Ian Lynch wrote:
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
may i also suggest trying to save the document in odf (odt) ?
first, if you are working on a particular document, it really is better
to do so in native format. second, that would decrease file size and
might improve speed. then, you would have to use .doc only when
exporting (though check that your recipient really can not recieve odf ;) ).
second, if the document is really large, maybe you can use master
document. there is a pretty decent documentation about this feature, and
i have heard that this feature actually works in oo.org, unlike in msword ;)
btw, what's wrong with special symbols ? (unfortunately i missed the
original mail)
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
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Rich
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