From: Julien Olivier (julo@altern.org)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 07:02:01 EDT
Hi
I've just tried Abiword 1.99.3 and I have a few questions about it:
- I have tried to open a few DOC files sent to me by my boss and, while
most of them were almost perfectly converted, those containing diagrams
(I guess there is a drawing tool in MS Word) didn't work: the diagrams
didn't appear at all.
- Still related to the former question, is there or will there be a
drawing tool in Abiword ? I mean something to draw basic geometrical
shapes and arrows.
- I tried to insert a clipart and found that you include quite a few
ones in Abiword. But what surprised me was that, among the cliparts,
were a lot of icons. Do you really think it's worth mixing cliparts with
icons ? Who really wants to insert icons in his documents ?
- I think another important feature misses: you can't create a new
document based on a template. For example, when I want to write a
resume, I like to start from a template because it's easier to focus on
the content and not on the form. Something like a collection of wizards
to create basic documents would be great.
- I noticed that there is no function to create a table of contents
automatically. Are there any plans for that in the future ? I think
that's a must-have for any serious word processor. Well, at least I use
it very much :)
- Finally, I've jus read that Koffice is about to switch to
OpenOffice.org's file format by default for KDE4. Don't you think it
would be possible for Abiword too ? I think it's important to have 1
standard file format for all the great open source office applications
so that it's easier to convince commercial office suits o support this
format.
Well, time for the congratulations: Abiword is really a brilliant word
processor. Thanks everybody for working on it and making my life better
:)
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