Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:40:45 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 02/13/07 06:17, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> >> Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people
> >> don't care how ugly their printed documents look.
> > I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits,
> > and government who'd contest this.
>
> I said "most". There are always exceptions.
>
> > Not to mention those in the advertising and marketing arena.
>
> They are publishers.
>
> > Larger organizations typically have fairly detailed standards for
> > what documents have to look like, along with design departments,
> > document templates, and so forth.
>
> And Word and OOo have templates.
>
Which is where a person who know what s/he is doing makes word/OOo behave like
latex ;-)
And they still have a tendency to mess things up (you set up a style for
something that word decides to mess up the whole document).
> > Smaller organizations - at least smart ones - spend a lot of time
> > on making documents look good, because image and presentation
> > make a big difference.
>
> DTP. It's what made the Mac.
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