Re: My final post

>
> Hi guys, this is my last posting here. I'll try to make this one as
> clear as I can by putting all the comments in separate points. But
> first, a word of explanation: My first post on this mailing list may
> indeed sound puerile, but I wrote it under the impression of
> OpenOffice Writer and it's great possibilities in comparison with
> Abiword, which I used to use. The post wasn't intended to be aggressive.
>
> 1. "If you really wanted to use AbiWord, our import and export is
> quite functional - it would not be impossible to do the majority of
> the work in AbiWord then export to RTF, the de-facto standard for WP
> document interchange, which OpenOffice.org should be able to read."
> - Ryan Pavlik
>
> You must admit that's not a very comfortable way, and makes Abiword
> dependent on the other word processors. I'm sure everyone would
> rather like to do all the writing, formatting and printing in one
> single application, and then successfully export the file as, say,
> PDF. This is a great advantage of OOo Writer over Abiword.
>

I really don;t understand. Generally you want your word procesor document
to be openned by other word processors. If you don;t you export to pdf.
Abiword has had this featre for the last 3 years.

> 2. There's one bug in Abiword HTML export I can recall right now. No
> matter there are one or two consecutive line breaks in the original
> document, Abiword HTML export makes it two (or at least that's how
> it looks). I've noticed more bugs but can't remember now, so you
> will have to play with it yourselves.
>

Well translating any word processor documen tto htmlis oing to be lossy.
The semantics are very different. Do you want to your text to fit into the
browser window or do you want to fit approximately the same width? This is
a classic example of the trade offs. OO.o has exactly the same issues as
does MS Word.

> 3. Did you try to put a table into the header? In Abiword it doesn't
> seem to work right (the program leaves one empty line under the
> table). I needed this to make page counter aligned to the
> left/right, and chapter name to the center, cause this is probably
> the best way to do it.
>

As the author of this feature yes. The extra line is needed so you can add
text after the table. MS Word and OO.o does exactly the same thing.

> 4. Abiword runs very slow on larger documents. Also, it's not quite
> truth that it runs very fast on older machines (I know the example
> of Pentium 500 - the whole page blinks during the writing).
>

This can certainly be improved and we have good ideas on how to do this.

> 5. It's not that i don't appreciate your work, guys. I'm sure you're
> all willing to constantly improve the program. But let's face it,
> the improvement goes way too slow and Abiword is left far behind by
> other word processors.
>

I totally disagree with this. OO.o is just catching up to some of the
features we've had for years. we have new features planned that will leap
frog OO.o and MS Word. OO.o and Ms Word have orders of magnitude more more
money directed at them with a far smaller return on effort.

For example, despite all the effort, OO.o-2.0 still starts as slowly as
OO.o-1.1. It's a fundamental problem with their design.

Despite your best attempts to demoralize us and destroy our user base I
can assure you that we will continue to work on the program and
continuously improve our program.

So all in all, GO AWAY and stop your posts here. we have no intention of
stopping, you do not provide any positive feedback only bogus and
demonstrabally wrong "bugs".

Martin

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Received on Mon Nov 7 17:44:08 2005