James Knott wrote:
Drew Jensen wrote:
One feature of MS Publisher that is a problem, with a quick 'just get
Scribus' answer, is that MS Publisher sold itself as a web page
publishing tool. Now, I never used it for that.(please let's not get
into how bad it is in this thread!). If they are looking for that,
then Scribus is certainly not where you send them. OpenOffice.org
again offers this feature native - (again please let's not get into
how bad it is in this thread! *chuckle*)
So if they just ask about MS Publisher I would suggest first ask Why
- if it is for the web features no need to suggest Scribus. If for
press ready documents then Scribus, otherwise I would suggest they
take a long look at what you can do with this office suite.
Of course, OOo can be used to create web documents.
I stayed away from Publisher as much as possible. I also had to use
PageMaker for newsletters. I never, never, considered using either for
web page creation. I use Kompozer, which is open-source. Now I am using
OOo, and still learning to use it, for my newsletter work. I also do a
lot of text work, including formatting and image placement, using Writer
first, then copy/paste it into Kompozer.
I have not done more than a look-see into Scribus. Last time I knew
"they" wanted you to pay for the offline docs. So I have not done much
with that piece of software. Now that I am using Ubuntu as my default
system, and have only one laptop as a Windows system, I no longer deal
with Publisher or PageMaker unless I really must use it. So I create
the text for web pages with OOo and the final web pages with Kompozer.
I have not tried doing the complete and final web page with OOo. Word
claimed it was the "perfect" web page creation software, then when you
looked at it with a regular WYSIWYG web page editer, you will see the
super-messy web page coding that cannot be worked with properly, or
viewed properly, outside of the MS environment. So I have not dealt
with OOo as a web page editor. If others say it is good, then I will
not say otherwise. I just deal with it differently. I started web page
design using a text editor like notetab++ and/or text-only editors.
WYSIWYG was not how you did it when I started web page design.
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