Tom wrote: > I think LaTeX is far more sophisticated for proper professional > printing. My guess would be that commercial publishing houses convert > from Writer or Word into LaTeX (or something) and then perhaps reapply > formatting.
I doubt that. Most professional printing and publishing nowadays is done from PDFs supplied by the publisher to the printer. > Even so-called Desktop Publishing tools such as Publisher tend to > mangle things quite badly. The quality of documents created with > Writer is far far higher but it's still unlikely to compete with > proper DTP tools such as LaTeX. But kerning is a function of the font, not of the application. The kerning in Libre Office is fine, provided the appropriate kerning is built in to the fonts you use. I have used Libre Office (with various fonts) in professional publishing. The texts are printed to PDF, the PDFS are sent to the printers, and the results are perfect. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
