Hi Heracles, Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable, and it is available for most of the Linux distributions (and other platforms).
Have a nice day. Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos | www.aleux.com | MSN: [email protected] On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Heracles <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a > computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me > a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate > the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which > the format is fairly fixed. > > Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index > (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is > basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. > Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 > columns with a footer but no header. > > I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and > created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was > wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the > whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in > the new body text each month. > > Any recommendation would be appreciated. > > Heracles > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW > oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri > =mOlx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
