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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?
Well actually, she does a lot of other things. In fact, her two biggest applications are web browsing and office. For browsing she prefers mozilla to ie and for office she prefers open office to microsoft office (after a small adjustment period).
Of course, you might ask why I don't just install these on windows. Well, mainly, because she has an old machine with a celeron processor, and both windows 98 and 2000 ran horribly on it. Her machine was crashing at least a couple of times a week. I have now installed Linux on it, and it runs beautifully. So, although she would like to get a replacement for this one application, overall she's happier with Linux than she was with Windows.
The question is, is that worth $300 to you?
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