Open Office 1.1 seems to load a lot faster than open office 1.0 - I think that was one of the things they worked on. Not sure which of these is in Woody though. I imagine it would be 1.0
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:49:34 +1200, Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I can report that AbiWord is a reasonable small Wordprocessor. It does > > have a few minor issues, but it works satisfactorily. It doesn't like > > big files - I downloaded a 1.56 MB RTF document I had stored on a > > web-site of mine, and it took too long to load. It loads smaller files > > quite quickly, and is the fastest of all the wordprocessors I have tried, > > for small files. > > > > Just thought some of you out there might be interested in knowing this. > > Anyone who needs a small, fast multi-platform wordprocessor without all > > the bells and whistles ... ;) > > AbiWord v1.0.2 comes with Debian Stable (woody). I used it a couple of > times, and quite liked it. To be honest, I haven't really fixed on a > favourite wordprocessor with Linux. I like KWord, I find Open Office takes > too long to load, and AbiWord was nice. I reckon if I loaded up a later > distro I'd get better apps but for now I don't much care. At least I > *have* a choice. > > Good luck with the writing. Follow your muse! > > Andy >
