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DUDE_2000
May 14th, 2007, 09:25 PM
Does anyone know of a good publisher program they could direct me to?
Thanks in advance:) !
earobinson
May 14th, 2007, 09:29 PM
What kind of publshing, open office is perfect for most things for me.
DUDE_2000
May 14th, 2007, 09:33 PM
like ms office publisher
earobinson
May 14th, 2007, 09:36 PM
You will have to tell me what publisher dose since I dont have MS
DUDE_2000
May 14th, 2007, 09:51 PM
It's kind of like oo presentation, but instead of presentation you can design buisiness cards, thank you cards, stationary, stuff like that
Jussi01
May 15th, 2007, 02:22 AM
Scribus is what your looking for: http://www.scribus.net/

Its in the repos, so

sudo apt-get install scribus


Should do it for you :D
DUDE_2000
May 15th, 2007, 11:14 AM
thanks!
earobinson
May 15th, 2007, 11:29 AM
neat! I found a new program!
jariku
May 22nd, 2007, 03:27 AM
The repos also have the scribus-ng package, which is for the development branch of Scribus.
cgbier
May 22nd, 2007, 10:44 PM
Can Scribus read and write PageMaker files?
Jussi01
May 23rd, 2007, 06:18 AM
I dont think so.
handylinux
May 30th, 2007, 12:40 PM
Can Scribus read and write PageMaker files?

I haven't tried it yet, but have been browsing the Scribus site (http://www.scribus.net/index.php), wiki (http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Main_Page), and mailing list (http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus), and I think I saw a note somewhere about Scribus opening PostScript (.ps) files, which intrigued me because PageMaker can save (i.e. "print") its files to PostScript. So this might provide a migration pathway from PageMaker, which I've been using on the Mac since v.3. Sure, I could "upgrade" to InDesign, but it's far more than I need for far more than I want to pay, and Adobe's apparently even worse than Microsoft now with onerous, buggy "authentication" schemes. I'm sick of being stuck with useless files in proprietary formats when my favorite apps are abandoned by publishers whose only motivation is to milk me again and again.

Scribus is still in early stages of development, but it shows a lot of promise, and some are apparently finding it very useful already.
Xangis
May 31st, 2007, 12:20 PM
I'm using Scribus to publish a science fiction magazine, works great once you get used to it.

(allpossibleworlds.net if you're curious).

Cheers,
Jason