Hi :) Scribus is excellent. It's part of the same eco-system as LibreOffice so it's not a million miles off. Also i vaguely remember people saying that it could work with output from LibreOffice. I'm not sure if you'd need to save in some funny format. Hopefully ODF would be fine.
Personally i've only tried Scribus really briefly and struggled with it. LibreOffice is as far into DeskTop Publishing as i ever really need to go but Scribus really takes it up a few notches so it'd be worth my getting to grips with it. I keep thinking about using it for the company newsletter i have to do every quarter but am usually tooo rushed about then. Each time i kick myself because i am sure it would save me quite a bit of time. Moving it from Word to Writer (and paste-special people's articles as "unformatted text") saved me tons of time. Regards from Tom :) On 14 August 2014 11:35, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > I know it's not part of LO, but Scribus is an excellent choice for this > sort of thing, and its also open source. It is a DTP package, not a > word processor, so you can't just start typing text, but it's not that > hard to get going. Just put text boxes anywhere where you want text, > and type into those. You can do lots of advanced things around exactly > how and where you want stuff to show up. > > > Paul > > > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:49:45 +0100 > Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi :) > > I have a feeling this is probably best done in Draw. I tend to use > > Writer far too much for poster design and sometimes, later in the > > process, realise that Draw would have been better. Sometimes it's > > worth copy&pasting elements onto a fresh Draw document but mostly i > > just stay in Writer. > > > > Writer is fine but Draw has a few extra features. It's just that i > > am not so familiar with Draw and occasionally stumble around a bit. > > For example when placing images i prefer the right-click menu in > > Writer as it's quite a bit different in Draw because of the extra > > options. Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > On 13 August 2014 21:58, Brian Barker <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > At 16:21 13/08/2014 -0400, Pikov Andropov wrote: > > > > > >> I want to create a document of a layout of a bridge table. It > > >> should have the words, "NORTH", "EAST", "SOUTH" and "WEST" on the > > >> four edges, each facing outward. > > >> > > > > > > One way to do this is to use a text box: > > > o Go to View | Toolbars > | Drawing, to display the Drawing toolbar > > > at the foot of the window. > > > o Click the Text icon ("T") and drag a rectangular box in the > > > document. o Enter and style the required text. > > > o Click the text box to select it - so that it shows the coloured > > > border and the eight coloured handles. > > > o Right-click the box and go to Position and Size... | Rotation | > > > Rotation angle | Angle to set the orientation. > > > o Copy and paste the result to form the other necessary boxes. Note > > > that the copies will appear on top of the originals, so you will > > > not see the result of the Paste until you drag them to a new > > > position. > > > > > > I trust this helps. > > > > > > Brian Barker > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
