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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 29, 2007 16:43 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by mbottrell
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Why continue to use MS Office instead of the (IMO better) OpenOffice? The same reason as previous years: import/export issues when you try to share documents with your coworkers, professors, lawyers, and government. :(
As soon as import/export is *solved* (99.99% of files are formatted and print identically), OO.o adoption will see a massive uptick. Until then, even if it only messes up in one file in 100, it will only be used by people who don't need to share files with Office users every day.
(I know Word has massive import issues of its own -- it can't even import 10 year old files without completely garbling them... Doesn't matter, Word is the standard, OO.o needs to be better than Word).
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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 29, 2007 17:12 UTC (Thu) by yipyip (subscriber, #25108) [Link]
OpenOffice better? You've never tried printing off an envelope in OpenOffice, have you?
It's certainly better in some ways, but it's a long way off from being unconditionally better. MS Word may be a turd, but it's a highly polished, mature turd with lots of time saving little convenience features buried in amongst the list formatting retardation etc.
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 29, 2007 17:44 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
Um, yeah, I print envelopes in OpenOffice all the time. I don't find it particularly difficult. See Solveig's article on the subject for a tutorial if you like.
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 30, 2007 3:00 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
OpenOffice, SchmopenOffice! Do it using GROFF macros edited in vim!
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 30, 2007 3:39 UTC (Fri) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]
Your post reminded me of one of the math professors here (at UC Berkeley), who writes all of his papers using his own locally enhanced version of troff (he started using it before Knuth wrote TeX). He is also a vi (not vim!) wizard, and has the most complicated macro system I have ever seen for doing things like using vi as his mail client.
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 30, 2007 8:35 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Uh. That's not `using vi as the editor for his mail client', right?
He's actually doing mailbox parsing, header layout and pipe-to-sendmail *in vi*?
(Ye gods.)
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 30, 2007 20:48 UTC (Fri) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]
It's vi in conjunction with the mail command (remember, it's possible to execute external commands from within vi).
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 31, 2007 14:09 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Bah, I was hoping it would be executing /usr/sbin/sendmail directly ;)
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
Posted Mar 30, 2007 8:25 UTC (Fri) by MortFurd (guest, #9389) [Link]
"OpenOffice better? You've never tried printing off an envelope in OpenOffice, have you? "I don't printer envelopes. I use envelopes with windows and print properly formatted letters that have the address so that it shows through the window.
Easy and neat. OOo does it well, it even has a nice assistant to setup document templates for your letter head paper. MS Office creates the crummiest letter templates available.