Onsdag 30 maj 2007 21:47 skrev Ken Jennings:
On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote: [...]
I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would depend upon circumstances. I'm sure your going to have some people scratching their heads asking why they would delete publisher and purchase another program (as opposed to a free download like OpenOffice).
Publisher is probably the worst part of the Microsoft Office suite. It just doesn't work for reasonably serious work or for things Microsoft touts as the target uses of Publisher.
I wrote earlier about the lame web page export from publisher. My wife also designed some postcard mailers for her business using publisher. Don't let those registration marks in the output fool you -- the output from Publisher is completely unusable at every professional bulk printing service we tried. Output to postscript and/or converting that to PDF does not improve Publisher output usability either.
In the end I did her postcards in OpenOffice. The only sticking point was determining exactly the page size to use. Once that was solved the OOo PDF files were good everywhere we tried to print them and the finished results were perfect.
Publisher is unsuitable for anything other than the most simple DTP projects that you will output directly to your own printer.
Please let me add to the above (very true) statement... MS-Publisher is a disaster in a number of ways. One of my very good friends is a virtual expert in MSP. He's done 1000s of hours of work in the programme, only to realize that NO printer will take his files. And they cannot be converted to anything proper without loosing contents and all. So now, when he is so dammed good at the programme, he realizes that all his expertize is lost due to a clear case of vendor lock-in. I said that to him 5 years ago. He didn't listen. The reason for not listening was simple, MSP is so simple to use, that it to the untrained it appears very attractive. Once trapped... My advice; Linux has got Scribus and propably others too, stick to them (or OO) and avoid MSP at all costs. As simple as that. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org