Posted by: Administrator
on March 01, 2006 01:13 AM
I haven't used Scribus but based on this article I'm not going to.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;>
Writer has a huge number of features, and I didn't really see what Scribus adds. Some OOo features are a bit painful to implement but you can do a lot. Jean Weber has a site about how to bend Writer to your will for techwriting. <a href="http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/" title="taming-ope...ce-org.com">http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/</a taming-ope...ce-org.com>
I've outlined some of the issues with Writer for books. <a href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/10/is_openofficeor.html" title="blogs.com">http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/10/is<nobr>_<wbr></nobr> openofficeor.html</a blogs.com>
That said, OpenOffice.org Writer will do most of what you need.
-Frames that can skip from one page to another. Start typing on page 12 and the text pops out in the connected frame on page 12. -Sections and frames can both have multi-column layouts, shading, borders, etc. -Nice built-in writing tools and word art tools (FontWork). -Very powerful styles. Huge. Including page styles which you can use like master pages. -Master files, cross-referencing within and between documents in master files -Lots of page setup stuff like backgrounds, borders, any page size you want
You might want to just consider using Draw as a brochure layout tool. The text boxes are pretty limited but if it's a mostly graphical brochure rather than based on text flow, the grid and other aspects of Draw might be better for some brochures, postcards, etc.
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Re:Scribus doesn't do....
Posted by: Administrator on March 01, 2006 01:13 AMWriter has a huge number of features, and I didn't really see what Scribus adds. Some OOo features are a bit painful to implement but you can do a lot.
Jean Weber has a site about how to bend Writer to your will for techwriting.
<a href="http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/" title="taming-ope...ce-org.com">http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/</a taming-ope...ce-org.com>
I've outlined some of the issues with Writer for books.
<a href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/10/is_openofficeor.html" title="blogs.com">http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/10/is<nobr>_<wbr></nobr> openofficeor.html</a blogs.com>
That said, OpenOffice.org Writer will do most of what you need.
-Frames that can skip from one page to another. Start typing on page 12 and the text pops out in the connected frame on page 12.
-Sections and frames can both have multi-column layouts, shading, borders, etc.
-Nice built-in writing tools and word art tools (FontWork).
-Very powerful styles. Huge. Including page styles which you can use like master pages.
-Master files, cross-referencing within and between documents in master files
-Lots of page setup stuff like backgrounds, borders, any page size you want
You might want to just consider using Draw as a brochure layout tool. The text boxes are pretty limited but if it's a mostly graphical brochure rather than based on text flow, the grid and other aspects of Draw might be better for some brochures, postcards, etc.
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