On 1 May 2011 00:05, plino <[email protected]> wrote: > @Ian > > > Over 20 years ago I used Impression Publisher and it could rotate > graphics > > You are confusing programs: a Word Processor (such as LibreOffice Writer) > is > not a Desktop Publishing software. >
Impression Publisher was a document processor. It was perfectly possible to write a simple letter or publish a magazine with it. Mostly the reasons for the separation of WP and DTP were limitations of the technologies that made DTP much more expensive because it was graphically based whereas WP was character based. That was 30 years ago, everything is graphically based now so no need for a distinction. There really should be no need to make what is an artificial distinction these days. Is this book I published WP or DTP? http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fListingClass=0&fSearch=Tales+from+the+Microcosm. or http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fListingClass=0&fSearch=International+grades&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc I suggest that you use the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Desktop > Publisher named Scribus > No practical need. In fact Scribus, as far as I know, is at least partly inspired by Impression. We do use it for a newsletter production but the fact is it would be simpler to just use Inkscape for that. Really the ideal application design would be a modular system a bit like Drupal or Firefox plugins where you installed modules in a framework for basic text processing, graphics handling etc as needed. The equivalent of Impression Publisher these days would be just a "Publisher" that could be configured in a modular way to do text editing, web publishing, WP, DTP etc by adding open standards compliant modules that communicated in a standard way between each other but could be implemented independently of each other. Then contributed modules would be easier to write and easier to maintain or configure in a devolved way. If someone modified an element of the modular structure it could be simply plugged in as a replacement. http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus-- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Two-simple-writer-annoyances-tp2878308p2884429.html > Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
