A Printshop Equivalent for Unix?

Posted by Cliff on Monday September 16, 2002 @10:02PM from the cliparts-banners-and-greeting-cards...oh-my! dept.

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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Can you spare $300? by LordNimon · 2002-09-17 04:27 · Score: 4, Informative

VMWare costs $300, half that if you're a student. You can set it up so that whenever she launches VMWare, it automatically launches PrintShop. That way, she can use Linux for everything but PrintShop.
The question is, is that worth $300 to you?

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