Linda Camp schreef:
Thank you, James, for your very curteous reply. I received a rude
obnoxious reply from someone else at OpenOffice to the same question you
answered here very nicely. Thanks again... Linda Camp
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Knott"
To: [email protected], "Linda Camp"
Subject: Re: [users] Publishing from Open Office
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:18:32 -0400
Linda Camp wrote:
> Thank you, James. So you're telling me that Open Office has a list
of
> software and I just select the one that the publisher prefers? I
kinda
> thought this would be how it works but wasn't sure Open Office
included
> the most popular word processing software used by publishers. Does
it
> also include Quark? Or is this a dumb question? Linda Camp
Hi Linda,
If you are your own publisher you can use OpenOffice.org to write your
books from A to Z. If you submit your books to a printer, you can export
them as .pdf-files.
OpenOffice.org allows you to create a master document and have all the
chapters in separate files, still allowing you to use the same style
throughout the entire work.
OOo has the possibility to record changes. So you can pass your chapters
to proofreaders and see what they changed to your work. At that point
you can decide to accept or reject their proposed changes.
There is also spell checking available and grammar checking is just
around the corner.
On top of all that OOo is rock solid and it works on several platforms
among which Linux (rock solid operating system which is virtually immune
to viruses and spyware), Windows and MAC OS.
If you work with a publisher and this publisher forces you to use
Microsoft's formats, you can still create/edit your documents with OOo,
but then you use Save As to export them as .doc 97/2000/XP.
I hope this helps,
Jo
A big plus is that when using OOo, you don't force your proofreaders to
purchase an overpriced office suite (or to break the law if they would
install an illegal version)
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