Re: [Sheflug] Open Office

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, wulfie wrote:

> I think that's the problem. If it could be cut down into bite-size
> portions, as it was originally, rather than forcing the whole banquet down
> in one go it would make more headway.

And if the interface wasn't crap. (Sorry, I'm being charitable)

> Personally I'd rather see koffice and the Gnome office components
> (Gnumeric & Abiword) receiving developer effort. Once these lightweight
> (relatively speaking) apps get proper M$ filters they will be very useful.

Abiword's import support is better than Wordpad under Windows.
I have several docs that WordPad barfs on and Abiword loads fine,
documents with images also won't render in Wordpad.


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