If I looked at another commercial alternative, I would like it to be a bit more cross platform. Indesign is available for Mac & Windows but not Linux.
I think we have more chance of changing to Linux than changing to Mac. I like OSX. I would like it a lot more if it wasn't bound to Apple hardware. I was just hit with another annoyance. Govt departments who only test their web apps against IE. One of our users was trying to get some EPC stats from the Dept of Health site but all of the drop down lists were empty in Firefox. The contact person at thier end couldn't shed any light on why there was nothing in the lists. I asked our user to try it in IE and it worked fine :( Cheers, Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: Andre Duszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 3:29:36 PM Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] OpenOffice 2.0 Regarding the use of MS Publisher, this program has to be the worst of the legacy MS products that somehow still exists to this day. I wouldn't bother looking for a product that offers feature parity and the capability of importing MS Pub files; suggest rather that you make a clean break to a proper WYSIWYG product. As a not-for-profit, the MDGP should be able to afford Adobe InDesign at academic pricing. The learning curve will not be too dissimilar to picking up Scribus and has the added benefit of offering staff an entry point into a widely used (and held) desktop publishing package; PDF, web, deadwood, whatever... Quark Xpress in this regard is dead, as is Adobe Pagemaker which is EOL. And no, Indesign doesn't do clipart :-) ------------- Neil D. McAliece wrote: <SNIP> > The other main problem is the few user we have who use (and are probably > commited to using) MS Publisher. Scribus makes a fantastic alternative, but > will require some training and it will not open Publisher docs. > > Neil McAliece > Murrumbidgee Division of General Practice > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 11:05:39 PM > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] OpenOffice 2.0 > > <snip quote> > More like training a staff member to use OOO was going to cost more > dollars or time than the cost of the academic edition of M$ Office. > > The network externalities effects make unseating an incumbent a very > long-term project (years-decades). > > As well as that, it is general human nature to desire to learn from > personal mistakes rather than the wisdom and experience of those that > have gone before. It's probably a power and control thing that dates > to teenagerdom. > > BTW, here's an interesting "switch" story over several weeks from an > IT security consultant. > http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/09/mad-as-hell-switching-to-mac-1-16.html > > I am amazed how bad Windows XP is. No doubt, Longhorm will have a lot > of badness still bred into it, but that won't stop people forking out! > > Ian. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
