Norman Dunbar wrote, on 20/Mar/13 10:45 | Mar20:
Morning Tony,
On 20/03/13 08:26, Tony Firshman wrote:
Am I missing something here?
Probably not.
Any software under any system, be it Windows, Linux or Mac, can print to
pdf.
True these days. However, would you want to set up a magazine in Notepad
for example?
When I did my tests a while back, I used a number of different systems
to generate a PDF - Libre Office (or Open Office as it was then) which
is simple enough, but has Image problems. (Getting the damned things to
sit correctly and sorting out the flow! Amongst others.)
Scribus was the best utility I used. It has a decent enough interface
and work flow for something as simple as QL Today format, it is best
probably because it is a Desktop Publishing system.
Templates are useful - and both Libre Office and Scribus can use these.
I think Word can also?
No no no - I mean no no no to using Word to design the document (8-)#
I inherited the design of a magazine originally in Word. I struggled
for a year or so. I then converted to M$ Publisher, and halved the
compilation time. It was also a far better resulting publication.
The problem with a lot of "print to pdf" utilities is size. QStripper,
for example, outputs a Quill doc in pdf format. When I first introduced
it, it printed bitmap pages - which are huge. I soon sorted that to
print proper non-bitmap pages. The resulting files are far smaller.
Scribus, by it's very nature does the latter. And the quality settings
can be adjusted to give smaller but poorer quality files or larger high
quality ones.
Just my £0.02.
He he not notepad.
I am very familiar with Microsoft Publisher, and the PDFs I produce from
that are pixel perfect. One can adjust the resultant pdf size easily.
It was just that if anyone was to take on the task, then it would be far
far better if they used a design package they were familiar with.
Tony
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