Re: why ABIWORD?
On 30 Jun 2012, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. Should my experience be representative, it would be better not to propose text editors that are unable to do what they should. I'm happy to keep both. I find Abiword able to display some Word documents which LibreOffice cannot, and vice versa. I'd have to be fairly desperate to actually create a Word document with either, or even edit one. [snip] I've published six e-books on Smashwords and this requirees submitting them as Word.doc files. I did this successfully with oowriter/libreoffice; I wouldn't say it was enjoyable but it was possible. In fact, I've now published an e-book (Making Word.doc Files in Linux) which explains how I managed it. Several of these books were originally Lyx files and I converted these to rtf for Libreoffice. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120702075818.ga2...@acampbell.org.uk
why ABIWORD?
Hello: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. Should my experience be representative, it would be better not to propose text editors that are unable to do what they should. Cheers francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caev0nms-me1ffg1vs0ynj_28ic2zgqcynuc32kgvqyxwfmq...@mail.gmail.com
Re: why ABIWORD?
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. When that happens, run it from command line (oowriter) and watch for the output. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. This can happen even from documents generated by LibreOffice and then opened with OpenOffice, MS Word or even with a different version of LibreOffice :-/ Should my experience be representative, it would be better not to propose text editors that are unable to do what they should. It would depend on the document complexity (tables, layers, used objects...) but you can always report it so developers can find a fix for it. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jsmhtt$djv$6...@dough.gmane.org
Re: why ABIWORD?
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. Should my experience be representative, it would be better not to propose text editors that are unable to do what they should. I'm happy to keep both. I find Abiword able to display some Word documents which LibreOffice cannot, and vice versa. I'd have to be fairly desperate to actually create a Word document with either, or even edit one. Don't forget, Word itself is extremely poor at maintaining document formatting across versions or even with a different printer selected. Word has never been a DTP application, despite large numbers of people thinking that it is. It is a document processor, designed to maintain the flow and order of large volumes of text with embedded tables and graphics, without much attention to layout. I'd use it to write a book, but not a CV. If someone demands a Word document, I would normally send an RTF file, which is somewhat more predictable and will open in any Word, and even then I'd use quite large margins. I do actually have a full Office 2007 on Windows 7, but there has to be money involved before I'll use it. I hate Word more than possibly any other piece of MS software, except perhaps Edlin (which is still part of Windows 7). -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120630105857.33a1e...@jretrading.com
Re: why ABIWORD?
On 06/30/2012 05:58 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietrachiendar...@gmail.com wrote: /snip/ If someone demands a Word document, I would normally send an RTF file, which is somewhat more predictable and will open in any Word, and even then I'd use quite large margins. I do actually have a full Office 2007 on Windows 7, but there has to be money involved before I'll use it. I hate Word more than possibly any other piece of MS software, except perhaps Edlin (which is still part of Windows 7). A friend used to send me files saved in .rtf from a MacIntosh, and a good fraction of those gave me fits, no matter what I tried to open them with. The problem was that the entire body of text would overflow the right-hand side of the page, losing some of it. Sometimes it would not open correctly in OO or LO, but open OK in WordPerfect, sometimes not. Since I have all three OO-type programs--OO, LO, and Symphony on the Linux machine, and WP on the Windows machine, most of the time I could open the file, but there were a few times not at all. Now I have him send the files in MS .doc for Mac, probably a version from the early 2000s, since he doesn't have the latest Intel Mac, and Symphony will open these without a problem. (Probably the other two OO-types would also.) I save files that I have edited in .doc format from Symphony, and his Mac reads them fine. I gave up on AbiWord. It wouldn't open those files either, and it has some other problems that I couldn't live with--I forget what. Symphony is not in my repos, but is downloadable in various formats for Linux and, I think, Windows. It has some gotchas also, but it mostly looks and acts finished which LO and OO do not. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fef6bda.2010...@optonline.net
Re: why ABIWORD?
I use both, for different reasons and don't intermix them. For print off office literature, Abiword is great and LibreOffice has its strengths. Then again, for other things, LyX is good. All good things come in time. Regards, Weaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/fadb7f711013756019a235f95c3f07c6.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net
