[wplug] Book published using Open Source software

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On 8/17/07, Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > at the printer's and Corel Draw not reading Inkscape .svg's
> > correctly for ads,
>
> What version of Corel Draw?  Understand early SVG implementations
> were not exacting, but most, newer versions work correctly.



I don't know.  The issue was with text being HUGE instead of scaling with
the image.

> so this may be what's needed.
>
> The great thing about standardizing on OpenOffice.org (even if you
> have to run it under Darwin/X11) and Scribus (nice and native Qt on
> Mac ;) is that they are _fully_compatible_ across platforms.
> Microsoft and many other solutions have serious data alignment and
> endianness issues -- especially cross-architecture.


We have Microsoft Office installed, but I usually use NeoOffice for
everything.  NeoOffice is OpenOffice for Aqua, so no X11 needed (though I
use X11 for the Gimp and Inkscape and find it a PITA since you can't hide
one or the other, just "all of X11" and extra clicks to use the
programs..once to activate window, once to use tool).  I think I see what
you were talking about DTP's and layout and how OOo handles it better than
Word in that having a caption on an image in Writer means it makes a frame
for the image and has the text in there.  Having an image with the caption
under it and being able to move them together all around the doc?  Not
possible in Word from what I can tell.

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