[ubuntu-in] DTP on Ubuntu

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brijithp, shrinivasan and Zaki
>
> Nope OOO is not good enough - try and make a A5 size multipage booklet
> - its eventually ends up in a hack job - OOO does not offer any tools
> to reorder printing such that it knows what comes after the first page
> -

OpenOffice is quite good enough and we are using OpenOffice is print
an magazine in Telugu (in A5 size). We typeset the document in A5 and
print it in broacher mode to get 2 pages on one side of paper.

Here is a sample pdf for your reference.

http://kottapalli.in/static/pdf/kottapalli_2009_10_book.pdf

> Sure scribus is good to layout stuff etc- but the same problem - try
> getting it to print a a5 page booklet - it does not know how to do
> that.

Even though Scribus is superior in typesetting, it doesn't render
indian fonts well.

Anand