-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > 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 > >
There is bit more to it that .. DTP publishers also output marks used to align copy to professional printing presses and had support for some of the formats used. A volume printer is somewhat different beast to a desktop laser. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWqB6asN0sSnLmgIRAvHRAJ4pGIx6Z8zM7dsFTiWQPvBA9z/5kQCdH2jf f1hTazK1zjBp+1i6262HU8U= =oiMu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
