From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 19:04:55 EST
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Lionel Laratte wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:33:43 +0100
> From: Lionel Laratte <myth47_at_comcast.net>
> To: AbiWord User <abiword-user_at_abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: fonts
>
> Looks good but I'm afraid I'm on Linux and it won't work for me. Also,
> I'm thinking of using OpenOffice since I need very good interoperability
> with MS Office. Thanks, though.
I'd be interested to know what features in particular you feel Abiword is
missing or are essential to your task. Abiword does have very good
interoperability with Microsoft Word only problem is that it doesn't yet
have all the features needed to display everthing exactly as in Microsoft
Word ;). Perhaps you'd consider voting on some of the feature requests in
Bugzilla that interest you?
I'd also recommend you give the unstable Abiword 2.1.x series a try, I
mean cmon you wouldn't be using Debian if you wanted things to be easy!*
If you get caught by any documents that OpenOffice cannot open, there are
still a few documents that Abiword can open that OpenOffice doesn't (and
equally some they can open that Abiword misses).
Thanks for trying abiword.
Don't forget to come back and check out Abiword 2.2
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
* I'm referring to Debian proper, easy to use Debian based distribution
don't count. Debian is a fine technical distribution with the strongest
free software credentials but lets face it, it definately isn't the
easiest.
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