MS Publisher replacements?

[Tom Emerson]

Dennis, I know so very little about MS Publisher, however, I'll wager that 
I could do anything it does in MS Word (well, maybe not me personally, I'm 
a word processing klutz).  I have seen fairly recent ASU business grads 
produce documents that amazed me, they were quite compentent with MS Word, 
utilizing features that a common hack like myself wouldn't know what to do 
with, even if I could find the feature in the menu tree.

My question, is MS Publisher mostly a 'hand-holder'?  This wouldn't 
suprise me.  My current opinion on MS Word, you need a college degree to 
compentently operate it.  (not so different from AutoCAD ... anybody can 
whip out a simple drawing, but only well trained people can draw space 
shuttles).

  - tom e.

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Dennis Kibbe wrote:

On Sunday 14 July 2002 08:25 am, you wrote:
> Mappoint as well.  I haven't been able to find any replacement for Linux.
>
> Tom Emerson wrote:
> >APLUG could use a collection of pages & links to software and
> >recommendations on the web site.
> >
> >Another app, Microsoft Publisher, available on the Microsoft Office
> >Professional CD and is also available stand-alone.  (A desktop publishing
> >app).
> >
> >We were this -> <-  close to rolling out OpenOffice.org for a client, they
> >said no when they realized an MS Publisher equivelant was not part of
> >OpenOffice.org.  Egg on our faces, we didn't have an answer at that
> >moment.
> >
> >Any good desktop publishing packages out there?

Actually, I'd bet that OO will do a lot of what M$ Publisher will do, it just 
won't hold your hand while you do it. You will need to learn some basics 
about laying out a document.

I may have to eat my words though, in the next month I'll be moving some 
price flyers and ads from WordPro and PageMaker to OO. If there are no font 
issues and I can create a good PDF to go to print, I'll be a happy camper.

- Dennis Kibbe
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