your horsehouse). It will have easier solutions to quickly generate output - but will miss out on details like professional grade kerning or high quality PDF documents.
So basically it's up to you... Scribus is a great tool in the Linux philosophy: do one thing and do it great + work together with other great tools for added functionality. All the best, Jurgen Gaeremyn
