----- Original Message ----- From: "Kai Ponte" <kai@perfectreign.com> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] Publisher Alternatives Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:23:09 -0700 (PDT)

Just for fun, I gave myself five minutes to see if I could create a OOo document with two colums, which were "linked" like in Publisher. In other words, when I type or resize one, the words "spill" over into the other frame.

Sure enough, I did it in six minutes.

On a blank page, I clicked on Insert > Frame. I then resized my frame appropriately. I then added a whole bunch of text. I then added a picture as a second "column" to the page.

I then added a second frame and under the Options tab of the frame's properties, I saw a "Previous Link" and "Next Link" I then linked the two frames and then resized the first. When I made the first frame smaller, the text auto-migrated over to the second frame.

I'd now say OOo does 80% of what publisher did.

I only need to see if it will do Word Art and cool borders.

Not to throw water on the fire... You can do a lot in a word processor such as 00o to create newsletter like documents and picture management. One editor who did my user group newsletter used WordPerfect and claimed that one reason she did was that the graphics quality she could get in WordPerfect was much better than in Publisher. However, managing her document when it came back to adding and rearranging things was not friendly, box tags would be on page, the contents would be on another, proof changes were H... Very inefficient. Scribus is available, coming of age, and I really would like to see how it holds up again PageMaker as a DTP and it would be really neat if I could move over my PM65 documents to Scribus. Clint -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org