Re: Linux in Wired (fwd)
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote:
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> ---------- 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.
Installed Applix the other night. I like it just as much as Office95/97
little slow on my system ... but I will be upgrading it in a couple of
months.
As for file importing and exporting ... Applix Words can bring in almost
everything that word and wordperfect can open/import. It does not like
nor will it open fast save documents though .. comes up with an
incompatable format error.
Exporting is nice too ... rtf and word, html, word perfect (down to
version 3 on both I think) and several other formats. I have been using
the rtf format lately.
On the whole .. I like it a lot better that StarOffice (which decided to
stop working) .. I havn't tried bring a staroffice file into applix yet ..
that will be next test I guess.
Chad
> 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
>
>
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