On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:51:20 +0100 Gustaf Skar <[email protected]> dijo:
>I have a question related to fonts. I'm used to work in Indesign where >it is possible to enable the built in ligatures and "true" small caps >of an open type. Can this be done in Open Office? I know of no open source text editor or layout program that can do what InDesign does here. In fact, I don't know of any program at all that can do it. And OOo will probably be the last to enable the feature, if even it ever does. OOo/Linux did not even recognize most OpenType fonts at all until the very recent version 3.2. If you are accustomed to InDesign I suggest you look at Scribus. The development version (1.3.5.1) is officially not to be used for production work, but I recently used it to complete a 140 page book with no significant problems. Scribus is a layout app with the same "way of thinking" as InDesign. Of all the open source apps, Scribus will probably be the first to enable OTF ligatures and true small caps. I formerly used MS Office, Illustrator and Photoshop with layout in InDesign. Then I switched from MS Office to OOo. Then I switched from Windows to Linux. Then I replaced Illustrator with Inkscape, Photoshop with the Gimp and InDesign with Scribus. It's not quite as smooth as it was with the proprietary tools, but my files are not being held hostage by corporations that don't care about anything beyond extracting as much of my cash as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
