> Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian and > what they recommend using. > > My wife has a home based business and I would like to create some > flyers, tri-fold pamplets and such for here. So ideally it has to be > easy for her to use, but if not I'll do all the work! Have you had any luck here? I am interested in desktop publishing applications too. I have done some searching myself and here is what I have found so far: xfig: This is a great package for vector graphics. Its graphical user interface is a little old fashioned, but it does the job and is a stable, good quality package. I have been using it for years for some things and been quite satisfied. However it is not a fully fledged desktop publishing package like Adobe Pagemaker say. It is slowly moving in that direction however. You can now incorporate bitmap files into a document. And they now also have image librarys that you can use for loading common images into your document without having to draw them yourself. The main negative in my view with xfig is that I don't think it deals with text all that well. tgif: Similar in some ways to xfig. The interface doesn't seem quite so nice. I have only had a brief play with it so I don't know how powerful it is. sketch: Have a look at: http://www.online.de/home/sketch It looks fairly promising. Though I haven't tried it myself. The user interface looks great and the potential power of the package looks promising. Axene Xclamation: This is a commercial desktop publishing package for (among others) linux. It looks quite good and only costs US$25 for a licence. This could be your best option????? http://www.axene.com/english/xclamation.html StarOffice: This is another comercial package (though free for non-comercial use). It is a suite of programs. It seems fairly good and well integrated. This is sort of the "Windows suite of software when you're not running windows". One of the programs in the suite is StarDraw -- not quite a complete desktop publishing program, but not too far off -- it might be enough for what your wife wants. This also could be your best option????