Re: [libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout

On 05/13/2011 02:30 PM, toki wrote:
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> On 13/05/2011 08:36, Tom Davies wrote:
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> > Have you considered using Desk Top Publishing  programs such as Scribus?
The trouble with Scribus is you can get the software for free, but it 
costs you to get the documentation for it, or at least it was that way 
the last time I looked.
> How much time have you spent looking at the manuscript requirements that
> publishers and printers have?
>
> For math, and related fields, the standard format is TeX.
>
> For virtually everything else, you are looking at either an MS Word
> Document, or a PDF produced by Adobe.
Well, LibreOffice can certainly save the work in Word .doc or Adobe .pdf 
file formats.

If you need to have it in TeX format, there are Writer2LaTeX extensions 
for OOo/LibrO available.

> FLOSS solutions have a really poor reputation in the publishing world.
> The few outfits that accept them, do so with extreme reluctance.
>
> The real irony is that when FLOSS solutions are correctly used, and can
> be correctly exported to the file format that the printer or publisher
> requires, the results are usually better than when the tool chain
> suggested/required by the printer or publisher is used.
>
> Jean wrote:
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> > for what he wants, LibreOffice can do a fine job.
> The requirements, as described by the OP, are trivial to meet using
> LibO.  However, are the requirements described by the OP identical to
> the specifications laid out by the publisher, or printer?

Well if you are going to deal with a publisher, you ask them what format 
they want the manuscripts in.

If you are talking about printers, you will need to find out what they 
require.

If you are going to use print-on-demand printing services, Lulu.com has 
templates for the different book/page sizes that they print.

It should be very easy to find out what format is needed for the 
publisher or printer service.

LibreOffice should have to difficulties to do them.

Here are templates from Lulu.com   Pocket Book is the size of a normal 
Paperback book.
http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=nav_bks

> jonathon
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