Hi everyone, I'm new to this list and have been enjoying reading it for the past week or so, everyone seems frighteningly clever so far though! I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good open source equivalent of MS Publisher? I'm trying to persuade an office to move their two windows based PCs to Linux and have covered all the software so far except Publisher. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Steve
Stephen Dickinson
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On 25/10/2007, Stephen Dickinson Finance Assistant Stephen.Dickinson@essexcc.gov.uk wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list and have been enjoying reading it for the past week or so, everyone seems frighteningly clever so far though! I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good open source equivalent of MS Publisher? I'm trying to persuade an office to move their two windows based PCs to Linux and have covered all the software so far except Publisher. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Steve
Steve,
Have you looked at Scribus?
There was a good article in Linux Format #96, where they used it to set out the feature itself.
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=NewArchives&...
Peter.
On Thursday 25 October 2007 10:54:36 Stephen Dickinson Finance Assistant wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list and have been enjoying reading it for the past week or so
Welcome to the list.
I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good open source equivalent of MS Publisher? I'm trying to persuade an office to move their two windows based PCs to Linux and have covered all the software so far except Publisher. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
There are a couple of DTP projects around and also some graphics projects which have DTP-like capabilities.
Scribus http://www.scribus.net/ OO.org draw http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html Xara Xtreme http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
One thing I think you'll find you can't do is easily concert MS Publisher files. AFAIK, none of these programs will import or open them. It may be possible to work around this by creating PDFs or PostScript files from Publisher (maybe with PDFCreator http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator) and then importing them into your chosen Linux alternative.
Cheers, Richard
Hi Steve, I can safely say Scribus is an excellent DTP application. It bears more resemblance to Quark and Indesign which are the industry standards (note: de facto standards from good marketing and not from professional opinion) than MS Publisher, which is a but a nipper in comparison. They all pretty much do the same thing though. Scribus can also create interactive PDF documents
All DTP apps work in their own hideous proprietary file formats. When working between apps I find a mix of EPS and unlocked PDF's a reasonable way to transfer text and graphics. Post on here if you get stuck in scribus (SVG for vector graphics of course).
As a quick start there are two important things to note in professional document design, the first is size, the second is colour! Size comes as is, if you make an A4 document, it will be A4! Colour however is where it gets tricky. Make sure you have your Monitor, and printer ICC colour profiles installed. Within Scribus, select EXTRAS from the toolbar, then Colour Wheel. From here there are three fantastic modes here for selecting a complementary colour scheme; Complementary, Split Complementary, and Tetradic. Always useful when working with existing or new company colour schemes.
Cheers Rich
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