On Thursday 25 October 2007 10:54:36 Stephen Dickinson Finance Assistant wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list and have been enjoying reading it for the past week or so
Welcome to the list.
I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good open source equivalent of MS Publisher? I'm trying to persuade an office to move their two windows based PCs to Linux and have covered all the software so far except Publisher. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
There are a couple of DTP projects around and also some graphics projects which have DTP-like capabilities.
Scribus http://www.scribus.net/ OO.org draw http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html Xara Xtreme http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
One thing I think you'll find you can't do is easily concert MS Publisher files. AFAIK, none of these programs will import or open them. It may be possible to work around this by creating PDFs or PostScript files from Publisher (maybe with PDFCreator http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator) and then importing them into your chosen Linux alternative.
Cheers, Richard