Hi Adrian,
I'm at the same stage, I started using OO.Draw for DTP not knowing what
it was intended for. And I find myself wondering if I should convert my
documents to Scribus. Scribus treats OO.Draw documents like it does SVG
and PNG... as in insertable smaller objects for the overall page... not
as an equal document format to its own. And I've seen plenty on the OO
forums now about how OO.Draw it isn't meant to be for DTP and more like
Visio.
Another thing about the "why A4?" point, if this is meant to be the
'equivalent to Visio' program, then please note that Visio gives you a
page the shape like Powerpoint does, not an A4 page. As a result when
someone loads Visio for the first time, it probably dawns on them by the
shape of the page it isn't meant to work like Publisher.
If the guys at the top of OO are in agreement OO.Draw is meant to be a
Visio alternative only. Then given OO.Draw gives us a decent proportion
of the features we need for a DTP, can another OO program be born to
fill the role of 'alternative to Publisher?' out of a similar code base
to OO.Draw? I suppose another OpenDocument format would need to be made
too, but then this would be ideal if we can standardise DTP formats into
one.
Cyorxamp
Adrian Try wrote:
Hi Cyorxamp
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm told OO.Draw isn't meant to be Publisher and is more meant to be Visio.
In other words diagrams, flow charts, etc... but not Desktop Publishing
I use OpenOffice.org Draw for desktop publishing. It works well!
I'm always hoping to find a document too complex for Draw so I can fiddle
with Scribus some more, but that hasn't happened yet.
Adrian
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