On 07/01/2015 09:15 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 15:15 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 7/1/2015 2:52 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
I use it every month this way to produce a newsletter using MS Word and Adobe Acrobat.
Seriously, I can't imagine a single valid reason for firing up a virtual machine to use either Word or Acrobat.
Install LibreOffice, import one old newsletter and do the newsletters with LO. It will even render the letter to PDF for you. You can even save them in Word format if you are convinced you can never drag yourself away from Word.
Hi John, thanks for posting your comments.
I do have LO installed, and have tried to use it to produce the newsletter in the past. I haven't found it to be very useful for my purposes, so I have had to use the other programs as I described.
It isn't a matter of tearing myself away from Word. I actually would prefer that LO would be more useful to me so I could produce the newsletter in Linux and not have to use Windows and the virtual machine.
I thank you again for posting and trying to point me to an equivalent Linux program for the Windows programs that I have been using.
Mark
You might want to have a look at SoftMakerOffice, which includes TextMaker, a word processor. Altho there is (was?) a free version for Linux, it was reported to be fairly limited. I have been using the paid version of the software, which is discounted for home use. (Don't know if your newletter is for a business purpose or for something that would qualify for the discount.) There is supposed to be a new Linux version coming out shortly, I don't know just when. The present Linux version is 2012. (The new version is already available for Windows.) I suspect that your problem with LO is the strait-jacket that their "styles" routine enforces on you. You should not see anything like that in TextMaker. I went to TextMaker when I could not put up with the eccentricity of LO/OO. I don't do anything sexy with it, so I can't say whether you will like it or not. I have no personal interest in the German company that makes SoftMakerOffice. I will say that they do answer questions submitted to them about use of the products, altho it may take a week or two. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org