Michele Zarri wrote:
OOo on the other hand is not meant to replace professional desktop publishing applications so there is a bit of compromising to accept. Cheers, Michele
The only "professional"/dedicated type of desktop publishing software that I know about that is also open source, i.e. free, is Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/ According to their web site Scribus 1.3.5.1 was released August 11th and Windows updated November 6th. I have not tried it for a few years, since my "clients" require me to use PageMaker or InDesign. I stuck with PageMaker 7 since the newer Adobe products "require/steal" over a gig of drive space for its program/installed files. There always has been documentation troubles with Scribus, or so I understand, but it was designed to do desktop publishing, while OOo was not. Neither was MS Word, but that does not stop them from implying they can do it "well enough" to not need Adobe's products for your business needs. Still, 97%+/- of my document needs are handled great by OOo 3.x. It is just those oddball documents or people who insist on MS Office or Adobe's stuff to do the work I do for them. Hint: I do the word processing and spreadsheet work using OOo and then save it in MS's file formats. What they do not know does not hurt my bottom line. I saw here [I think] once that some people use Draw to do their single page [multi page even] DTP. It seems they figured out how to make it work easier, so they say. I have not gone into Draw much since I use Corel Draw, Inkscape, and a couple of photo editors for most of my graphics needs. I have worked with then since before OOo came out and I am not in any hurry to buy any upgrade to the paid programs [Inkscape is free] for the near future. One day I may have the time to learn Draw as well as I know Writer and Calc, but that is in the future. Still, getting back to the point, you can try Scribus and see if it is useful and easy enough for your needs. Tim L. tired of MS, Adobe, and all other bloated products [price and size]. Upgrading one computer to Win7 and the rest of them are going to Linux. [Have to keep MS office and PageMaker, plus some other windows stuff] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
