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Sue Doo Nym

Does anyone have any ideas for the above. I am reluctant to download
Serif 5 as it requires all your personal details such as address etc. It
is for a friends 14 year old girl. I have put Ragtime Solo on her laptop
for her for now, but she is wondering if it it will be enough for what
she wants.
Are there any others that I have missed?
Thanks in advance
 
How about Ragtime Solo? Get it here:
www.ragtime-online.com
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Great, merciful heavens!
Do you actually bother to READ the messages you reply to?
It would appear not - or your comprehension is non-existent.


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Nicolaas Hawkins said:
Great, merciful heavens!
Do you actually bother to READ the messages you reply to?
It would appear not - or your comprehension is non-existent.
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Dude, relax!
 
Sue Doo Nym scribebat:
I have put Ragtime Solo on her laptop for her for now, but she is
wondering if it it will be enough for what she wants.
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Well, it depends on what she wants to do. RagTime is quite a good and
powerful program, at least as powerful as Serif. There is another free DTP
program (Scribus, <http://www.scribus.org.uk/>) but that is only available
for Linux and BSD-Unix at the moment.
 
Onno Tasler said:
Sue Doo Nym scribebat:

Well, it depends on what she wants to do. RagTime is quite a
good and powerful program, at least as powerful as Serif. There
is another free DTP program (Scribus,
<http://www.scribus.org.uk/>) but that is only available for
Linux and BSD-Unix at the moment.
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I read somewhere that they were working on a Windows port, though.
Would be very nice...

Wald
 
I'm sorry! The next time I will submit my post to your Awesome
Magnificence to be pre-approved. I was not previously informed of your
policing of this newsgroup. I bow before your splendor.
 
Dude, relax!
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If I were any more relaxed, I'd be a blob of jelly ... and don't "dude"
me, thank you very much.

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I'm sorry! The next time I will submit my post to your Awesome
Magnificence to be pre-approved. I was not previously informed of your
policing of this newsgroup. I bow before your splendor.
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Be careful how low you bow, someone might come along and take a punt at
your butt. Oh, and don't try to be too sarcastic - you aren't very good
at it.

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Nicolaas.

2005 Pricelessware CD now available.
Pricelessware - the best of the best in freeware, as determined by the
readers of alt.comp.freeware.
E-Mail me for details: (e-mail address removed) - mention CD in subject.
 
Sue Doo Nym scribebat:

Well, it depends on what she wants to do. RagTime is quite a good and
powerful program, at least as powerful as Serif. There is another free DTP
program (Scribus, <http://www.scribus.org.uk/>) but that is only available
for Linux and BSD-Unix at the moment.
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I think she wants to do newsletter type pages, the sort of thing you
might want to do for a school magazine or flyer. I do recall her talking
about wanting fancy borders too. Although I have Ragtime Solo I have
never got past the tutorial to see exactly what there is in that line due
to so many things going on.
 
Like you and your people skills? Troll!
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What deludes you into thinking you qualify as people, billy-goat?

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Regardless,
Nicolaas.

2005 Pricelessware CD now available.
Pricelessware - the best of the best in freeware, as determined by the
readers of alt.comp.freeware.
E-Mail me for details: (e-mail address removed) - mention CD in subject.
 
Nicolaas Hawkins said:
What deludes you into thinking you qualify as people, billy-goat?

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Regardless,
Nicolaas.

2005 Pricelessware CD now available.
Pricelessware - the best of the best in freeware, as determined by the
readers of alt.comp.freeware.
E-Mail me for details: (e-mail address removed) - mention CD in subject.
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I'm now so saddened that this is what becomes freeware. :(
What is' next *grumpy*? Sending a "CD" to innocent froup users?
 
Nicolaas Hawkins <[email protected]> had
written
Great, merciful heavens!
Do you actually bother to READ the messages you reply to?
It would appear not - or your comprehension is non-existent.
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I am glad he responded before me. I missed the latter of her post as
well. I am very enthused with Ragtime as well. I too didn't like Serif
and downloaded both. Perhaps it's due to the fact I downloaded last
week and got the input from here. Enthusiasim for a particular program
may cause one to miss part of a post along with my poor eyesight.
 
I think she wants to do newsletter type pages, the sort of thing
you might want to do for a school magazine or flyer. I do recall
her talking about wanting fancy borders too. Although I have
Ragtime Solo I have never got past the tutorial to see exactly
what there is in that line due to so many things going on.
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RagTime Solo is well worth the 15 or so minutes it takes to get through
the tutorial - a very powerful DTP program for the price ;)

To a lesser degree, the Drawing program in Open Office is excellent for
whipping up good looking flyers etc; and easy to get to learn basic DTP
with. <http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html>
 
Sue Doo Nym scribebat:
I think she wants to do newsletter type pages, the sort of thing you
might want to do for a school magazine or flyer.
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Flyers are definitely not a problem, they are mentioned in the manual. If
she means "newspaper" as the usual A4-size brochure we had in school: That
can be done with RagTime, including fancy borders. It will need some
practise and tinkering, but that is possible.
 
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