Is out there a free software ?

@Hliasvl (142)
Slovak Republic
May 26, 2011 10:10am CST
Hi there friends. I try to find a free software with witch I can write a book with text and photos. I know that there are to many programs that can do this job (office world - for example) but I need something special like "book-creator" from the early days of Commodore home computers (for those that they remember )or something like "yWriter" in our days.
3 responses
@smacksman (6053)
26 May 11
Open Office has a powerful word processor that will do a fair job of book writing. It is a huge download but is also on the cover discs of many popular computing magazines. A very powerful suite of programs and totally free.
@Hliasvl (142)
• Slovak Republic
27 May 11
Thank you for your answer. Yes I know and I use "open Office" but I need something special. Something like "office publisher" but not a Microsoft program... :)
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
1 Jul 11
I never write a serious book but my friend use Latex for writing books. you probably have to invest an extra time to write using latex but they said it was very powerfull
27 May 11
As already mentioned, Open Office is the best freebie around. However, it looks like you want some kind of book-publishing tool. You don't actually need one. Most of the online self-publishing sites (lulu, etc.) will accept PDF files, so you can just create them in Word (or the OO equivalent), and convert them with a doc-to-PDF converter. Some just want raw text which is then auto-formatted at their end. If you want the A5 book layout, it's easy enough to do by just redefining page size and layout - either as A5 with a gutter margin (more professional) or as A4 landscape with two columns (easier). I've never seen a free app that's specifically designed for book layout publishing, to be honest, since most modern word processors are publishing tools as well.
@Hliasvl (142)
• Slovak Republic
28 May 11
Thanx for your answer. I think is the best answer I get so far... I was put this question in more forums not only in MyLot :) Simble and quick !! By the way, there are some free programs to do this job - I was already write above about one of them - but is so uncomfortable to work with this that YES is better to work with "Word". Thanx again.
@makatas (1098)
• Greece
6 Jun 11
I am sorry, I do not know of any software like those you mentioned. But you could always write the book in WORD then convert to PDF through Acrobat. PDF is widely known and accepted, you see. Have a nice day!