Desktop Publishing

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And that's it... Scribus lets me create a PDF which I can send off to the printers and it's ready to go.

Open Office also lets you print to PDF. The new beta version even makes this a bit easier and for the first time includes this function in the windows version as well.

My biggest complaints, fonts, but I need to learn how to add fonts, I have about 3000 mac postscript and truetype fonts, I am sure there is a way to do it, I just need to learn.

To install fonts just open the KDE control center, go to System, and locate the Font Installer. It's pretty easy from there. You can also simply create a .fonts directory in your home directory and place your fonts in there. The will then be available to the local user.

Also Barcode creation, there are several options, again I need to learn the installs etc.

Kbarcode looks like a really nice app for this. There is no debian version (yet) but I imagine it won't take too long for someone to make one.

]So if you really want to do it... linux more than measures up. now if Knoppix ever ported to a PPC, I could use all these old Macs I have.

There is a debian ppc version. If thats a bit over the top then you can look at Yellow Dog Linux which is designed soley to run on macs.