OO equiv to MS Publisher?

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Is there something analogous to MS Publisher in OO?

In case I've posed the wrong question, let me tell you what it is that I 
want to do:

I want to create posters (flyers, coupons, posters with or without 
tear-off phone numbers) for my piano tuning business.

What I /do/ have going for me is a very nice logo that my brother made 
(which he sends me as .jpg, .tif or anything else I might need). That he 
is my brother is germane here in that he won't charge me a penny, so I 
don't like to ask too much. I hope there is no one here that thinks that 
not charging me is precisely why I /should/ use him extensively. ;)

I am seeing that even 12 yr olds are doing in school what I cannot do at 
home: combining pictures, words and photographs in any arrangement on a 
page (including text on top of pictures). My sad attempts in OO Writer 
to make posters have presented me with challenges such as the following:

- I can type under or over my logo.jpg but not beside it. [The 12 yr 
olds tell me they can easily type anything over, under, beside, or on 
any image.]
- I get images from the Internet but they have 'copyright' (or somesuch) 
stamped across them. [The 12 yr olds tell me they just get images from 
google and easily (legally?) strip the unwanted text from them.]

Here's an example of what I would like to do:

Make a poster with my logo, add '$10 off for new clients' (this text 
anywhere on any angle I like), and add an image of a section of a piano 
keyboard (I don't have such an image).

If you suggest I use GIMP I will probably just bite the bullet and hire 
an artist. I know my limitations - I've seen the set up dialogue for 
GIMP and I am not going there.

I do have a Windows machine but I use it solely for music recording (as 
linux gave me too much grief in that area) - I've been advised to keep 
it that way. So, I gotta do this on linux.

Any help would be appreciated.

Chris



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