Re: Re: Re: OpenOffice.org

Hi,

(I've lost my mail, so I'll just put Alan's words in quotes as I
can't reply directly)

"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."

And what about Win32 version? :) I guess I can't expect all those
printing features I mentioned in my last post, to be added to
Abiword anytime soon. And I need them. This leaves me no choice but
to use OOo Writer, though I liked Abiword for it's user-friendly
interface and it's speed. On the other hand, even on my home machine
OpenOffice (2.0) loads up to 15 seconds and runs at reasonable
speed, so it's not as bad as many say. It's also 100% stable as far.

"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."

I can't tell right now, cause I don't have Abiword installed on my
machine. But try to export some formatted document to HTML and check
closely how it looks.

As a conclusion, I must say I'm rather not going back to Abiword,
for a number of reasons:
- virtually no printing options on win32 version,
- poor export/import in general,
- still not good enough compatibility with MS Word,
- not suitable for bigger documents (don't make me tell why, I
assume that you know),
- lack of other utilities (excluding Gnumeric) making up an office
suite.

P.S. You don't have to believe me, but less than a year ago, Abiword
had some problems with reading it's own *.abw files properly, and
I'm not quite sure if this has been improved yet. I mean, for
example: It would change the font size in specific places of the
document.

Best regards and good luck!

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Received on Sat Nov 5 02:26:21 2005