On 05/17/2007 11:34 AM, James Knott wrote: > PETER RUDDELL wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm new to openoffice. Is there an openoffice software similar to MS >> publisher? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Peter >> > There's not one within OpenOffice, but you may want to try Scribus.
I have MS Publisher on an old Windows partition and a few years ago used it quite alot. Aside from the supplied Publisher templates I can do everything (and more) that Publisher does in OOo. Additionally, once I create a document/brochure/etc in OOo I can actually share it with someone in ODF format etc. You can't do that in MS Publisher. > > http://www.scribus.net > Scribus is excellent... if you are looking for a DeskTop Publishing (DTP) program comparible to Adobe PageMaker (which I use) etc. I wouldn't consider MS Publisher to be a 'real' DTP and think that most that ask about MS Publisher aren't doing any 'real' DTP anyway - otherwise they'd be asking about PageMaker or QuarkXpress etc. Most are simply doing a brochure, newsletter, card, etc., and do not yet know how to use OOo to accomplish those tasks. For the OP: Have a look at this nice, easy, article of using OOo in a manner similar to MS Publisher: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7495 [Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org] Don't worry about it's linux references, OOo is pretty much OOo on linux, windows, solaris etc (unlike MS Publisher). Also note that the article is dated 2004 and uses OOo 1.1.0; OOo has come a long way since that version so you can do considerably more today. Also see the following for helpful information on OOo and how to use OOo to accomplish what you do in MS Publisher: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html http://documentation.openoffice.org/ http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
