On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 13:24 -0400, Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
> >
> > Thus spake Sheldon Lee Wen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > >
> > > > > Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and
>Linux).
> > > >
> > > > Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs.
> >
> > *hysterical laughter*
> >
> > So does Microsoft Word... have you ever tried to manage a document
> > that's more than 18 pages in Word? With images and tables of contents?
>
> Ahem, I did. 291 pages, more than 80 images, footnotes, toc and
> index, all with Word97. Wrote it in separate docs and finally
> put the whole thing together. Took me 2 working days to manually
> correct pagebreaks, footnotes, image-descriptions, Pagenumbers
> in toc, etc.
>
> Trying to make a point that you *can* do a large doc in Word!
> Also you could do large documents in stones some 4000 yrs ago!
> Just a matter of time and manpower.
>
> wobo
> --
My hats off to you for that wobo. I hate doing stuff like that.
Personally I use Klyx for docs I want to print or keep for personal use.
Abiword to import word docs (the ones that mswordview won't convert)
StarOffice for Excel stuff (mainly because I can't get gnumeric to import them
for some reason)
and a whole pile of swearing when someone sends me power point stuff (I'm
fortunate in respect that I don't get a whole lot of those at home)
My main problem with Staroffice is the time it takes to startup and the number
of processes it runs...If I'm reading a document, I DONT want to fire up a
drawing program and a spreadsheet package at the same time.
Havn't tried applix, but I remember a review a while back (before the new beta
came out) that it's import filters for formulas needed some more definitions.
I'm really waiting for a stable Koffice to pop up (which is going to mean a
KDE2 upgrate but thats life)
Andrew
