On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:09:16AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:29:01 +0000 > Phillip Deackes <gsmh@runbox.com> wrote: > > > Why is it taking so long to get decent GUI wordprocessing in Linux? > > StarOffice is OK, but version 5 was/is a joke the way it enforces the > > riduculous SO desktop on users. We do need something similar to MS Office, > > Lotus SmartSuite, whatever. > > I find Abiword fairly decent. I've been using it for all of my > semi-professional writing needs for over a year now. Your definition of > decent may vary, of course. > > Glad you mentioned it!! I use AbiWord as well as OpenOffice... OpenOffice is nice too if you need plenty of nice features... As far as I am concerned, OpenOffice is my favorite for communications with those poor Word users... As a matter of fact I was writing all of my resumes with OpenOffice, converted docs to Word format and attached the with my job applications when I was looking for work... We've had decent and professional WordProcessing packages for Linux for some time now... :-) All the best, Davor
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