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From: Ian Lynch on 20 Jan 2007 09:19
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:08 +0000, Julia Chantrell wrote:
> Are there any plans to include a publisher in Open Office? It does
> everything else / opens everything that MS Office does, but not
> publisher.

That is because even MS Word can't open Publisher files! The time and
effort to reverse engineer Publisher files is enormous. Besides serious
DTP users don't use Publisher, they are far more likely to use Quark.
Apart from pre-defined Wizards there is not much I could think of that
you would use Publisher for that you could not do in Writer and Draw.
These days, the need for separate applications for page layout and
document production is a lot less and likely to lessen still over time.
Getting Draw fully SVG compliant would be a much better use of
resources.

Ian
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Hi, Julia,

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eventually lead to better desktop publishing capabilities.

Best regards,
-Lars
Lars Nood=E9n (larsnooden(a)openoffice.org)
Ensure access to your data now and in the future
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/about_us/contribute

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Julia Chantrell wrote:

> Are there any plans to include a publisher in Open Office? It does everyt=
hing else / opens everything that MS Office does, but not publisher.
> J Chantrell

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From: "Alexandro Colorado" on 20 Jan 2007 20:58
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:08:50 -0600, Julia Chantrell
<julia.chantrell(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Are there any plans to include a publisher in Open Office? It does
> everything else / opens everything that MS Office does, but not
> publisher.
> J Chantrell

You can use draw to do whatever u need.


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From: Jonathon on 20 Jan 2007 21:51
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Alexandro Colorado wrote:

> You can use draw to do whatever u need.

Creating 10 point upside down text using Draw is not a straight forward
process.

xan

jonathon



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From: "Miles Lane" on 20 Jan 2007 23:12
I just tried Printmaster 16 for the first time. A friend of mine is a
very enthusiastic user of this program. Anyone else here tried this
program?

Personally, what I am really interested in seeing is complete support
for MS Word's WordArt. I find I am unable to edit WordArt with
Writer.

Miles

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