![]() The proverbial light bulb lit up over my noggin: Maybe there is open source desktop publishing software! After all, there is open source software for everything else. For the uninitiated, OpenOffice is open source software that runs on a variety of operating systems including Mac, Windows, and Linux. I have been using OpenOffice for a few years now in lieu of Microsoft Office and I am a very satisfied customer. ![]() One word processor I considered for desktop publishing was Apache OpenOffice. I considered a handful of word processors to handle the job, but I was not too thrilled about trying to desktop publish with a word processor, so that became Plan B. Since time was of the essence, I concentrated on option #4 because options #1, 2 and 3 could be time-consuming, and option #1 actually scared me. Use something else for desktop publishing. Install the previous Mac OS X on an external hard drive and boot my Mac off that external drive.Ĥ. Reinstall the previous Mac OS X on my Mac.Ģ. “Don't panic,” I told myself I figured I had the four options:ġ. But about a month ago, I updated to the current version of Mac OS X and woe is me! I was running the previous version of Mac OS X when I desktop-published the previous issue of PSR without a problem. Googling the problem, I discovered that InDesign does not play nicely with the current version of the operating system I was running (Mac OS X). Finally, I gave up (“I’ll think about it tomorrow”) and went to bed, but tomorrow came and still nothing worked. ![]() I was up way past my bedtime wrestling with the software. ![]() But when I began laying out the newsletter, nothing worked. On Monday night, I had all the articles for PSR edited and ready for layout in my desktop publishing software, Adobe InDesign. In addition to serving as the Contributing Editor of Surfin’, I am editor of PSR and the pre-Dayton issue of that newsletter is due. One duck in that line-up is PSR, the quarterly newsletter of TAPR. I am trying to get my ducks all lined up for my annual trek to the Dayton Hamvention in less than two weeks. This week, Surfin’ rediscovers the wonders of open source software. ![]()
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