In Scribus

[bcholmes]

Some days, I realize how little I know about computers. I mean, I'm a good programmer. I think very highly of my programming skills. But when it comes to things like knowing about good free software or just about anything involving hardware, I'm pretty ignorant.

This latest round of "my god, there's a lot of stuff I don't know" is brought on by discovering Scribus, an open source page layout tool. I downloaded it on the weekend, and I've been toying with it. I love the potential, but so far, it's been very slooooooooow. And they tell me why that is: it's a PowerPC build, running on my Intel Mac under Rosetta. So I wonder: why isn't there a Universal build?

So I'm already fishing around trying to understand what it takes to build this from source. I'm sure there are people who are intimately familiar with building stuff like this all the time. But not me. I feel like I have a lot of gaps in my computer knowledge for someone who codes as much as I do.