[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Cameron Bell]

We have all those installed around the school for just those reasons.  ;-)
Especially Scribus as the inability of Publisher to be compatible with 
even itself is excruciating!


victor rajewski wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>> We are moving the school over to Open Office for long term
>> compatability, readability and multi OS availability. AND the fact it is
>> $0 for *all* students.  ;)
>
> On that note, can I point out there are also some cool cross platform
> open source design tools out there - Gimp does a mighty good job
> replacing photoshop, Inkscape is a vector graphics program much like
> illustrator, and for desktop publishing there is Scribus. All free,
> all use open file formats, and all run on Windows, OSX, and Linux.
>
> There is also OpenOffice Draw, but I haven't used it yet.
>
> I just had my first play with Inkscape this afternoon, and found it
> easier to use in a lot of respects than Illustrator :)
>
> vik
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