In a message dated: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:34:35 EDT
Jonathan Arnold said:
>> Which reminds me: I just got a significant doc in Word format, and
>> when I printed it on my wife's W98 machine, parts came out garbled
>> and funny looking. I've heard a rumor that there was a Word that ran
>
>You might try looking at StarOffice. It's a free Office-like suite from
>Sun, that runs on Windows & Linux. The latest beta version (5.2) has some
>pretty solid filters for reading and writing MSoft files. Check it out at:
I've found 5.2 beta to be significantly slower than 5.1. Though they've
upgraded the filters somewhat, they still seem to mangle a significant amount
of Word docs (relatively simple ones at that).
For those who are just plain cheap, and have the patience/willingness to
ignore the cosmetics/aestheticss of the format mangling in SO, it's a great
choice. For those who insist on importing a doc correctly, I recommend
Applixware 5.0. It's been vastly improved since 4.4.2, works with all the gtk
libraries, and the filters work much better than even in their 5.0 beta
release.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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