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Word processing under the GNU General Public License

Only the brave take on MS Word under Windows. Sun had a crack at it with their impressive Star Office suite and Corel battle on with their long-running commercial offering, WordPerfect but now it looks like they're not alone. AbiWord is fully-ish featured WP created by a group of sleepless volunteers and released under the GNU General Public License. A Linux version has been around for a while but now you can play with it on your Windows box. More...

SVG versus Flash

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) remains a perennial favorite with standards bodies and conferences around the world but unlike Flash it's not for sale. With the Flash plug-in boasting some 90% browser penetration compared with just 10% for the SVG plug-in, can the W3C prevail? More...

The Death of Proofreading

"If you were working 20 years ago, you'd be editing on paper. After you finished, a typesetter would retype the entire manuscript (including your changes) by hand and run out typeset galleys. Then you'd assign a proofreader to check the typesetter's work against your edited manuscript. But today, after being edited in Microsoft Word, the manuscript will *not* be retyped. In fact, it will *become* the typeset galleys. So what's the point of proofreading the galleys against the edited manuscript?" begins new Planet Publish contributor Jack M. Lyon. Editor and author, and Microsoft Word expert, Jack looks at how the move to electronically edited manuscripts has solved some of the old proofing problems but also means other issues need to be looked out for. More...

Demystifying the W3C Recommendation Track

The W3C was created to "lead the Web to its full potential" by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure interoperability. The W3C "recommendation track" is the process that the W3C follows to build consensus around a Web technology, both within the W3C and in the Web community as a whole. Planet Publish explains how this process works... More...

Content vs. Presentation

In this issue, our Wordsmith confronts the cross-media publisher's dilemma: when is it OK to use presentation tweaks such as thin spaces and when should we stick to good ol' ASCII? We also look at styles, including the use of styles in conjunction with Word's Document Map feature. More...

Ventura 10 on its way

Corel Corporation has announced the availability of Ventura 10. Version 10 of the long-time layout application boasts greater XML support, native PDF creation and a host of enhanced graphics capabilities. The new release is intended to regain market share for what was once the king of "desktop publishing" applications and push Corel to the front of XML authoring. More...