[Gllug] Office software

[Jake Jellinek]

I'm playing around with the latest version of OpenOffice and it seems 
pretty good to me. Doesn't need java as far as I can see like Star Office 
did, and doesn't have the annoying "everything enclosed in a take over your 
desktop window" anymore. Under Mandrake 8.1 (not that I've tried with other 
distributions yet) I was easily able to import loads of TTF fonts which 
print out well also, and I've imported quite complex word2000 documents and 
spreadsheets with no apparent loss of formatting, even when printed (CUPS).

I'm desperately trying to convert everyone in our organisation fully over 
to Linux on the desktop, but admin / finance people (not to mention some of 
the designers) are hard people to convert. It'll happen though, I shall 
enforce the complete company-wide change when I feel it's not too cruel :)

Jake.


--On Thursday, November 15, 2001 18:53:44 +0100 Xander D Harkness 
<xander at harkness.co.uk> wrote:

> On the understanding that Star Office will not run on my laptop I am
> looking for an alternative.
>
> As I see it they are as follows:
>
> gnumeric, abiword = both great but lack graphs and tables respectively
>
> koffice = no word export and kpresenter does not offer full import
> support for ppt files
>
> Hancom office (www.hancom.com) = looks good, much better in KDE than
> gnome, a bit unstable (final beta).  Would not use 1.5 as it still
> relies upon wine and I have never seen anything reliable yet under wine
>
> Applixware (now anywhere www.applixware.com ) = used to be very clunky,
> their site has no demo.
>
> Does anyone recommend applixware?  Or do I have to wait another few
> months for one of the other three to improve?
>
> Cheers
> Xander
>
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