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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So after spending most of yesterday playing with it, google, wiki, etc. > going through all your comments and so on, I'm now at the point where I can > actually put together a few pages of something similar to what my wife wants > to produce using publisher - and I got her to use it again and we went > through some things. > > Simply forwarding comments you've made to my wife doesn't actually seem to > work. It seems that when things are sufficiently different to what she's > used to, then confusion ensues - and I suspect this is true for most people. > > Everything is (of-course) easy - when you know how! So we've mastered image > rotation, typing text directly into boxes, putting boxes round things, even > getting text to flow around a curve (although drawing the curve still > remains something of a challenge) This suggestion might seem daft after you have put all this effort in, but I am pretty sure Inkscape could do all the above quite easily. I found the interface easy to learn. Just a thought. Best wishes roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq