On Aug 7, 2011, at 6:59 AM, a.l.e wrote:
> hi > > >>> Interestingly, Scribus has more features than MS Word, which is why >>> I'm using it. For the type of documents I create, WYSIWYG is >>> critical, so I rarely use Story Editor except for tasks which are >>> feasible, practical, or possible directly in the frame. >> >> I'm a big fan of Scribus, but really, does it have more features than >> MS Word?? >> >> I can list dozens of features that MS Word has but Scribus lacks. >> Automatic foot notes, indices and tables of contens (based on styles), >> relative positioning of objects, automatically calculated >> fields/references, you can get word to automatically use styles in i >> defined order (like you start with Heading, the next paragraph >> automatically becomes Subheading and the next Body_first and the >> folloing ones become Body) are some examples. > > when i want to have more control on the placement on the page i use excel. > the grid it shows is very helpful. Last time I tried, it was not possible to fit text to a path in MS Office. (Nothing in Word Art did this.) Image placement is also awkward in Word, as it's more a word processor app than a page layout app. I also had issues with the PDF export, but I now can't recall precisely what they were.
