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Monday, October 28th 2002, 11:19am

OpenOffice still better.

OppenOffice still better.

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Monday, October 28th 2002, 11:23am

Hi,
OO has more functions than KOffice for exampe, but I always have problems with stability and TrueType Fonts.

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Monday, October 28th 2002, 2:45pm

my main problems with oo are, that it needs much more ressources than koffice.

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Monday, October 28th 2002, 5:32pm

KOffice and OpenOffice

OpenOffice has at the moment more functions!

KOffice is smaller but for easy documents is KOffice better and quicker

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Monday, October 28th 2002, 7:29pm

Indeed Oo is much slower and if you only need to write/edit a small doc you'd better use KOffice

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Monday, October 28th 2002, 9:15pm

KOffice and OpenOffice

KOffice is easy and for easy office
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OpenOffice is for bigger office!

I think KOffice will be bigger in the next versions! KOffice is quicker because it uses KDE components! On a quick system OpenOffice works quick to!

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Tuesday, October 29th 2002, 12:35am

I only use OpenOffice for accessing and saving in MS formats. Otherwise, I use KOffice because OpenOffice has a tendency to crash, and it's not fast on my slow system.
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Monday, February 24th 2003, 4:31am

.DOC format in KWord?

Why can't KWord write .doc? That's what's preventing KWord from becoming mainstream at this point. It can read .doc, but can only write to several useless formats. I really like the idea of the XML-based format, but it's a little heavy on the filesize. Does anyone know if KOffice 1.3 will write .doc?

I am a KDE advocate, but Abiword will look really slick when they finish the GTK2 port. Check this out: http://www.gnome.org/~aldug/gnome2/screenshots/abiword2.png

KWord should look this smooth.

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Tuesday, February 25th 2003, 7:43am

Re: .DOC format in KWord?

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I am a KDE advocate, but Abiword will look really slick when they finish the GTK2 port. Check this out: http://www.gnome.org/~aldug/gnome2/screenshots/abiword2.png

I always thought abiword is better than kword. I read it several times in some articels. But about one year ago I made some little tests by myself, and found out that kword is way better than abiword.
Abiword is hyped, but its .doc-import is worse than kword's. It's featurelist is shorter than kword's,...
There were/are only two benefits. Abiword was more stable (before koffice 1.2), and abiword is platform independant.
I don't know when the next abiword with GTK2 support will be released, but koffice 1.3 will be here in summer. And I know that there will be some nice improvements (http://developer.kde.org/development-ver…lease-plan.html).

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Tuesday, February 25th 2003, 7:52am

Re: .DOC format in KWord?

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I don't know when the next abiword with GTK2 support will be released,


I read it will be released in May - and it will feature tables for the first time! ;-)

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Wednesday, February 26th 2003, 12:43am

I think David Faure is going to start working on the MS formats in a new library called wc3 (or something liked that) very soon.

I have had terrible experiences with OOo but still I use it most of the time, mainly because I spend alot of time transfering essays between Win2k machines on a school network and my home machines. Not long ago I had a whole essay typed (the most recent) on a floppy disk which was mounted as expected, reading it in OOo, went to print and OOo crashed. I thourght, ok, I'll just open it and start again. No such luck! OOo had removed the file from my freakin' floppy disk and I lost the entire essay. I was so mad.. hehe.

I really like the of a type of standard for Office formats and maybe if KOffice and OOo sharded a XML-based format it could spring a the needed standard to other vendors. Who knows?

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Wednesday, February 26th 2003, 8:56am

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I really like the of a type of standard for Office formats and maybe if KOffice and OOo sharded a XML-based format it could spring a the needed standard to other vendors. Who knows?


I second that!

But as I undrstand it is not as easy said and done. The file format is very much interlinked with what features you have in your program.
Or am I wrong?
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Friday, February 28th 2003, 12:57am

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I only use OpenOffice for accessing and saving in MS formats. Otherwise, I use KOffice because OpenOffice has a tendency to crash, and it's not fast on my slow system.


Same here.. When I create documents for myself, I use KWord (or LaTeX). If I need to open some Word doc that some lameo sent me, I gotta use OO for now.

Kudos to The KOffice Team (and all KDE developers)!

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Friday, February 28th 2003, 4:49pm

koffice comes

I think KOffice comes and isn't still ready for a complete Office. See us soon ;)

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Saturday, March 1st 2003, 12:48am

Even OO has big problems reading and writing complex Word docs with templates and macros without "mutilating" them. At least, that's my real-world experience. But it's free, and it's very nice!

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Sunday, March 2nd 2003, 9:10pm

Here is the current problem with koffice. If I want something quick and not-so-resource-intensive... abiword is the best option. If I want the most functionality... OO is the best option.

The time and place where Koffice will become the most useful is when it integrates itself fully with KDE. Abiword and OO cannot compete there. Think about it... unified group-based document storage/retrevial somewhere along the lines of kontact for koffice! Full integration with konqurer (i.e. konq sees koffice documents as databases and allows full search/query of all koffice documents) and kmail/koffice integratation. THAT would be killer functionality for koffice. That would be a reason to use koffice over OO or abiword.
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Monday, March 3rd 2003, 7:13am

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Here is the current problem with koffice. If I want something quick and not-so-resource-intensive... abiword is the best option. If I want the most functionality... OO is the best option.
abiword.

What are the benefits of abiword over kword? I didn't find one.
In my opinion, KWord is as fast as abiword, and als it's functionality (and more). It's way better integrated into KDE than abiword is.
So why should I use abiword instead of KWord?

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Monday, March 3rd 2003, 6:21pm

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What are the benefits of abiword over kword? I didn't find one.
In my opinion, KWord is as fast as abiword, and als it's functionality (and more). It's way better integrated into KDE than abiword is.
So why should I use abiword instead of KWord?

ciao


I find abiword noticeable faster, Redhat 8. Anything more complex than spell checking and making some quick document notes I use OpenOffice for. Maybe its just me (or maybe I need to check out Koffice again.)

apt-get install koffice...
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Wednesday, March 5th 2003, 2:04pm

I personally use OO because there are to many donuts out there that send me M$ version documents and requires me to send then M$ format, Unfortunately Koffice do not support M$ format otherwise I would be using Koffice as it is robust, stable, quick and I like the layout of it!
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 12:05pm

OOo for me

I really like KWord. It looks nicer than OOo, loads faster and works better. Most of the time. The only problem is that on my machine KWord keeps crashing whereas OOo is solid as a rock. (And as heavy as one too). And KWord won't save in MS Word format and doesn't open them very well.

So unfortunately, as I have to work on other people's MS documents, I'm stuck with OOo at the moment, because I have no viable alterative.