My final post

Hi guys, this is my last posting here. I'll try to make this one as
clear as I can by putting all the comments in separate points. But
first, a word of explanation: My first post on this mailing list may
indeed sound puerile, but I wrote it under the impression of
OpenOffice Writer and it's great possibilities in comparison with
Abiword, which I used to use. The post wasn't intended to be aggressive.

1. "If you really wanted to use AbiWord, our import and export is
quite functional - it would not be impossible to do the majority of
the work in AbiWord then export to RTF, the de-facto standard for WP
document interchange, which OpenOffice.org should be able to read."
- Ryan Pavlik

You must admit that's not a very comfortable way, and makes Abiword
dependent on the other word processors. I'm sure everyone would
rather like to do all the writing, formatting and printing in one
single application, and then successfully export the file as, say,
PDF. This is a great advantage of OOo Writer over Abiword.

2. There's one bug in Abiword HTML export I can recall right now. No
matter there are one or two consecutive line breaks in the original
document, Abiword HTML export makes it two (or at least that's how
it looks). I've noticed more bugs but can't remember now, so you
will have to play with it yourselves.

3. Did you try to put a table into the header? In Abiword it doesn't
seem to work right (the program leaves one empty line under the
table). I needed this to make page counter aligned to the
left/right, and chapter name to the center, cause this is probably
the best way to do it.

4. Abiword runs very slow on larger documents. Also, it's not quite
truth that it runs very fast on older machines (I know the example
of Pentium 500 - the whole page blinks during the writing).

5. It's not that i don't appreciate your work, guys. I'm sure you're
all willing to constantly improve the program. But let's face it,
the improvement goes way too slow and Abiword is left far behind by
other word processors.

Best regards.

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Received on Sun Nov 6 19:18:37 2005