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
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I just tried editing a pdf in libre office, and it works! No need
for
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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Open Office seems dog slow compared to Libre O. I use LO on my macs and
it does fine.
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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
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
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
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
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