On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:15, Ken Jennings wrote:
On Friday 2007-05-25 08:41, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2007 7:57 pm, Pueblo Native wrote:
I'm putting together a document listing alternatives for Microsoft Publisher, and so far I can only think of Scribus. Are there any others out there that show promise?
AFAIK, no. There's really nothing that matches the simplicity and power of MS Publisher unfortunately. My wife just used it the other day for a open house flyer and my mom has it running in Crossover Office on her SUSE system. You can see a ongoing list of linux/windows alternatives here:
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
It has been a little while since the last update, but they seem to be there on occasion.
(Does it have to be "free" as in zero cost?) As far as DTP features go I'd recommend PageStream. http://www.grasshopperllc.com
Other than low-end DTP work, don't use MS Publisher for anything else. My wife's boss insisted their simple web site be done in publisher. It looked OK, but I wondered why it took so long for the pages to load. I looked at the html and discovered that when Publisher exports to HTML it generates horribly bloated HTML and unnecessarily converts some text boxes to bitmaps. I rebuilt their web site using straight HTML and the new version was about 1 percent of the size of the Publisher version.
This may be heresy, but why not make a little money off of M/S? Sell them the revised code! Make them a reasonable offer based on the time you put in, and they'll probably buy it. Another thought: Copyright all the contributions you made--_ before _ you offer it. I'm not a lawyer, so you should check with one before proceeding. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org