Mensaje citado por Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 11:23 -0700, Chris BONDE a écrit : > > > 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 >
Well actually the reason of this post has nothing to do on evaluating if Publisher is better or not. The post were developed because an end user wonder if there was an alternative of MS Publisher in Open Source. Unfortunately there is not (under windows) unless you go through the process of emulating unix, X11 and gtk runtime so you can run Scribus in windows. Saying that, Draw can also be used for dtp, not 'serious one' but good enough to acomplish basic tasks. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
