XML as a format doesn’t matter because 100 years from now MS-Office still be there, in one way or the other. Flash, just as PDF needs a viewer, most people just want the doc. If you have a PDF printer on windows, PDF-export is not really a USP.
I don’t care about the cause here either. Besides that, the actual PDF’s look like rubbish.
Styles get messed up, pictures get messed up, tables get messed up and I don’t want to export that to PDF either Flash. I don’t want to have to smoke grass to get levelled with the speed of OO.Įxchanging documents between MS-Office people and me works kinda okayish, but not quit. See what I mean ? I don’t care about the cause, I don’t care if it’s not OO fault, I do care about getting work done. It’s sluggish all over, try resizing, moving, minimizing and that sort of stuff. Word starts up in 0.2 seconds (if I could count that). Yes 4 seconds on a machine that can execute 1 billion intructions per second. Openoffice 1.1 is faster but nowhere near as fast as any Office-2000 and up on startup.Ĥ seconds they say. But there is still a ways to go yet to make ooo the truly best office application out there (but it’s getting there!) I love Ooo, it deserves all the attention it can get, afterall, anything that offers real competition to m$ products is great. Something as simple as that is vital for any journalist or professional writer and not having it lost it a lot of marks (there was a macro that did this IIRC, but because of the complexity of templates I always found this hard to get installed – and of course, now it’s damned hard to actually find the macro on the web!!)ĭon’t get me wrong, Ooo has to be like M$ office to compete, but the single most annoying thing about m$ word was that it did things it “thought” you wanted, and didn’t make it easy to find out what was going in the background to correct it – ooo suffers similarly, some of the real neat and clever things it does aren’t always needed by the user, but it’s hard to see what’s really going on (wordperfect got round this brilliantly with their “show codes” option which any WP user will tell you was a godsend so often) This was just a nightmare in v1.x so I’m really hoping it was improved, creating and managing templates just seemed needless complex and obscure.ģ – word count on a selection. Great new, Ooo Is a truly excellent suite but its’ hampered by some really fundamental things:ġ – it look terrible, yeah I can live with it, but it’s not an attractive bit of software – and I know it should just about how it performs, but sadly so many people see a application as useful based on how nice it looks!Ģ – Templates.
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