I'm in the process of writing a system guide for some of my products.  I 
have quite quickly came to the conclusion that OpenOffice isn't the 
right tool for the job (I knew that going in, but figured I'd give it a 
shot anyways).

I'm needing to produce a multipage manual with images, charts, and the 
like, and I just don't have the page layout control I need in OO 
write.   On the other hand, OO impress gives me too much control.

The Mikro-e manuals (such as the one at 
http://www.mikroe.com/pdf/easypic4/easypic4_manual.pdf ) are similar to 
what I am trying to accomplish.  This is really a rather simple layout - 
alternating headers/footers top and bottom, images, text flow around 
images, etc.    I'll need to be able to do chapter headings as well.

I'm hoping that some of the EE types on the list have had experience 
with a reasonably useful program to do something like this without 
resorting to a full copy of PageMaker or something similar (although if 
pagemaker wasn't $500, I'd be thinking about it).   I have tried Scribus 
in the past and my impression was that it was a bit green still...

Ideas?

-forrest
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