This is the month for greeting cards, and I was wondering if anyone has ever
used their systems to make them? I stopped reading slashdot around
Thanksgiving, but I saw that this was a recent Ask Slashdot topic, and it
recieved a pitiful three responses, none of them any helpful: <>

So -- anyone have experience making greeting cards and the like on
Linux-based systems?

I have some ideas which I'll share if this topic generates interest. The
epitome of bad application design I think are specialized applications like 
those "Greeting Card Creator" apps that exist on a certain non-free OS ...
the important thing is the ability to: 1. typeset some text in a typeface
and font of your choice; 2. scan and/or draw an image or images; 3. combine
them on a double-sided page; 3. print it to the right size ...

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