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

Hi

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 18:30 +0000, 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> jonathon
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I can see the requirement for using specific formats. Do publishers
really care what program was actually used to create it? I would assume
they would not care as long as they get something in the appropriate
format. The problem is publishers have standardized on two proprietary
formats not on an open document format. My guess is their other software
properly handle DOC and PDF correctly but not ODT. 

I have to sometimes submit MS Word format to people and what I do is
save the document as both DOC and ODT. I use ODT as the primary and save
to DOC when I need to submit it. A few people actually know I am not
using Word but LO because they know my primary OS is Linux and they have
never reported a problem.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com



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