[discuss] Publisher feature?

2008-05-09 Thread Jeff H .
How about including a Publisher-like feature in a future release? One that would import/export .pub files, of course. That would rock! -Jeff

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2008-05-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:01 -0500, Jeff H. wrote: How about including a Publisher-like feature in a future release? One that would import/export .pub files, of course. .Pub files would take a huge amount of work to reverse engineer. There are likely better ways of spending that resource. Most

Re: [discuss] Publisher

2007-12-10 Thread jonathon
On Dec 5, 2007 4:08 PM, jose oliveira wrote: do you have any software ompatible or that can substitue MS Publisher. It all depends upon what type of publishing you are trying to do. OOo can do most of the things that Word can do, and some things that are impossible to do with MSWord. OOo can

[discuss] Publisher

2007-12-09 Thread jose oliveira
do you have any software ompatible or that can substitue MS Publisher. tks -- Jose Oliveira 934911528 www.frog.com.pt

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2007-12-09 Thread Paul
do you have any software ompatible or that can substitue MS Publisher. Alot of what Publisher can do can be achived using Draw and writer components of OpenOffice. There is no single component that is like publisher. You'd have to be a little more specific about what you are trying to do for

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2007-09-17 Thread Lars Noodén
Alexandro Colorado wrote: ... I preffer the freedom that Draw gives me and I just miss that I can't link frames by a continuation of text. ... Draw is quite good and I find myself using it often for quick one-off posters and flyers. I'd definitely like to have the ability to continue text

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2007-09-17 Thread Mark S
Thank you for all the information Mark Dave Barton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message From: Bruce Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun 16 Sep 2007 12:37:03 EST On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 12:39 -0600, Mark S wrote: Is there, or will

Re: [discuss] Publisher

2007-09-16 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:37:03 -0500, Bruce Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 12:39 -0600, Mark S wrote: Is there, or will there be, something comparable with publisher? There already is. Writer is not just a word processor, but also a reasonably good desktop publishing

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2007-09-16 Thread KAMI
Alexandro Colorado írta: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:37:03 -0500, Bruce Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 12:39 -0600, Mark S wrote: Is there, or will there be, something comparable with publisher? There already is. Writer is not just a word processor, but also a reasonably

Re: [discuss] Publisher

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:39:35 -0600 Mark S wrote: Is there, or will there be, something comparable with publisher? Publisher is not a real Desktop Publishing Program. Despite Microsofts best effort it is a word processor with reasonable use of text frames and a good quantity of templates.

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2007-09-16 Thread Dave Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message From: Bruce Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun 16 Sep 2007 12:37:03 EST On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 12:39 -0600, Mark S wrote: Is there, or will there be, something comparable with publisher? There already is.

[discuss] Publisher

2007-09-15 Thread Mark S
Is there, or will there be, something comparable with publisher?

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2007-09-15 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 12:39 -0600, Mark S wrote: Is there, or will there be, something comparable with publisher? There already is. Writer is not just a word processor, but also a reasonably good desktop publishing program. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 Burnaby, BC, Canada web:

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-27 Thread Stephanie Boulee
Okay, thanks. If I happen to come up with something I will. What email address should I use to send it to you directly? Stephanie KAMI wrote: You can send it me directly. I will import it into hidden ooo gallery then open an issue. KAMI Stephanie Boulee írta: KAMI wrote: Stephanie

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-25 Thread KAMI
You can send it me directly. I will import it into hidden ooo gallery then open an issue. KAMI Stephanie Boulee írta: KAMI wrote: Stephanie Boulee írta: I find Fontwork to be really good; compared to WordArt even better in most ways. I would like being able to rotate by dragging a

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2007-01-24 Thread KAMI
You can send it me directly. I will import it into hidden ooo gallery then open an issue. KAMI Stephanie Boulee írta: KAMI wrote: Stephanie Boulee írta: I find Fontwork to be really good; compared to WordArt even better in most ways. I would like being able to rotate by dragging a

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-22 Thread Stephanie Boulee
Jonathon Coombes wrote: On 21/01/2007, at 5:29 PM, Stephanie Boulee wrote: Jonathon Coombes wrote: On 21/01/2007, at 1:49 PM, Jonathon wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: You can use draw to do whatever u need. Creating 10 point upside down text using Draw is not a straight forward

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-22 Thread Stephanie Boulee
KAMI wrote: Stephanie Boulee írta: I find Fontwork to be really good; compared to WordArt even better in most ways. I would like being able to rotate by dragging a handle like in office, and to havea few more gradient options (for many things) and easier to use color options. (see below)

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2007-01-22 Thread Jonathon
Jonathon Coombes wrote: Maybe I missed something here, but why is upside down text difficult in Draw? Can't you just use the Position and Size option on the text I was copying documents in Rongo-Rongo. FWIW, I ended up using Calc. xan jonathon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

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2007-01-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:29:55 -0600, Stephanie Boulee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathon Coombes wrote: On 21/01/2007, at 1:49 PM, Jonathon wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: You can use draw to do whatever u need. Creating 10 point upside down text using Draw is not a straight forward

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-21 Thread KAMI
Stephanie Boulee írta: I find Fontwork to be really good; compared to WordArt even better in most ways. I would like being able to rotate by dragging a handle like in office, and to havea few more gradient options (for many things) and easier to use color options. (see below) Also borders

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:08 +, Julia Chantrell wrote: Are there any plans to include a publisher in Open Office? It does everything else / opens everything that MS Office does, but not publisher. That is because even MS Word can't open Publisher files! The time and effort to reverse

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Hi, Julia, If you are getting into desktop publishing, please do yourself a favor and look at Quark or Adobe's InDesign. These are what the professionals use. If you are looking for an open source option, Inkscape is closer to Illustrator and is 'compatible' with OpenOffice.org or any

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:08:50 -0600, Julia Chantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans to include a publisher in Open Office? It does everything else / opens everything that MS Office does, but not publisher. J Chantrell You can use draw to do whatever u need. -- Alexandro

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Jonathon
Alexandro Colorado wrote: You can use draw to do whatever u need. Creating 10 point upside down text using Draw is not a straight forward process. xan jonathon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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2007-01-20 Thread Miles Lane
I just tried Printmaster 16 for the first time. A friend of mine is a very enthusiastic user of this program. Anyone else here tried this program? Personally, what I am really interested in seeing is complete support for MS Word's WordArt. I find I am unable to edit WordArt with Writer.

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On 21/01/2007, at 1:49 PM, Jonathon wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: You can use draw to do whatever u need. Creating 10 point upside down text using Draw is not a straight forward process. Hi Jonathon, Maybe I missed something here, but why is upside down text difficult in Draw?

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephanie Boulee
Miles Lane wrote: Personally, what I am really interested in seeing is complete support for MS Word's WordArt. I find I am unable to edit WordArt with Writer. I find Fontwork to be really good; compared to WordArt even better in most ways. I would like being able to rotate by dragging a

Re: [discuss] Publisher equivalent?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephanie Boulee
Jonathon Coombes wrote: On 21/01/2007, at 1:49 PM, Jonathon wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: You can use draw to do whatever u need. Creating 10 point upside down text using Draw is not a straight forward process. Hi Jonathon, Maybe I missed something here, but why is upside down

Re: [discuss] Publisher?

2006-05-03 Thread Cristian Driga
Hi Kopers, Kopers wrote: Hi there, I have just started using Open Office and apart from needing to spend some time getting to know it, I'm really very impressed. Thanks so much for offering this program free of charge. Thanks for using OpenOffice.org. I was wondering if you will have a

Re: [discuss] Publisher

2006-02-10 Thread John Boyle
To All: Scribus is also available for Windows, although not in a stable release, yet!!! Paul wrote: OOo comes with draw which is a vector based drawing program. It can be used for the same sort of things as publisher. There are templates available as well... Have a look at :

[discuss] Publisher

2005-12-29 Thread Zebri Shaari
Hi, Congrats on your overall success. Is there plans to include a software similar to that of *microsoft publisher* or is there already a feature or software with open office that you could easily create vouchers/brochures etc. Thanks. -- Best of Regards, Zeb

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2005-12-29 Thread Paul
OOo comes with draw which is a vector based drawing program. It can be used for the same sort of things as publisher. There are templates available as well... Have a look at : http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/ /paul On 12/28/05, Zebri Shaari [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2005-10-06 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue October 4 2005 21:02, + melissa wrote: I am looking for a open source version of Microsoft's Publisher? Is that something that is possibly in the works, or do you have any suggestions for a program that is compatible with that? Thank you very much for any help and I love the

[discuss] Publisher

2005-10-04 Thread melissa
I am looking for a open source version of Microsoft's Publisher? Is that something that is possibly in the works, or do you have any suggestions for a program that is compatible with that? Thank you very much for any help and I love the opportunity you are giving people who otherwise would

[discuss] Publisher

2005-10-02 Thread A Dodd
Dear Sir/Madam Please could you answer the following question. Will OpenOffice ever have a publisher (like Ms Publisher) added to it? Thank you for your time.

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2005-10-02 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:31:43 +0300, A Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam Please could you answer the following question. Will OpenOffice ever have a publisher (like Ms Publisher) added to it? What functionality are you looking for exactly? I haven't used MS publisher much, but

[discuss] Publisher compatible program?

2005-08-21 Thread Bob Beller
Just wondering if OO is planning on a program to work with MS Publisher type files in the future; or if there is already an open source (Windows) program that will work with them. That would be the final piece to not installing Office Pro on my next computer.

Re: [discuss] Publisher compatible program?

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Bob, No, OpenOffice.org does not open MS Publisher files, nor do I know of any other program that does. As you probably know, MS Publisher uses a secret propietary format. It would take years of work to guess how it works, during which time Microsoft wuold be free to keep changing it

Re: [discuss] Publisher like program

2005-05-27 Thread Sander Vesik
--- Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it's name is Scribus: www.scribus.org scribus.net and its unfortunately not really quite that good overall Sander .sigless ___ How much free photo storage do you

Re: [discuss] Publisher like program

2005-05-27 Thread Jonathon Blake
Joel wrote: adding a publisher like program to OOo What functionality does Publisher have, that OOo does not have? xan jonathon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2005-05-27 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Since you are not subscribed, you may have missed this post. Jonathon Blake wrote: Joel wrote: adding a publisher like program to OOo What functionality does Publisher have, that OOo does not have? xan jonathon -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to help?

[discuss] Publisher like program

2005-05-26 Thread jmadero
My name is Joel Madero and I mainly use Openoffice for school work and personal use but also use it for business puroposes. I was wondering if anyone has brought up possibly adding a publisher like program to openoffice. This type of program seems like it would be more useful than a database

Re: [discuss] Publisher like program

2005-05-26 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Yes it's name is Scribus: www.scribus.org Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My name is Joel Madero and I mainly use Openoffice for school work and personal use but also use it for business puroposes. I was wondering if anyone has brought up possibly adding a publisher like program to openoffice. This

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2005-04-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 23:15 -0700, Chris BONDE a crit : Nicolas: Comments below Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 11:23 -0700, Chris BONDE a crit : Right ON! Similar questions from brochure to newsletters to booklets have been asked. Chris Ok, from the responses,

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2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
://es.openoffice.org/ - Mensaje reenviado de Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fecha: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:03:00 +0300 De: Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] Responder-A: Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [discuss] publisher Para: discuss@openoffice.org Only if you

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2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Usually the reason is how this people got introduced to Publishing software. MS Publisher comes from MSO. Same can be sayed with FrontPage even if Dreamweaver is ages ahead in windows. BTW I just download NVU and they are getting there, the new support for Layers are great. -- Alexandro Colorado

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2005-04-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Ven 8 avril 2005 13:07, Lars D. Noodén a écrit : Scribus does seem interesting, but I am curious as to how people ended up with MS-Publisher in the first place. Same reason as they ended up with word and excel : it was cheaper than the alternatives at the time. Contrary to word though I

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2005-04-08 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Ok, from the responses, it sounds like MS-Publisher is around because it was bundled for a while with other MS products. Perhaps an article or tutorial or HOWTO on the topic of using OOo for flyers or newsletters is in order. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents harm

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2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Mensaje citado por Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 11:23 -0700, Chris BONDE a écrit : Right ON! Similar questions from brochure to newsletters to booklets have been asked. Chris Ok, from the

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:44, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Well publisher is a dtp joke actually. I wasn't writing let's do publisher but let's add a serious dtp mode to oo.o It'll have to get in the queue behind a lot of other rfes unless you know a source to fund the development. (For those

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2005-04-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Only if you are in Linux, but this is the FAQ from SCRIBUS: Will there be a windows version of Scribus ? A native Win32 port is underway by one of the Scribus developers. There is no targeted date for completion. It is possible, but not really easy to build Scribus with Cygwin and the