On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:39:06AM -0800, George Farris wrote: > If you're looking for a drawing package take a look at Inkscape. > http://www.inkscape.org/ For vectorgraphics, I still use "xfig". Might *look* a bit archaic these days, but is very powerful. Also, there is "dia". As an MS Word replacement, there's also Textmaker. I've run a trial version from them once and it looked very promising. I also read a discussion recently where users stated that Textmaker apparently deals even better with MS Word documents than OpenOffice 1.1. Of course, I cannot verify this myself. See http://www.softmaker.de/index_en.htm It's not an Open Source program, though. There are so many programs out there, it's hard to keep track... :-) Cheerio, Thomas -- ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <=== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"