<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Scribus sounds fairly perfect for my company's requirements. They seem to love pdf. I thought people would point me to some sort of LaTex tool but i have no idea what LaTex is about. I couldn't find Framemaker, Quark Xpress or Indesign in the fairly standard repos (plus Medibuntu) on my Ubuntu system here but Scribus was easy to find and the Windows download for it was also easy to find. I think OpenOffice is not quite what people are looking for. The Scribus site looks nice too :) Many thanks and regards from Tom :) </div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><hr size="1">From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> To: ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thu, 2 September, 2010 12:30:43 Subject: Re: publisher drop-in replacement On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 10:58 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > Windows has "Publisher" but surely linux has an equivalent if if it can't read > ".pub" files? Does anyone know a package that works in a similar way or that > people will find more intuitive? Preferably a program that has been ported to > Windows but can produce generic output that can be used by a few different > packages in linux. Publisher is a so called desktop publishing (or simply "layout") application. This puts it into a family with Framemaker, Quark Xpress and Indesign, but users of those might scream at this claim. Publisher has a strong focus on templates and is aimed at users with no or little training in this area. I think the only useful layout application on Linux is Scribus. It has the required capabilities and is said to have excellent PDF output. Last time I used it, it had performance and stability issues, though. > Publisher has an interesting way of allowing several text-boxes with formatted > text along with other boxes containing pictures or other types of elements. This stuff in boxes approach is typical for DTP apps. Note that Open Office Writer has such capabilities, too. Though I don't even know if you can link frames for text flow. It certainly doesn't help much with precise placement of objects. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://thorwil.wordpress.com/</a> -- ubuntu-doc mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc</a> </div></div> </div> </body></html>