TED] Behalf Of Rob Beard
Sent: 14 June 2007 21:09
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Searching for a Killer App
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just
got a new laptop with Vista and Off
OTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard
Sent: 14 June 2007 21:09
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Searching for a Killer App
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just
got a new laptop with Vista and Offi
Robin Menneer wrote:
> As a newbie. I think that OOo will do all your relations want because
> Draw is so well integrated with Writer. But you'll have to explain the
> mysteries of how the curser changes for what you want to do - it's not
> obvioius and took me many days to fathom it out comp
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:08:33 +0100, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hope this helps anyway.
Sounds like a good idea to me...
Thanks,
M.
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Robin Menneer wrote:
> . I don't think you need scribus at an elemenetary level - it holds
> out no attractions for me above Writer/Draw in OOo. Robin
Well you can keep your options open with this set of software.
Do it in Writer/Draw and if you need more DTP import into Scribus.
Scribus import
On 14/06/07, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just
got a new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely
unintuitive!) however there is one issue.
>
> The
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just got
> a new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely
> unintuitive!) however there is one issue.
>
> They use Microsoft Publisher.
>
> Whilst there
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Alan,
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:10:15 +, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0100, Matthew
>> Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>>> They use Microsoft Publisher.
>
>> Use or Used? Could they use Scribus un
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:56 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just got
> a new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely
> unintuitive!) however there is one issue.
>
> They use Micr
It seems Publisher is well known for this
From 'http://blogs.msdn.com/jeff_bell/archive/2006/08/14/700473.aspx'
"If you have a recent copy of Publisher - Publisher 2002/XP, Publisher
2003 or Publisher 2007 - you should be able to open all Microsoft
Publisher files that come your way. If you coll
Hi
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Only if they can edit the PDFs afterwards.
PDF really isn't geared up to that kind of thing. You can make
modifications, but it is a pain and is usually pretty limited.
Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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www.canonical.com
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement,
> I am unable to find a program that will load and save MS Pub files.
> Can anyone help?
Will MS Pub run under Wine? (Just a thought - I don't know the answer!)
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Diana
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On 14/06/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement, I am
> unable to find a program that will load and save MS Pub files.
>
A google search came up with
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=3
Alan,
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:10:15 +, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> They use Microsoft Publisher.
> Use or Used? Could they use Scribus under Linux?
They could use scribus but they won't
Hi Matthew,
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> They use Microsoft Publisher.
>
Use or Used? Could they use Scribus under Linux?
> Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement, I am
unable to find a program that will load and sav
Hi all,
I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just got a
new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely
unintuitive!) however there is one issue.
They use Microsoft Publisher.
Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replac
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