Since OpenOffice is open .... err... [circle redundance detected] Just let every one install OpenOffice \o/ so the problem is solved!!
Problems with layout comes within different versions of word it self, so just let everyone step in a common ground and use OpenOffice.... [entusiastic mode off] ^_^v Kirk Tirakian escreveu: > OpenOffice is it is a nice cheap office suite > if you want to read the letter Auntie wrote you with her genuine MS Word > or the spreadsheet from your favorite club's annual financial statement. > However, I have experienced creating a more complex layout than a > simple letter > and the elements DID NOT stay in exactly the same place and/or size > in OpenOffice > as they were in MS Word. So I would stay in a like to like mode if > you are collaborating with > others to make a newsletter or some other print item. MS Word is a > hair pulling experience by itself > that will only get worse if you are doing Word to OpenOffice or vice > versa. > > Kirk > On Nov 26, 2007, at 7:42 AM, avox wrote: > > >> >> Eddie-58 wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> I currently produce a news letter in word, but I am trying to swap to >>> using open source program's. >>> The problem is that at the other end the people who turn it into a >>> printed newsletter only use word. >>> Having discovered Scribus, I would be interested to know if there >>> is any >>> way I can export to a word format . >>> >>> >> Scribus is a page layout program that makes it easy to arrange text >> and >> graphics for the printed version. Word is a wordprocessor, and >> horrible for >> doing any layout work. >> >> If others insist on using word for final layout, make sure that you >> will not >> be involved in the layout process and use OpenOffice to prepare >> your texts. >> >> If you care about the emotional well-being of the ones doing the >> layout, >> convince them to use Scribus. >> >> /Andreas >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/scribus-to-word- >> tf4873505.html#a13948651 >> Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Scribus mailing list >> Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
