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Scribus. Not Quite What I'd Hoped Yet

I mentioned Scribus in an earlier post today. I went to download it to give it a spin but I can't quite figure out how to get it to run on OS X without wrapping it in X11, which I refuse to do. If I wanted to run it in X11 I'd run Linux.

There's supposed to be an Aqua port but the links are dead so I don't know what's going on. If you do, let me know!

Meanwhile, the adventure of trying to convert HTML table cell text to justified text in a document I can get to print in a 6x9 book format to a PDF is turning out to be far more work than I ever anticipated. I'm just about at the point of deciding to bite the bullet and manually reformat the text but it's over 400 pages.

Every single approach I've tried -- and I've tried a bunch of them including about 10 or 12 new ones today -- breaks down somewhere. Some come close, but no horseshoe. This really shouldn't be so hard, I keep telling myself.

Right.