Good Publisher-like program?

Does anyone know of a good publisher program they could direct me to? Thanks in advance:) !

What kind of publshing, open office is perfect for most things for me.

like ms office publisher

You will have to tell me what publisher dose since I dont have MS

It's kind of like oo presentation, but instead of presentation you can design buisiness cards, thank you cards, stationary, stuff like that

Scribus is what your looking for: http://www.scribus.net/

Its in the repos, so

sudo apt-get install scribus 

Should do it for you :D

thanks!

neat! I found a new program!

The repos also have the scribus-ng package, which is for the development branch of Scribus.

Can Scribus read and write PageMaker files?

I dont think so.

cgbier said: Can Scribus read and write PageMaker files?

I haven't tried it yet, but have been browsing the Scribus site, wiki, and mailing list, and I think I saw a note somewhere about Scribus opening PostScript (.ps) files, which intrigued me because PageMaker can save (i.e. "print") its files to PostScript. So this might provide a migration pathway from PageMaker, which I've been using on the Mac since v.3. Sure, I could "upgrade" to InDesign, but it's far more than I need for far more than I want to pay, and Adobe's apparently even worse than Microsoft now with onerous, buggy "authentication" schemes. I'm sick of being stuck with useless files in proprietary formats when my favorite apps are abandoned by publishers whose only motivation is to milk me again and again.

Scribus is still in early stages of development, but it shows a lot of promise, and some are apparently finding it very useful already.

I'm using Scribus to publish a science fiction magazine, works great once you get used to it.

(allpossibleworlds.net if you're curious).

Cheers, Jason