Page layout program

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 10:52:06 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Tom . <bwsglas at now-inaminute.co.uk> wrote:
>> So, I'm wondering if there's other favorite tools for doing simple graphic and text layout that you could recommend.
>
> Personally I would recomend Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/ but if
> can have a bit of a learning curve.
>
> The Draw compontent of Open Office might also be better than Write for
> what you want - http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html
>

Inkscape is good but be sure you are using the .47 not the old .46 and
DO read the manual first. It has a nice built in way to grab art off
the web too working with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Clip_Art_Library

Gimp might be all you need also. What exactly are you trying to do?

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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