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From: Gary Schnabl <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 23:36:29
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer excels at Newsletter
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
Hi :)
That was exactly my point. LibreOffice Writer had just achieved a level of
finesse that i wouldn't normally have expected from a normal word-processor.
It
has possibly saved the company i work for a considerable amount of money at a
time when funding has been cut and colleagues are being forced to find work
elsewhere. It's not a true DTP but it does enough that my boss mistakenly
thinks it is one (despite me constantly trying to remind him it isn't!) Lol!
Fantastic result!
Regards from
Tom :)
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