On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:58 +1100 Heracles <herac...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for > a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who > gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have > to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 > pages for which the format is fairly fixed. > > Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index > (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is > basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing > monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set > up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. > <SNIP> Scribus has been mentioned already and it is very good and easy to work with. However, from the sound of your publication, I think I would use LyX. You have very few graphics and the rest of it sounds like it would fit easily into the LyX format. I self-published a cookbook that my wife wrote and it had quite a bit of graphics - went like a charm with LyX. You can see some of the pages at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-restless-minestrone/728996# I used Scribus to do the front and back cover. If your newsletter is no more complicated than this, then go with LyX. HTH, Alan > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW > oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri > =mOlx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
