Real programmers use LaTeX. :-) On 12/24/08, Daniel Escasa <[email protected]> wrote: > Sabi ni Eric noong Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM: >> If that's the case, what's taken the place of Print Master on Linux? >> i.e. easy to use "desktop publishing" software. > > I'm not sure if PrintMaster qualifies as desktop publishing in the > purest sense of the word. Far as I remember, it was mainly a > graphics-and-text manipulation program, although my memory's kinda > fuzzy and I could be confusing it with another application. At any > rate, you have to be familiar with publishing to use DTP software -- > the one-time (current?) DTP software "for the masses" is PageMaker but > serious publications scoff at it. For Free Software, it'll have to be > Scribus. If you value ease-of-use over the fine control that a DTP > application will give you, OpenOffice.org Writer will do, and I've > created a nice-looking user's manual with OOo Writer. > > -- > Daniel O. Escasa > independent IT consultant and writer > contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) > personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph > Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk > If we choose being kind over being right, we will be right every time. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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