While migrating some forum topics from an older, mostly dormant phpBB3
forum into my newer forum site, I created a thread today, describing a
project I am undertaking that employs OOo or LibreOffice subdocument
source files along with Adobe FrameMaker and Acrobat Professional. In
case anybody might want to use OOo/LibreOffice in such a manner, check
out that forum topic:
http://technicaleditor.livernoisyard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=31
<http://technicaleditor.livernoisyard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=31>.
In a nutshell, the project updates published OOo ODFAuthors 3.3 ODT
files, ports the "final" edited source files into Adobe FrameMaker via
the ODT subdocument files that were first converted into DOC files.
FrameMaker then reconfigures the book's layout to the desired page
format and takes advantage of better typesetting algorithms that DTP
apps use, but that fancy word processors like Word or OOo/LibO do not.
Also, FrameMaker can do external cross references (xrefs) very reliably,
has a dependable master-document (a book, in FrameMakerese...)
capability, plus having real run-in subheads--three areas that OOo/LibO,
plus Word, do not do well, if at all.
FrameMaker can port (distill in FrameMaker talk) a PostScript (PS) file
with the Adobe PDF printer file to use with Acrobe Acrobat Professional
for generating the actual PDF, along with bookmarks and numerous
specialized output options. Acrobat can then enable the resulting PDF
file for anybody using the ubiquitous Adobe Reader application to do
markup and comments directly on the PDF--to send back to the prepress
editors.
In case anybody might want to do something like this in their
organization, e.g., using OOo/LibO for the easier, less-specialized
authoring and copyediting tasks and employ real DTP for the higher
functions, ask away if you have any questions--either via the email
messages or via my forum, or both. I have done these for some time now
and never seem to have any real problems migrating the ODT/DOC files
into FrameMaker.
Gary
<http://technicaleditor.livernoisyard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=31>
--
Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...
--
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/
*** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***