Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-15 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Curly wrote: Adobe keeps getting more onerous to download reader without all the malware/ransomware pups attached to it. Adobe reader for Linux isn't too bad, in that regard. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 I just tried editing a pdf in libre office, and it works! No need for

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-15 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
fmiser sez: OpenOffice was purchased by Oracle. Nothing had changed for a _long_ time, which wasn't much of a surprise looking at Oracle and open source software. So most of the clever people there got fed up with do-nothing and created a fork that is more open/free/libre. This is called

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-15 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
‎Curly wrote: Adobe keeps getting more  onerous to download reader without all the malware/ransomware pups  attached to it. Adobe reader for Linux isn't too bad, in that regard.  Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-15 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
: [MBZ] Libre Office? fmiser sez: OpenOffice was purchased by Oracle.  Nothing had changed for a _long_ time, which wasn't much of a surprise looking at Oracle and open source software.  So most of the clever people there got fed up with do-nothing and created a fork that is more open/free/libre

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-15 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:00:57 -0600 fmiser via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Curly wrote: It is much more robust than open office was when it was left to the backwaters of oracle. That has not been my experience at all - but I have not use the MSWindows port for many, many

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-15 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
fmiser fez: OpenOffice was purchased by Oracle. So most of the clever people there got fed up with do-nothing and created a fork that is more open/free/libre. This is called LibreOffice. So there are two. Which is better? I like the license of LibreOffice better. But there is

[MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-14 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
So, what is it? I did a quick seach and what I read suggested it is sort of an offshoot of Open Office. Is there a difference, and if so what advantages are there? RB ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-14 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Open Office seems dog slow compared to Libre O. I use LO on my macs and it does fine. --R On 1/14/15 5:26 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: So, what is it? I did a quick seach and what I read suggested it is sort of an offshoot of Open Office. Is there a difference, and if so what

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-14 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Open office was owned by sun, and it is a dead end. Some frogs picked up the pieces, and continued on. That is libre office. it is free and up to date and more useful than open office. It is quite nice. try it. libreoffice.org It comes preinstalled on ubuntu. I think the frinchie

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-14 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
I might need to try it again, but the last several times I've tried either open or libre office they trashed my Word docs, and now the Office compatible app on the iPad trashes Excel spreadsheets. I have the current long term support Ubuntu running on an HP tablet PC, but haven't tried working

Re: [MBZ] Libre Office?

2015-01-14 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
Randy wrote: So, what is it? I did a quick seach and what I read suggested it is sort of an offshoot of Open Office. Is there a difference, and if so what advantages are there? OpenOffice was purchased by Oracle. Nothing had changed for a _long_ time, which wasn't much of a surprise