I think it is the knowledge issue at core with most publishers (most small time operators in your neighbourhood). I have been insisting with my people to atleast obtain a PDF file of the document going to press. For most of these press people, "What is PDF??". Problem is most of them are using pirated Adobe Pagemaker software. I think PM5 does not have export to PDF by default, while PM6.5 has an option, but probably exports the whole file. Adobe is trying to replace Postscript with PDF, they are talking of "PDF ready" printers. As of now, it is a knowledge issue with most small time operators.
A technical issue which I have faced is generating PDF with Unicode aware applications having Unicode data in the output: For eg an OfficeXP Word file to generate a PDF with embedding of OpenType Fonts. I do not know of such an issue with OpenOffice. I am using OO1.1RC3, which at least is not able to input a Unicode Devanagari data, nor able to display a MSWord file / UTF-8 encoded Devanagari text file. Finally, whether OO will be able to it or not, the issue is typesetting and word-processing are two different things. Most of us, the common user, use word processing. The OO documents need to get into some DTP program, like Scribus, Karbon14 (Am I right LL, Trehan??). Karbon14 can save the document as Adobe Illustrator type, from where can it go to a Pagemaker ?? Anand Shankar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandip Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 11:53 AM Subject: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
