On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes, professionals simply have to use microsoft, because oo lack some > important features: > saving only changes, not the whole document everytime again (10 MB .doc > can be save within 1 s, in oo definitely not) > faster special symbol handling > faster starting
I am a professional in the UK using Writer and Draw for commercial purpose. I doubt the speed of saving, although nice to have, is critical in the same sense that collobrative tools are. Critical features are things that really make a significant difference and I can't see having to wait a few seconds extra on opening and saving documents will fall into that category unless you have documents of thousands of pages and I would be a little worried about the reliability of MS Word with documents that long (probably better to break them up into smaller more manageable files in any case). I'm currently working on an 82 page document in Writer for a professional purpose and I just saved my latest update in under 3 seconds - hardly time to pause to think. The fact that I can directly export it to PDF more than outweighs any inconvenience there. The fact that the format is open is another thing to trade off against speed and to me any professional tying up their work in a proprietary undocumented format is taking an unnecessary risk. Since Writer has been running for several days now with this document open, I haven't noticed any problems with load speeds. If I do shut the entire machine down, getting to the Ubuntu Linux desktop and Opening Writer and the document is significantly faster than starting up Windows on the other machine on my desk that has a faster processor. I should think the variations in log in speeds to networks make the speed of opening writer documents relatively insignificant when you look at the whole thing in context and when you have the software up and running it really doesn't matter. So yes improve speed and improve collaborative tools but if it comes as a trade off between current speed and open standards I'll stick with open standards, thanks. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
