Re: [opensuse] Publisher alternatives

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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