🚀 go-pugleaf

i just subscribed to this newsgroup today (and ploughed thru 350+
articles) because i'm contemplating the purchase of a Mac and seek
sound advice.  (note the absence of cross posting to comp.sys.amiga or
comp.sys.atari.  i'd like to avoid WW III.)

i'm free-lance publishing some books for deaf children (with a little
financial assistance from a charitable organization), hence there's
considerable line art (sketches of signs).  so i need to build up a
library of clip art, be able to scan images, edit the scans, merge two
or more images, create fonts (to do page numbers in sign 8-) ), and produce
camera ready copy (probably on LaserWriter, vs. PMT).

anybody into desktop publishing?  recommendations on what to purchase?
i've seen brief demos of Aldus PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator (cost
is an ouch!  maybe SuperPaint is better?).  is the cost difference
between an SE and a Plus modest enough to really recommend the SE? (i'm
getting shy of the SE after the reported problems)  how does ThunderScan
compare to others?  would it do the job?

i'm limited cash-wise to around $3k total.  thanks for the free advice.
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