OO equiv to MS Publisher?

Wed Apr 22 12:12:32 UTC 2009

Here is a cut & paste of an email I sent to this list a week ago. It 
never went through. I stripped off the attachment and am resending it. 
Is it because the attachment was too big (almost a MB)? I just want to 
know for future reference.

Chris

I'd like to change this thread name to 'GiMP vs Photoshop'. I don't know 
the exact format for the subject line: such and such WAS > so and so or 
whatever.

Anyway, the teacher that's helping me with the poster has a licence that 
allows him to give copies of Photoshop to other teachers (of which I am 
one). He made a rough poster for me to look at. I opened it in linux and 
it opened automatically in GiMP. Of course, that made me wonder if I 
should edit it with GiMP instead of Photoshop. I mean I don't know 
either apps so what's the difference? The other reason I'd rather do 
this in Linux is that my only Windows box is dedicated to recording 
Music and I've been strongly advised to keep it that way. So, just in 
the past two days installing Photoshop and trying to edit/create a 
poster I've had that machine on the Internet more than in the entire 
year before. I had to go to webmail to get the poster he sent me (as 
.psd), then grab an image off google, now I need the Bazooka font (from 
the Internet) which comes as a .zip which means I'll have to download 
Winzip. This is a recording studio production recording computer - I 
can't be doing the Microsoft-on-the-Internet-every-two-seconds thing on 
this box.

The machine I use for Internet and everything else is a Linux box. Is 
GiMP so much harder than Photoshop that I'm going to regret trying to 
use it instead?

Chris

P.S. here's the .psd that I can't edit- do I need Bazooka? Is that the 
only thing stopping me from editing it?

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I found open office Write quite useable for doing our data sheets and a
> trifold leaflet for the Royal Astronomical Society. After some work to 
> get
> done what I needed, I then found 'Essential Open Office' on a local
> newsstand. It's available from the web at (very long url!):
>
> http://shop1.actinicexpress.co.uk/shops/essential_web_site_maker/index.php?page=store&cat=taylormade01&ProductsPerPage=20&ProductBySectionListPageIndex=2&ActinicSID=53cd91c26f0842483e265078eca40c7f 
>
>
> You need 'issue 2' which is shown on the second of two pages.
>
> I've attached a copy of a brochure done using OO Writer. It incorporates
> screen shots taken from a Windows machine and a photograph that we did.
> I've since done documents that used an image from a web site. (I got
> permission to use it.)
>
> I have no experience with scribus, so that might be another option.
>
> Regards  -
> Peter
>
>  
>> 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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