<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:42 AM, <<a href="mailto:koltzenburg@w4w.net">koltzenburg@w4w.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> Dear sisters, my name is Claudia, I have been on this list for some months now and I am enjoying reading what comes along. Actually, joining this list was recommended by a local ubuntu group colleague Cara, thanks, Cara :-) query: we would like to be able to use a freeware tool for layouting a scientific journal (I just checked on sourceforge but did not get very far for lack of time and technical knowledge. So I though I'd better ask here. So far, we are looking for a solution other than from the LaTeX world - so far, I say ;-) with this tool we should be able to: - layout text and images in two columns - use different kinds of fonts in the same page - tracking (give letters in a line more or less space) - variable row pitch - covert to pdf for high resolution printing we do not need multilayer layout, one layer is fine. do you know of any tool that provides this yet? may you can even recommend one? should be great, thanks :-) Claudia <a href="mailto:koltzenburg@w4w.net" target="_blank">koltzenburg@w4w.net</a> </div> -- Ubuntu-Women mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Women@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Women@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women</a> </blockquote></div> Have you tried Scribus? <a href="http://www.scribus.net/">http://www.scribus.net/</a> I think it will do what you want. It's in the repos under "scribus". Amy -- Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati. (When all else fails, play dead.) ~~Possum Lodge Motto Do you do Ubuntu? I do. Email me for more info.