Quoting Richard Burkhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've tried a LITTLE of open office (mostly on Dick Ely's machine when > I'm over there) ... it seems to work ok for translation of basic word > documents. Haven't tried it with the documents I have to do at work > -- heavy-formatting/table of contents & figures & tables fields, > footnotes, etc.
There are ways to optimise performance: You can enable TrueType byte-hinting to benefit certain early typefaces such as Arial (the Helvetica knock-off) that use Apple-patented hinting algorithms -- if you're paying patent royalties to Apple. You can configure the program to use MySQL or PostgreSQL for the database features. You can retrofit typefaces from some source that has a good set of licensed ones, e.g., any copy of SO 5.2 you might still have. Please see, in http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/ : openoffice.org-fonts openoffice.org-mysql.pdf openoffice.org-postgresql (etc.) When you consider that Microsoft Corporation's MS-Word/MS-Excel document formats (and probably others) are essentially just the applications' RAM state written out to disk, and given tricks like embedded OLE calls, it's a wonder that their own applications can parse them -- and, indeed, often they have problems. -- Cheers, I once successfully declined a departmental retreat, Rick Moen saying that on that day I planned instead to advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alan J. Rosenthal, in the Monastery _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
