Re: Linux in Wired (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:45:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Fredrik Ax <frax@axis.com>
To: Peter S Galbraith <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
Subject: Re: Linux in Wired
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> Fredik Ax wrote:
>
> > I disagree! The office suits for Linux (e.g. StarOffice and
> > Applixware) are starting to get really good. I can't really see any
> > need to run this kind of applications on a windoze system.
>
> Can they import and create Word documents?
> That's *my* problem. The rest of the Department expects me to provide
> Word documents. If I could do that in Linux using StarOffice
> or Applixware, I'd never need Windows.
Since (for some creepy reason) our company's documentation standard is
M$ Word, I myself have similair problem.
At the moment I'm using swriter3 (Word Processor included in StarOffice
3.1) which reads Word 6 documents perfectly. It even gets all
"self-updating" fields like filename and pagenumber etc right. I'm sorry
to say so (and I can't understand why) but creating word documents isn't
swriter3's strong side. Lot of information get lost (like justification of
text etc) when exporting as a word document, but it's at least
readable by M$ Word. I have heard that Applixware version 4.2 should be
able to export M$ Word documents somewhat better than StarOffice, but I
haven't tried it myself yet.
Don't give in to them ... keep using a real OS!
Fredrik Ax
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: