[SLUG] Desktop publishing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which the format is fairly fixed. Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in the new body text each month. Any recommendation would be appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri =mOlx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing
Hi Heracles, Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable, and it is available for most of the Linux distributions (and other platforms). Have a nice day. Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos | www.aleux.com | MSN: rodolfo.marti...@aleux.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which the format is fairly fixed. Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in the new body text each month. Any recommendation would be appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri =mOlx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing
I can vouch for scribus, its quite good and very actively developed. Dean Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Hi Heracles, Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable, and it is available for most of the Linux distributions (and other platforms). Have a nice day. Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos | www.aleux.com | MSN: rodolfo.marti...@aleux.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which the format is fairly fixed. Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in the new body text each month. Any recommendation would be appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri =mOlx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:58 +1100 Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which the format is fairly fixed. Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. SNIP Scribus has been mentioned already and it is very good and easy to work with. However, from the sound of your publication, I think I would use LyX. You have very few graphics and the rest of it sounds like it would fit easily into the LyX format. I self-published a cookbook that my wife wrote and it had quite a bit of graphics - went like a charm with LyX. You can see some of the pages at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-restless-minestrone/728996# I used Scribus to do the front and back cover. If your newsletter is no more complicated than this, then go with LyX. HTH, Alan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri =mOlx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:58 +1100 Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which the format is fairly fixed. Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. SNIP I should have added a few more notes about LyX. First, you can get a better preview of The Restless Minestrone here: http://books.google.com/books?id=w0hUXHizmaACdq=tyree+restless+minestroneprintsec=frontcoversource=blots=Pe8Cn4xBv6sig=Mhnh1GqzsKDyUa_duZKO3kAupDwhl=enei=FadOS9_3N5SXkQW41cSwCgsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=1ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepageq=f=false (If that doesn't come through, just Google tyree restless minestrone) Second, I used Memoir class to make the book. Lots of the lists/graphics are in boxes which are just LaTeX minipages. Third, I enjoyed the experience with LyX so much that I wrote short (100 pages) book Self-publishing with LyX which is available as a free PDF download from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/self-publishing-with-lyx/1502465 The Self-publishing book is based on an earlier version of LyX, but the details haven't changed much. LyX itself has some of the best open source documentation that I have seen. HTH, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: FW: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 10:37, James Gregory wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:32, Robert Tillsley wrote: Arg, must remember to reply to list... 1 minor addition: Is it likely that openoffice will support saving files as pdfs in future? It won't do it (well, not now, I left my crystal ball at home unfortunately), but you can get pdfs from OOo right now - print to postscript and then use ps2pdf to do the conversion. You can probably make it even niftier with some zany scripts that hook into lpr or something, but I've never had the patience to try. Enter the fairy god mother Yes you can export to PDF the last developers release it actually worked well (first release was 'sub-optimal'). Other cool things are that slides can be exported to SWF (flash) files. Coming soon to a server near you... -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: FW: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
Enter the fairy god mother Yes you can export to PDF the last developers release it actually worked well (first release was 'sub-optimal'). Other cool things are that slides can be exported to SWF (flash) files. Coming soon to a server near you... Ok perhaps I'll have to keep an eye out and update as soon as its ready for my little suse system. Thanks Rob * This mail, including any attached files may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to receive information for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. * -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 10:34, Robert Tillsley wrote: Im using Scribus at the moment, but im having some problems with it. And as far as i know, crossover office doesn't supprt ms publisher (any other emulators do?) Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Hi I'd also be interested if there are any good packages out there. Also wouldn't mind knowing if anyone has gotten Indesign, Quark or Pagemaker working through WINE or similar... Browse the openoffice.org discuss list. There was a discussion on this there. A comment was made that the draw part of OOo is a DTP, I just pass this on without comment though. Might just be bravado. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to Your mail admin cannot spell :-) ^^^ Followups and flame wars to chat... -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: FW: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:32, Robert Tillsley wrote: Arg, must remember to reply to list... 1 minor addition: Is it likely that openoffice will support saving files as pdfs in future? It won't do it (well, not now, I left my crystal ball at home unfortunately), but you can get pdfs from OOo right now - print to postscript and then use ps2pdf to do the conversion. You can probably make it even niftier with some zany scripts that hook into lpr or something, but I've never had the patience to try. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] desktop publishing software
While 'codeweavers' and 'crossover office' is floating around, i was wondering what kind of desktop publishing software is available (in the same vein as MS Publisher). Nothing in the office packages (star, open, k) are what im looking for, adobe charges slightly over a million dollars for their *nix publishers (and afaict it only runs on AIX?!) Others i have seen aer well in excess of 500$au. Im using Scribus at the moment, but im having some problems with it. And as far as i know, crossover office doesn't supprt ms publisher (any other emulators do?) Thanks in advance for any suggestions. .will -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
Im using Scribus at the moment, but im having some problems with it. And as far as i know, crossover office doesn't supprt ms publisher (any other emulators do?) Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Hi I'd also be interested if there are any good packages out there. Also wouldn't mind knowing if anyone has gotten Indesign, Quark or Pagemaker working through WINE or similar... Regards Rob T * This mail, including any attached files may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to receive information for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. * -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
quote who=.will Im using Scribus at the moment, but im having some problems with it. And as far as i know, crossover office doesn't supprt ms publisher (any other emulators do?) Scribus is about all you'll find in the Open Source world that even remotely competes. Commercial Wine products may not list MS Publisher as *supported*, but it may very well run. I use Quark XPress and PageMaker under VMWare fairly regularly. They didn't run so well in Win4Lin (even after fixing up the weird Win4Lin variables to make them run at all). - Jeff -- And, most importantly, we now have modules named 'fontilus' and 'themus' -- the two founders of GROME. - Jonathon Blandford -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
quote who=Robert Tillsley I'd also be interested if there are any good packages out there. Also wouldn't mind knowing if anyone has gotten Indesign, Quark or Pagemaker working through WINE or similar... I tried PageMaker once. Wasn't very happy. ;-) Quark might be doable, depending on the version, as it's almost completely ye-olde-Windows code, but I haven't tried. - Jeff -- The aim of the release process is to finish software, not to develop it... - Havoc Pennington -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: Scribus is about all you'll find in the Open Source world that even remotely competes. Commercial Wine products may not list MS Publisher as *supported*, but it may very well run. sorry, should have clarified, codeweavers site lists it as Known Not to Work. But I'm sure planning to give it a go still. scribus is not too bad, but for some reason can only ever detect one font (arghh!!!) and its a really ugly oen to boot ;) i recently was forced to run rh8 over my preferred openbsd (for reasons which i won't go into), so can anyone enlighten me as to what may cause this lack of font availability? thanks, and thanks for the tips. (i just found IceSculptor on everything linux.. looks ok too for others of you interested. (174$ though)) :/ .will -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:32, .will wrote: While 'codeweavers' and 'crossover office' is floating around, i was wondering what kind of desktop publishing software is available (in the same vein as MS Publisher). Nothing in the office packages (star, open, k) are what im looking for, adobe charges slightly over a million dollars for their *nix publishers (and afaict it only runs on AIX?!) Others i have seen aer well in excess of 500$au. Im using Scribus at the moment, but im having some problems with it. And as far as i know, crossover office doesn't supprt ms publisher (any other emulators do?) Thanks in advance for any suggestions. .will Hi, The following product was mentioned on the SuSE list about a month ago. I have not tried it. According to the web site it is on special this month for US$95. PageStream has just recently been released for Linux. http://www.grasshopperllc.com/ -- Regards, Graham Smith - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] desktop publishing software
Instead of going the pc emulation route, maybe you'd be better off going the Mac emulation route. Get executor, and run some old web publishing program. 'Sposed to be the Mac's strength. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
