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Author: Michael
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Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing
thanks for the advise. My internet search pointed to Scribus as well. I was
just wondering about others opinions.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Joseph Sinclair <>
wrote:

> A lot depends on what you want to do.
> Scribus is a pretty decent full-line DTP environment for Linux, but it
> hasn't always been the most stable... Recent releases seem pretty good,
> however.
> There's a new-kid on the block called Laidout (laidout.org), it's not
> totally new, but newly useable. It's pretty rough in many spots (e.g. text
> flow is missing and text handling in general is pretty limited), but if
> you're looking for something more like a comic-book layout tool or
> greeting-card maker, it looks pretty good.
> There's also an older project for more newspaper-style layout,
> passepartout (http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/), but it hasn't
> been updated since August 2007, so it has bugs and issues that (quite
> probably) won't get fixed.
>
> I don't know of any other (aside from the commercial titans like the
> InDesign suite) significant products in that space.
>
> On 06/06/2016 03:27 PM, Michael wrote:
> > Could someone tell me what to d/l for Desktop Publishing?
> >
> >
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