On 09/04/2008 10:35, Veronica and Lloyd Puriri wrote:
Hi
I've recently started a business offering a documentation service to
organizations. Originally, I thought I would create the document in Word,
and at completion alter it to PDF before giving to the client. I was
looking at getting a PDF writer on my computer.
Open Source was mentioned to me, but I don't quite understand what it is.
Are you able to give me a brief explanation, that a lay-person could
understand?
For a reasonable description of Open Source software in general, have a
look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software
OpenOffice.org (OOo) is a completely free Office Suite that competes
favourably with Microsoft Office (MSO). It has word processing,
spreadsheet, presentation maker, database manager and a few extra
goodies. You can download it from www.openoffice.org where you will also
find lots of documentation. As I said, it really is completely free.
Free to download, free to use, free to give to colleagues, clients,
suppliers, friends, relatives and anyone else. Those people can also use
it free. Support is also free via this group. We are all users of OOo
who volunteer time to help other users. OOo can "export" documents
directly in PDF format so you may find you don't need a PDF printer
(although there are very good free ones and they allow the creation of
PDF files from *any* application that can print). OOo can also read and
write MSO documents, apart from the new "Office 2007" formats.
Try it. Won't cost anything except your time :-)
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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