Hi :) True. Writer is better than Word for this but mainly when using the native ODF format rather then the variable MS ones.
Draw is better than Writer. With either you can use Alt keyboard-arrows to move images around with more finesse. i use the keyboard arrows to get images fairly close to where i want (or drag them to roughly the correct position with the mouse) and then use the keyboard arrows while pressing the "Alt" key. Also i generally prefer to "Anchor to page" although there are many occasions when one of the other options is more suitable. Note that MS Office doesn't have the "Anchor to page" as an option and i don't think their format supports it. Scribus has a reputation for being a bit too geeky but i think their latest release has turned that around. LaTeX is still geeky but might well be worth taking the time to learn. One of my colleagues was getting great results with Scribus after just 10mins of fiddling. Over this last week i have been trying out Inkscape for poster design. So i didn't really need a DTP as such, except that my company's idea of "poster" falls into the marketing idea of "tl;dr" and everyone else translates into being a big yawn. Inkscape was great and had some neat tricks for handling text. It allowed me to sort out kerning and dynamically see the effects of increasing line-spacing, spacing between letters, pushing super or sub-scripts up or down and all sorts of good stuff. I'm going to try Scribus soon though with a view to doing my company's newsletter in it at the end of the month. I've been using Writer for it for the past couple of years and people have commented about the vast improvement in quality and the increase in speed of pulling it together. With Word it used to take a couple of weeks and only certain machines could handle it. On Writer it takes a day or even less and even the slowest machines can handle it. Regards from Tom :) On 8 November 2013 06:45, Urmas <[email protected]> wrote: > "Adam Tauno Williams": > >> but it seems I really need an >> anchor-to-paragraph-getting-as-close-as-you-can option without either >> crashing into other frames or leaving a blank inch and a half on the >> previous page. > > > I'm afraid only DTP applications can ensure adequate placement of drawings. > There's just no way to lay them out automatically so result would look nice. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
