Reinhard Katzmann wrote: >Hi George! > >On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:22:12PM -0800, George Mitchell wrote: > >>Charles A Edwards wrote: >> >>>In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times >>>stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia >>>driver mod to load. >>> >>> > >>Well I just had a need to generate business cards. My choices for that >>(other than WP8) were glabels (an excellent little tool by the way) and >>Open Office. I chose Open Office because it has better font and >> > >>facing pages on a landscaped letter size sheet like WP8?). I would also >>like to see them support postal bar codes. I currently own a copy of >>WP2K, but have no intention of installing it due to the quirkiness of >>Corel's crappy installer. >> > >Well if you're into desktop publishing capabilities (which neither WP8, >WP2000, OO/SO or whatever word processor is made for!) you should use >a DTP program. There is a free one called scribus (in contrib) and it >works nice with all the fonts I tried. It is still being developed >and you could even be part of the development. Probably not comparable >to products like Pagestream, Quark or similar (and last time I looked >there was only one (commercial) alternative available for Linux), but >it's free :-). > >If you just want to have some graphic editing capabilities there are >enough powerful programs with support both bitmapped as well as vector >based graphics (like the gimp and dia). > >Regards, > >Reinhard > Actually I have tried scribus and am kind of observing it mature. I really like the direction it is headed, but there are a number of niceties that it lacks. It seemingly requires you to first create the text with a text editor or something like that. I found it a bit convoluted. I am hoping to eventually see products along the lines of Adobe Pagemaker or Acrobat. I have also used Gimp and Dia. Gimp absolutely lacks nothing! Its there already. As for Dia, its promising, and getting there quickly. KWord also appears to have eventual possibilities for publishing, its just not there yet. Anyway, thanks for the info.
- George
