On Sunday 10 June 2007 14:06, Frank Emens wrote: > This may be the wrong place to ask this, but it is probably where > I'll get the best answer. I have been using Ventura Publisher in > Windows XP for years to create a monthly newsletter. Every so often > I think about switching to linux (Ubuntu is the distro I have) but > run into the problem of the newsletter. Is there a tool within the > Linux world that will do what Ventura does? If so what is it? > Scribus seems close, but leaves some things I'm not sure of. Does > anyone know if Ventura will run under Wine? To see the format of > the newsletter, check out http://www.hamfest.org/newvox.pdf. > If you learn Scribus well then you can probalbly do anything you need to do for a newsletter in it. The method may seem strange but hte results are achievable.
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