Desktop Publishing for Unix?

weierophinney asks: "In a past job incarnation, I was a graphic artist and page layout technician for a small guidebook publisher. We were a Windows-based shop, and I used Macromedia Freehand for drawing maps, Adobe Photoshop for scanning and sizing images, and Quark XPress for book layout. I have since moved on to web programming, but occasionally want to do something that would use these tools. While I use GIMP regularly, I have yet to find a -good- free, open-source, alternative to the 2D vector graphics programs I used, or a page layout program with the power of Quark XPress. Is anybody in the Linux community doing publishing or using such tools, be they commercial or otherwise? Is Linux a viable option for small publishers (where profits are often slim and money for software upgrades is sparse)?"

Comments

To be is to do

[fm6]

This is just my opinion: use the tools that work best for you, and don't worry about anything else.

Opinion? Sounds more like basic logic to me. A computer is something you do things with after all. The specific technology is just an implementation detail.

Alas, almost nobody gets this. Most people subscribe to this technreligion or that, and follows it blindly. Oh well.