I have to admit to installing one of these this week. Bought as a Christmas gift for my wife because all her family had a similar app pre installed on there non free OS machines. We were just about to become a single boot family when this happened. My opinion on these is they reduce the decision making process for people that is why they are so popular. Technically they can't do anymore that a word processor with some rudimentary layout capability. But, by limiting the choices to templates and clip art they are less threatening to non designers. With WordPerfect now available I would expect templates for greeting cards and labels to be available soon as ExpressDocs. Then perhaps I can ditch the non free OS for good. Jayme Frye Michael Stutz wrote: > 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 ... -- Jayme Frye Sys Admin Epsen Hillmer Graphics Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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