Yoyo Desuyo said "Open Office includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, drawing program and data base, but I don't think it includes a Publisher-like program.
You may want to try scribus. I've never used it, but it's supposed to be crossplatform and it's free"
Scribus is more of a desktop publishing (i.e. newsletters) program. Open Office has a DRAW program that is much easier to use than Publisher. Open Office has a one-button approach to creating a PDF that you can send to anyone - not just those that happen to have a proprietary MS program. (Besides, have you ever stopped to look at how huge the publisher file is? Try sending that to an AOLer.)
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