[plug] graphics packages

[Colin Muller]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:15:35PM +0800, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> Question is, Is there anything under Linux that is as good as Quark
> and is a suitable substitute?

Have them try Scribus, currently in fairly rapid development. I
haven't yet tried it myself, it's just on my to-be-tried list:
http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html

> The same applies to Photoshop.

Someone mentioned the other day that the Gimp (www.gimp.org) does not
do well at really high-res print-reproduction work. If that's not a
requirement, it's really pretty powerful, and may be an adequate
replacement for Photoshop.

Colin