Writer excels at Newsletter

[Tom_Davies]

Hi

WoooHooo. My boss (always very pro-MS) has been looking for 'a proper DTP
program' to do the company newsletter. He has been looking for quite a while.
Definitely something 'better' than Word. Various very expensive options have
been explored.

I got thrown into doing the newsletter today with no chance to prepare, no
experience, nothing. My boss was very impressed with Writer and seems to think
it is a 'proper DTP' :)) He even wants to install it =)) :-bd Writer
just has so much finesse for positioning pictures and formatting text around
them in different ways. Writer is elegant :)))

Thanks all for all the hints&tips and hard work
Many regards from
Tom

[Steve_Edmonds]

Hi.
The other overlooked application well suited to newsletters or "flyers" is Draw. Depending upon style, length and visual layout it can produce some great results. I also understand there is also no equivalent in office (may be short of a 1 page ppt).

steve

[jeanweber]

Tom,
On my list of writing projects (the ones I want to do) is a guide to
producing newsletters using LibreOffice. If you can send me (offlist) an
example of your company's newsletter, I would be delighted to offer some
specific suggestions. Working with you on this will probably give me
lots of topics to write about.

Also, is there a Word template for the newsletter? Sometimes converting
a Word template into an OpenDocument template makes a good starting
point, though for things with complex layouts the conversion may cause
more trouble than it's worth.

--Jean

[Gary_Schnabl]

Neither (any flavor of) OpenOffice nor MS Word is technically a DTP. They are instead very fancy word processors and work admirably well for copyediting tasks and such. But neither of them performs the elaborate typesetting and other document layout tasks that a true DTP application can perform, but they work fine for most but the most demanding functions that DTP apps excel.

Because DTP apps can be a bit pricey, an organization can easily work with Word/OOo for most authoring and copyediting tasks and employ a true DTP app afterward in case very high-quality typesetting and such are required. A DTP can import DOC files and, perhaps, even ODT files, and convert them for subsequent processing.

Gary

[Tom_Davies]

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From: Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl@SWDetroit.com>
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 23:36:29
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer excels at Newsletter

On 6/15/2011 5:45 PM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi

WoooHooo. My boss (always very pro-MS) has been looking for 'a proper DTP
program' to do the company newsletter. He has been looking for quite a while.
Definitely something 'better' than Word. Various very expensive options have
been explored.

I got thrown into doing the newsletter today with no chance to prepare, no
experience, nothing. My boss was very impressed with Writer and seems to

think

it is a 'proper DTP' :)) He even wants to install it =)) :-bd Writer
just has so much finesse for positioning pictures and formatting text around
them in different ways. Writer is elegant :)))

Thanks all for all the hints&tips and hard work
Many regards from
Tom

Neither (any flavor of) OpenOffice nor MS Word is technically a DTP. They are
instead very fancy word processors and work admirably well for copyediting tasks
and such. But neither of them performs the elaborate typesetting and other
document layout tasks that a true DTP application can perform, but they work
fine for most but the most demanding functions that DTP apps excel.

Because DTP apps can be a bit pricey, an organization can easily work with
Word/OOo for most authoring and copyediting tasks and employ a true DTP app
afterward in case very high-quality typesetting and such are required. A DTP can
import DOC files and, perhaps, even ODT files, and convert them for subsequent
processing.

Gary

Hi
That was exactly my point. LibreOffice Writer had just achieved a level of
finesse that i wouldn't normally have expected from a normal word-processor. It
has possibly saved the company i work for a considerable amount of money at a
time when funding has been cut and colleagues are being forced to find work
elsewhere. It's not a true DTP but it does enough that my boss mistakenly
thinks it is one (despite me constantly trying to remind him it isn't!) Lol!
Fantastic result!
Regards from
Tom