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.
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