very good interoperability with MS Office [was Re: fonts]

From: Alan Horkan (horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 19:04:55 EST

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    On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Lionel Laratte wrote:

    > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:33:43 +0100
    > From: Lionel Laratte <myth47_at_comcast.net>
    > To: AbiWord User <abiword-user_at_abisource.com>
    > Subject: Re: fonts
    >
    > Looks good but I'm afraid I'm on Linux and it won't work for me. Also,
    > I'm thinking of using OpenOffice since I need very good interoperability
    > with MS Office. Thanks, though.

    I'd be interested to know what features in particular you feel Abiword is
    missing or are essential to your task. Abiword does have very good
    interoperability with Microsoft Word only problem is that it doesn't yet
    have all the features needed to display everthing exactly as in Microsoft
    Word ;). Perhaps you'd consider voting on some of the feature requests in
    Bugzilla that interest you?

    I'd also recommend you give the unstable Abiword 2.1.x series a try, I
    mean cmon you wouldn't be using Debian if you wanted things to be easy!*
    If you get caught by any documents that OpenOffice cannot open, there are
    still a few documents that Abiword can open that OpenOffice doesn't (and
    equally some they can open that Abiword misses).

    Thanks for trying abiword.
    Don't forget to come back and check out Abiword 2.2

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

    * I'm referring to Debian proper, easy to use Debian based distribution
    don't count. Debian is a fine technical distribution with the strongest
    free software credentials but lets face it, it definately isn't the
    easiest.
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