Re: Re: OpenOffice.org

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 sxxx@o2.pl wrote:

> > if you had something postive and constructive to say we would mind

First off thanks for making the effort to make a considered and well
thought out reply.

> Unfortunately my English is not good enough for that yet as I am not a
> native speaker.

Your English certainly better than my Polish, do the best you can and if
we dont understand we will ask you to try agian.

> But i'm working on it ;)

So am I (my spelling is atrocious) and I'm supposed to be a native speaker
;)

> this is, what Abiword totally lacks. Namely - superb printing
> options of Writer. I mean multiple pages on one sheet, brochure
> printing,

I do not know what version of Abiword you use but soon all the linux
versions will include gnome-print which provides a standard Print dialog
for all kinds of Gnome and Gtk applications. I expect the Gnome print
developers will be willing to gradually add more functionality to their
software as it improves and Abiword will benefit from that.

> printing etc. For example - printing booklets in OOo Writer is a
> piece of cake, and in Abiword it would be a nightmare. That's the
> most important thing for me, personally.

I can see why you like OpenOffice.org Writer better than Abiword but I
hope you do now realise not everyone has printing as such a high priority
and there are certain areas (like speed) where Abiword is excellent.

> probably go back to Abiword though, cause it works faster and I like
> it's interface. Of course there are many more disadvantages of
> Abiword like poor MS Word files export,

In what way is it poor? Are there particular features not being exported
which you miss or are other programs having trouble getting the correct
layout from what Abiword exports. Perhaps others know better but I
thought Abiword was doing pretty well in this area so more information
could be useful.

> and even worse HTML export.

the HTML export produces relatively clean markup which you can
work with later for other purposes. Again I thought abiword was
doing quite well here but perhaps there is something about how the
exported HTML looks which you dont like.

> By the way, what's "export as" button for, if you can as well use
> "save as" for the same purpose? Best regards!

"Save As" will take the current document (doc1) and save it under a new
name (doc2) and then you can continue working on that newly created
document (doc2).

Export as (also known as "Save a Copy") will save a copy of the current
document (doc1) under a new name (doc2) but then drop back and continue
working on the original document (doc1).

Hope that makes sense, it isn't exactly the most straightforward of
features.

Thanks for taking the time to provide us with your feedback

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Inkscape http://inkscape.org
Abiword http://www.abisource.com
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Received on Fri Nov 4 18:54:51 2005