On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 � 11:23 -0700, Chris BONDE a �crit : > > Right ON! > > > > Similar questions from brochure to newsletters to booklets have been asked. > > > > Chris > > > > > Ok, from the responses, it sounds like MS-Publisher is around because > > > it was bundled for a while with other MS products. > > > > > > Perhaps an article or tutorial or HOWTO on the topic of using OOo for > > > flyers or newsletters is in order. > > A real dtp mode would be better. Publisher sucks, but dtp itself is so > much more powerful than word processing. Had publisher and word been > published at the same time, I'm not so sure word would not be the ugly > office duckling now. Of course word processing can work in text mode, so > by the time publisher was feasible word was already well established at > Microsoft.
But how many serious DTP people actualy use MS Publisher? Not many. They pay more money for Quark etc because its better. The concept of a document processor was late coming to the PC. Since 1990 and outline scalable fonts there really has been no technological reason to spearate WP from DTP apart perhaps from marketing. You could write a fully functioned DTP package and run it on a PDA these days. A well designed application with a well designed UI can cover all that is needed. The fact that graphics handling in Word is weak compared to that in a DTP package is not a technological issue. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
