On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:21 am, fsanta wrote:

Our school went Linux only recently but I had overlooked the British gcse course requirement which specifies familiarity with a desktop publishing package. Any other teachers out there who could help me with this one? The course is Edexcel gcse and we are running 18 off 8.1 boxes on our lan. Thanks, Steve.

Have a look at Scribus. It's developing into a nice DTP package along the lines of Quark/Pagemaker. It's being actively developed and looks like it's maturing well. http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ A manual is at: http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/index.html StarOffice/Openoffice.org has some nice DTP features - you can flow text between frames for example. I used to do a lot of DTP using Serif Pageplus (nice App!) under Win, so have an interest in the area. HTH, Jason