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| Thread ID: 116646 | 2011-03-13 22:12:00 | Anyone used Scribus? | tuiruru (12277) | Press F1 |
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| 1185917 | 2011-03-13 22:12:00 | Just a general enquiry. It's something I've been thinking of looking at for a while but don't want to bother if there is a steep learning curve or other probs with it (lazy me? :horrified) Thankks |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1185918 | 2011-03-14 02:16:00 | I've played around with it briefly and it seems to have most of the features you'd want in a publisher application. I installed the version (1.3.3.13.svn) from the repository in Ubuntu 10.04, but it's a rather old version there (December 2008). It can't import MS Office Publisher files unfortunately. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1185919 | 2011-03-14 02:53:00 | It can't import MS Office Publisher files unfortunately. :horrified :groan: |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1185920 | 2011-03-14 03:16:00 | Many other publisher software wont import or open MS .pub files. What you can try, is the person who has Publisher save the file as .pdf, then import that into the other publisher program - trouble is, the fonts and sometimes the formatting doesn't "stick" -- Better off buying publisher if you are going to use it a lot and save the trouble. Thats the problem with some other office programs, as good as they are simply dont work with some MS products. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1185921 | 2011-03-14 03:28:00 | Thats the problem with some other office programs, as good as they are simply dont work with some MS products. One could easily look at that the other way around. MS's refusal to support open document standards is going to bite them. People are waking up to the forced upgrade rort (.docx etc). Cross platform and cross application document portability should be a prime consideration when considering any new software. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1185922 | 2011-03-14 03:42:00 | Quote: Originally Posted by Rod J It can't import MS Office Publisher files unfortunately. :horrified :groan: Yeah - I was being ironic there. The reason I was looking at Scribus was as an alternative to M$. But I can see Wainui's point - for some people, that would be a pain in the proverbila (oh - I like that typo - it was supposed to be "proverbial" - "Proverbila" sounds more forceful don't you think? :) |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1185923 | 2011-03-14 04:10:00 | One could easily look at that the other way around. MS's refusal to support open document standards is going to bite them. People are waking up to the forced upgrade rort (.docx etc). Cross platform and cross application document portability should be a prime consideration when considering any new software. Microsoft Office has been around for years. forced upgrade rort (.docx etc) BS -- not forced at all, you have the option to save in older formats, or if you want to read the .X files, simply install the Free Converters. Many other Office products are still playing catchup. While in general business's don't like going with some of the free open source, since it simply wont work with current files/ documents, and when sending to others they have to have the program as well etc. To be honest I have tried many different Office programs, and in the end gone back to MS simply because its far better supported. MANY of the other publisher programs are not cross compatible with other programs, so its not just MS. If you used Page plus (a very good Publisher program) or the free version - Serif Page Plus, nothing will open that apart from PagePlus. Simply put, if you dont like using publisher from MS - use something else, its your choice - just dont complain when no one else can open your work. Classic example - If I were to send you a ???.aww file, bet you couldn't open it without installing the program ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1185924 | 2011-03-14 04:27:00 | Microsoft Office has been around for years. While MS office has been around for years, publisher hasn't. Nothing is compatible with it. As for office, yes its up too everyone else to adopt the office standard |
plod (107) | ||
| 1185925 | 2011-03-14 04:42:00 | While MS office has been around for years, publisher hasn't. Nothing is compatible with it. As for office, yes its up too everyone else to adopt the office standard Publisher 1 came out around 1991 92 as I remember it. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1185926 | 2011-03-14 05:01:00 | Publisher 1 came out around 1991 92 as I remember it. That's right according to this (en.wikipedia.org) Snork (scroll down). It was up against something else on the market at the time - can you remember what it was? |
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