On 4/6/10 9:12 PM, Drew Jensen wrote:
PDF is IMO the primary file format used by Scribus. Scribus IMO supports
pdf more deeply then does OpenOffice.org.
A few times a week we get threads with misperceptions about PDF.
PDF is a for the terminal stage of a document's life cycle.
From PDF, it can go two places: the printer or the bit bucket.
We could save a lot of time and grief for the users or the list to get
the word out that the original documents must be saved and that if all
they have is the PDF, then they have lost the document, it is gone and
not coming back. "Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely gone beyond,
disablement, bail..." ;)
Importing PDF is really a form of disaster mitigation and in many cases
provides only an uneditable B.L.O.B. to embed in another file.
Mac and Linux desktops have good PDF export and it is clear that it is
export. So that helps.
Well, Draw is just a drawing package, and OpenOffice.org is just an
suite of office applications but together they can do most of what used
to require a Desktop Publishing system.
One DTP feature missing from OOo Draw is the ability for text to flow
between text frames. QuarkXPress would be overkill for most users.
The last few times I've had to send things to a commercial printer
they've wanted SVG, but would begrudgingly accept encapsulated PDF.
I didn't get a look at the software used, it would be useful to know,
but it would help if Adobe's products supported ODF.
... There seems to be a steady stream of folks asking about MS ...
Some is legit. Some is just trolling / shilling.
So if they just ask about MS...
If they ask anything about MS (and are legitimate) then it is always
necessary to ask clarifying questions about what is it they are really
trying to do. However, the individual will likely have difficulty
expressing it or may speak Microserf which uses its own words instead of
industry standard nomenclature.
Regards
/Lars
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