Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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Have to say I'm an Indesign fan. I absolutely hate MS Word and my experience with OO Writer is limited but as I do a lot of DTP/Print work I do a hell of a lot of layout and design work in InDesign.
Layout first and text secoandary. It is so easy to deal with graphics, pagination, notating and typography. I hope OO becomes more of a tool like this rather than a more Word than Word program. I think if people are introduced to software that treats the page as a canvus instead of a bloody typewriter, then we will have progressed greatly. Time to stop waisting CPU cycles doing things the way machines did them over a century ago. Sure you couldn't insert images in a typed document on the typewriter but why do we need the typewriter paridigm anyway?