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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
