From: Martin Sevior (msevior@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 10:17:56 EDT
HI David,
I think you have a pretty reasonable set of requirements for a
professional writer. I think/hope that the feature set we'll provide for
abiword 2.0 will get us a foot in the door for users in your catagory.
AbiWord 1.0.* does what it does quite well but it is clear it's feature
set is not rich enough for many, many people.
On 20 Oct 2002, David Chart wrote:
> Just thought I'd provide a bit of positive feedback.
>
> I'm using AbiWord as my primary word processer, and since I'm a
> professional writer that means I'm using it to earn my living. It's a
> superb piece of software, so thank you, and keep up the good work.
>
> There you go, easily quotable praise. Feel free to do so, as well. I'm
> actually using CVS HEAD, and keeping all my files in a local CVS
> repository just in case, and the automatic assert on opening a document
> is irritating. I thought Martin was going to remove that?
Sorry. Will do.
>
> Anyway, there are three things stopping me using Abi exclusively:
>
> 1) Printing doesn't work at all on my Linux box. That's not your fault,
> though. For some reason CUPS crashes the system hard when it starts up.
>
> 2) I need revision tracking to work, and to be exported to RTF. I use
> this in the editing part of my job, and at the moment I'm stuck with
> using Word for it.
>
I don't know when we'll get to this. There are still a lot of table bugs
and footnote/endnotes fixes to be finished before I'll personally get onto
these.
Maybe Tomas or Dom or someone else could get onto these before then.
> 3) Handling of RTF from non-standard applications is still a bit
> intolerant. I'm sure the RTF produced by Quark XPress is utterly
> horrible, but Abi refuses to open it. Since I get sent RTF from lots of
> different apps, I need something that will open everything.
>
Could you please open bugs in bugzilla and attach offending documents?
I've found that we can get most docs to import reasonablally well with a
only a few minor tweaks.
> 3.5) Tables aren't quite good enough, but they're really close, so I'm
> sure this will be fixed very soon. (Thanks Martin!)
>
Can you be a bit more specfic on what you need or is the current state of
bugs in tables (which I'm working through) just too bad to make them worth
while?
> I've been very busy with work the last week, which is why the changelog
> is way behind. Sorry. As long as I get warning before 1.1.2/1.0.4, I'll
> make sure it is up to date before the releases.
Thanks very much for your feedback David. I really appreciate it.
I will personally be able to use AbiWord in many more circumstances
myself once we get tables from MS Word imported to the same level as our
current RTF importer.
Cheers
Martin
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