Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > Hi list, > > One my customers publishes books. We are plannign to migrate to openoffice > and > eventually to Linux desktops. > Writing, editing and layout are all done in Microsoft Word. At the moment a > pretty complex template is used to make sure the layout is maintained. > We have already established that it is impossible to build a template with > the > same functionality for Openoffice. This is not a really big problem because > the template is not 100% user friendly, but an alternative solution is needed > before we can migrate to openoffice. > > And yes I know it is possible to use Microsoft Office in a Linux environment, > but then we need a licence for crossover office and we will in time have to > spend a lot of money for an office upgrade. > So it would be nice if this can be avoided. > > The person in charge of publishing has already worked with Scribus (more > information in the previous post) and she likes it. Scribus is however too > complicated for the writers, translaters and editors. > finishing a book in openoffice and the simply import it into Scribus is not a > solution because of the workflow. Writing, editing and layouting are not > done "one after the other" but can occur at the same time. > > We are looking for a way to connect the data between the Writer document and > the Scribus document, or maybe a script or program that is able to translate > the Openoffice document to Scribus in combination with a simple writer > template? An extra complexity is that a lot of translaters work from home, > they may not be willing to use a Openoffice, lthough it is my personal > opionion that that is not a really great sacrifice because it's free. Someone > > has told me that it is possible to install a small plugin for MS Office, with > this plugin it is possible to read documents in the open document format and > also use Openoffice templates. That may be an interesting alternative. > if you look here: http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/Working_With_Text#ODT_Import_Example you should see that using Writer should be a far better choice than Word, since you can import styles from Writer, whereas with Word, even with antiword installed, you only get plain text.
Greg
