Re: OpenOffice.org

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Od: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
Do:
Kopia do: Abiword is Awesome <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Data: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 17:49:00 +0000 (GMT)
Temat: Re: OpenOffice.org

>
>
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 sxxx@o2.pl wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:11:31 +0100
> > From: sxxx@o2.pl
> > To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> > Subject: [iso-8859-2] OpenOffice.org
> >
> >
> > Hi, maybe I shouldn't do it,
>
> You seem to realise you shouldn't but yet you do it anyway
> :(
>
> > especially on this mailing list,
>
> if you had something postive and constructive to say we would mind
>
> > but I would like to strongly recommend you OpenOffice Writer
instead of
> > Abiword.
>
> your recommendation might carry more weight if you gave us reasons
we had
> not heard before or were trying to suggest some key feature you
would like
> to see improved or at least tell us something you do like about
Abiword
>

Well, I would really like to list disadvantages of Abiword in
comparison with OpenOffice Writer, so you could get a clue what
ought to be changed in Abiword. Unfortunately my English is not good
enough for that yet as I am not a native speaker. But i'm working on
it ;) Still, I can tell you what I like most about OOo Writer, and
this is, what Abiword totally lacks. Namely - superb printing
options of Writer. I mean multiple pages on one sheet, brochure
printing, only left pages, only right pages, reversed page order
printing etc. For example - printing booklets in OOo Writer is a
piece of cake, and in Abiword it would be a nightmare. That's the
most important thing for me, personally. If this changed I would
probably go back to Abiword though, cause it works faster and I like
it's interface. Of course there are many more disadvantages of
Abiword like poor MS Word files export, and even worse HTML export.
By the way, what's "export as" button for, if you can as well use
"save as" for the same purpose? Best regards!

> > If you already didn't know,
>
> Together most of us have tried just about every word processor you
could
> think of or at least are aware of their existance because
competitors can
> be a useful source of good ideas (and also of ideas better not
copied).
>
> You may not be aware of this but Abiword already includes basic
support
> for OpenOffice files and work is being done to add OpenDocument
support
> thanks to INdT who are being sponsored by Nokia. OpenOffice
Writer does
> not include support for Abiword files (even though they have many paid
> developers and many more people helping out than abiword does).
>
> > you can get it from http://www.openoffice.org. The package is
completely
> > free (open-source), multiplatform, multilingual and
>
> > believe me, it's FAR BETTER than Abiword. Best regards!
>
> Comparing a whole huge office suite bundled with all kinds of bits and
> pieces to a small fast light word processor is not very fair. As
others
> have pointed out there are certain things which Abiword is better
at and
> many reasons why someone might choose to use abiword.
>
> I myself also use OpenOffice for other tasks and OpenOffice 2 is
certainly
> a big improvement but Abiword is my first choice for word processing.
>
> If you want to be helpful perhaps you could suggest one or two
specific
> things you think are important and which might help us to make abiword
> better?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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Received on Thu Nov 3 23:19:46 2005