Tracy R Reed wrote:
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Robert Donovan wrote:
OO. OO is still good for creating content, which can be put into scribus
documents. The scribus PDFs also come out better when displayed by Adobe
Actually, when it comes to just plain composing/editing text I think vi
(or emacs if that's the way you swing) are better. Then paste it into
Scribus for layout. I'm really not sure where OO falls into things. The
more I learn and agree with the idea of separation of
content/presentation the less need I see for a word processor which is
really stuck in a nebulous middle-ground where it does neither
composition nor layout very well.
I really wish more applications would implement vi style key bindings.
There needs to be a libvim which you can call from your app which will
give all of vim's wonderful text editing abilities to your text editing
widget so we don't have to suffer with crummy editing in our GUI email
applications, web browsers, word processors, etc. This has long been a
complaint of mine, ever since I started entering a lot of text into web
apps.
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Agreed and agreed, I was just confining my answer to the question asked
because I was in a hurry. This is one area where I have to give MS(the
devil) his due. If one must use a GUI to create page content for a
program like Pagemaker, QuarkEpress, or Scribus, Word, even though I
never use it any more, can place graphics on a page to 1/100th of an
inch, and come out very well in PDF if you run it through Adobe
distiller via postscript. OO is just not quite as that good for stuff
like that. That said, given the choice, you just can't beat a basic text
editor and a text formatting language for precision and accuracy in your
layouts. The trouble with these is that most of my clients want a GUI
solution(having given the Devil his due, I now curse the MS addiction),
and OO plus scribus is pretty impressive. OO Writer, Calc, Draw,
Impress, and GIMP can all be used to create Scribus content, and you can
produce PDFs that most POD print shops can use to produce near
offset-press quality results. End Commercial.
Robert Donovan
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