A Printshop Equivalent for Unix?

mcorliss asks: "I'm trying to convince my wife to switch from Windows to Linux. However, one program she loves is Broderbund's PrintShop, which I haven't found a Linux equivalent of yet. Does anyone know of such a product, preferably one that's free and fairly easy to use?" For banner creation, there's Gozer and AAType, but they aren't the easiest of things to use. Unless you consider The GIMP, software for designing greeting cards (another PrintShop specialty) seems to not have appeared for Unix. So is there an all-around equivalent for PrintShop for Unix users? If not, can you get close to that same functionality using a specific set of Open Source software? If it turns out neither of the first two questions produce encouraging answers, would anyone be interested in starting an Open Source project to fill this niche?

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Actually, I think there are minuses and pluses to Marcelo's work.

It's not a lot of fun to be maintainer of a stable branch -- no glory, lots of bitching if anything breaks...and Marcelo is *young*, and could be doing other stuff.

That said, he does release releases more slowly than Linus (which might be reasonable, given that people were complaining about Linus' lack of QA in the stable branch). I do wish that he would enforce fewer things going into -rc releases, though. There should be one or two -rc releases per version, and only bugfixes in an -rc.

Also, he's had that one high-profile fuckup.