Re: [libreoffice-users] Graphics with Libre Draw or Writer

Hi Charles,

charles meyer schrieb am 21-Sep-20 um 21:38:
> My esteemed listmates,
>
> I need to work on graphics on my personal laptop which does not have MS
> Publisher on it. I can't work on graphics online so Office 365 is not an
> option.

What kind of graphics do you work on?

> I thought I might use Libre Draw (sometimes Writer is good like
> changing background colors) as a substitute for MS Publisher but it seems
> to have its own methods/learning curve.

LibreOffice Draw is more like Corel Draw.

> I don't see where you find Starbursts or thought balloons like one can in
> Publisher. Is that possible in Draw?

Draw has a several kind of predefined shapes. Shapes similar to those 
known from MS Office are "custom shapes". You find them grouped in 
sublists in the Drawing toolbar or in the menu Shape > Insert or in the 
"Shapes" pane of the sidebar.

Besides these shapes you can use Bézier curves and path objects, 
primitive rectangles and ellipses, text boxes, connectors, measure lines 
and more complex objects like charts, math equations or tables. You can 
insert media, especially pictures in a lot of formats.

Draw is indeed a very rich tool.

> Has anyone found a comparison chart of how to do a function in MS Publisher
> -vs- how to do that same function in Libre Draw?
>
> I've Googled it and not found any.

I don't know, what is possible in Publisher or Visio. But I guess, Draw 
is more like Visio.

What is not possible in Draw:
Linked text frames, so that content flows from one frame to the other.
Text wrap, so that a shape influence the text in another shape.
For that, you would need to use Writer.

> After the wordprocessor battles were won by MS, MS released a chart for
> former WordPerfect users displaying you how you used to do a function in
> WordPerfect and how you do that same function in Word. Anything like that
> for Draw?

MS Office has no module, which is comparable to Draw. Therefore such 
comparison cannot exist.

> Or maybe there's a free (cheap), easy to learn and use (not GIMP) graphic
> program you've found as a viable substitute for MS Publisher?
>
> Scribus is free but has an equivalent learning curve to GIMP - and if you
> don't use GIMP regularly it's onerous to recall how to do tasks.

All those applications are not "simple" and you have to learn, how to 
use them. You should start with a small project and ask if necessary. If 
there is a concrete problem it is easier to say, whether it is possible 
or not.

Do you have got files made by Publisher? In that case you can try, how 
well the import filter of Draw works for them.

Kind regards
Regina


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