My wife is quitting her job and going whole hog into Personal Histories. For this I have to retool her home office to publish these personal histories from soup to nuts.

Rather than investing in more bloated M$ apps, I was going to get her to use KNOPPIX!

So, my question is, does KNOPPIX have everything we need, or most of what we need, the rest we could download onto a knx-hdinstalled PC?

For example, I know that The Gimp is like Adobe PhotoShop and is already included in the KNOPPIX CD. What about stuff like Adobe Pagemaker or Quark Express or Adobe Acrobat?

Anyone out there familiar with the publishing industry, I'd REALLY appreciate your input as I'll be the tech advisor on this venture.

She will do all the business end of lining-up and interviewing clients (10 hours or so on mp3 player/recorder) and writing. I will do all the transcribing, desktop publishing, scanning of pictures and layout. We have to get to the point where each book is ready for a bindery.

BTW, if anyone can suggest a good bindery, I'd REALLY appreciate that too!

TIA,