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Re: [Sheflug] Open Office



Will Newton wrote:
>
> 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.

 I was reading a report from Lucent earlier today about implementing a
UNIX/NT network with most services provided by UNIX, rather than NT
server
(http://www.bell-labs.com/user/tal/papers/ntdesktop/ntdesktop/ntdesktop.html),
and came across a good point:

"Doesn't anyone just print ASCII anymore?"

I mean, what is the crack? Surely not everyone needs little pictures in
every document, and some annoying paper clip/dog/multi-hued square
telling you what *it* thinks you are doing and 50 fonts, in 10
sizes...yadda, yadda, yadda, rant, rant...

 I agree that having distinct packages (OK, some (open standard!)
integration is useful in some instances - just can't think of any :-)
would be easier on the download, easier to manage from a programming
point of view, etc.
 Does anyone really use (or if they do, need to use) all the functions
in Word?

 Yes, I'm ranting again. *Takes deep breath*

 Abiword is only barely reasonable. It needs a big increase in speed
(I'm running 256Mb and 2 PII 400's - and it's sluggish) and improved
compatibilty with M$ Word and no feature bloat.
 If that happens, and it does seem to be improving, then it'll be great.

 All I really need is to master Emacs and use that :-)

 Baz.
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