Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 63355
MS Publisher-style desktop publishing
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:20:54 UTC
A Desktop Publishing tool to compete with MS Publisher. This really doesn't exist yet. My company has all of its marketing stuff done in MS Publisher, and we may not be the only co that does this.. Nothing here at OO.Org seems to accept our .pub files, and as I am charged with the interesting task of migrating our network to Linux, I have to find a way to map all our current apps to Linux apps. Publisher is simple and template-driven (from the end-user's POV). It might be a basic use for Impress, and the big deal is a conversion script from .pub so the existing files can be used in Impress. The converter script could work both ways, but from my desk, the important thing is being able to import. Once the file is in Impress or DeskPub (if it is impossible to put the thing into impress for some reason) then it can stay in that format. We will not go back to Publisher after we are an all-linux shop. I guess what I am offering here is that I am volunteering to start this project. Seems to me the needs are: 1) publisher to OpenOffice conversion script 2) templates for various things from biz cards to 11/17 newsletters Most all the other publisher features already exist in OOffice I do not know where to put this issue, and need advice on that as well.
I don't know where this type of issue belongs exactly either, but you can ask on the dev@openoffice.org mailing list (http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general) for redirection.
Reassigned.
Draw would problably be a better tool to map MS Publisher files to. However, to correctly map the text boxes that use text linking, Issue 33501 would have to be added. It would also require the ability to print multiple pages on one sheet of paper, for labels, etc. Some pages would need to be printed rotated, which is needed for those publisher files that are created as greeting cards, where some of the pages are rotated and all pages are printed out of order. This would take a lot of work in the printing area.
33501 does seem like a required addition. The rotate to print and multiple copy printing commands could be saved with the template so each use of the template included that automatically. MSPub often loses that information, causing a bad print (pre-perforated card stock is not forgiving of misplaced copy) but it can be adjusted in the printing specs. If this were added to Draw, would the scheduling and such be more straightforward? I really like the distortions available in Draw.. That would be far more fun than just placing graphics and text pub-style
*** Issue 63354 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Duplicate to issue 29232. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 29232 ***
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