Pueblo Native wrote:
jdd wrote:
think at what make these apps different. I did some years ago and
found only one: the ability to have a text span several boxes
and this can be achieved in OpenOffice .org.
It's not obvious and I don't remember the recipe, but it can be done...
My original idea was that the biggest difference between these products
was how they treated text. In a word processor, for instance, most of
the time text was text. In a DTP product, on the other hand, text is a
design element, just like photos and other graphics. That was my
original concept, and I think that's pretty much gotten smashed.
A publisher program is able to giv a large page with différent objects
in it, like a news paper.
Nearly any modern word processor can do so, that is have frames around
a page with text, photos, titles, drawings...
But on a news paper, on can see the beginning of an article on the
front page and the following on an other page or on an other column of
the same page
OpenOffice is able to do so, thouhg not woth ease and when I tryed it
(at least two years ago), this feature was biggy - I hope this is
fixed now.
Notice than I use some old version of publiser by microsoft and it was
a very good application, verye asy to use (I used it in classroom with
pupils), much easier than PageMaker or Ventura (you see, I'm an old
timer :-) I do not use such progamms for at least 3 years now, so I
don'"t know what happen
jdd
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