On 6/15/2011 5:45 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
WoooHooo. My boss (always very pro-MS) has been looking for 'a proper DTP
program' to do the company newsletter. He has been looking for quite a while.
Definitely something 'better' than Word. Various very expensive options have
been explored.
I got thrown into doing the newsletter today with no chance to prepare, no
experience, nothing. My boss was very impressed with Writer and seems to think
it is a 'proper DTP' :)) He even wants to install it :D =)) :-bd Writer
just has so much finesse for positioning pictures and formatting text around
them in different ways. Writer is elegant :)))
Thanks all for all the hints&tips and hard work
Many regards from
Tom :)
Neither (any flavor of) OpenOffice nor MS Word is technically a DTP.
They are instead very fancy word processors and work admirably well for
copyediting tasks and such. But neither of them performs the elaborate
typesetting and other document layout tasks that a true DTP application
can perform, but they work fine for most but the most demanding
functions that DTP apps excel.
Because DTP apps can be a bit pricey, an organization can easily work
with Word/OOo for most authoring and copyediting tasks and employ a true
DTP app afterward in case very high-quality typesetting and such are
required. A DTP can import DOC files and, perhaps, even ODT files, and
convert them for subsequent processing.
Gary
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