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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While improving the DTP features in OOo is useful, remember the target market is the average user. Since the average user currently uses MS Office, OOo must maintain its focus on that market. DTP programs need to support complex PDF workflows and state-of-art color management systems that aren't required in Office suites.
Note the upcoming version 2.0 of OOo (due to be fully released end of 1Q2005) will have a much improved GUI as well as a user-friendly database (complete with Form Design Wizards etc).
On the DTP side, check out Scribus. A good article over here
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/09/02/scribus.html
The Scribus team are also working to allow users to drop OpenOffice files directly into Scribus.
Overall, thanks for the article. It was a good encouragement for me to invest the time to learn how to make better use of OOo's Formatting features.
And by the way, you mentioned a Debian Sarge review / suggest to check out Gnoppix http://www.gnoppix.org/ that provides a GUI installation for a Gnome-based Debian Sarge install.