Hello, Well, Scribus 0.6 is available in Debian woody, but it won't print via CUPS, and when I exported my work as a PDF file I could preview it, but not print it (all I got was a blank page).
So, Sodipodi and Inkscape are not available as a deb package. At least, one is, but relies on too many later libraries not found in stable, and backports.org doesn't have it. I booted up Knoppix 3.2, which had sodipodi installed. Nice! I made this, a 300dpi PNG, since I could not print to PostScript (it crashed): http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/blighty/chchrobotics/chbot_flyer.png I tried a later version of Scribus, but it crashed. I also found Karbon14, which would do what I want, but wouldn't open the XML created by sodipodi. I expect OpenOffice Draw would work, but takes too long to load off the Knoppix CD. I only wanted to do a quick job (as I'm sure you can tell), but it took longer than I expected... I am in no doubt that there is some quality software out there, but it is still 'under development', and a bit flakey. In addition, I'm not going to get any of this from Debian stable, so I need to run a later distro on my laptop, and leave Debian for the server (file/print/mail). Gentoo appeals, since it has all the latest stuff and seems to be set up so all the apps play nice with each other. Hmm... Andy -- Now playing: The Sisters Of Mercy - Watch
