13 Mar
2011
13 Mar
'11
4:52 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
I like the concept of koffice, but it has never been
usable in the 2.0.x
version. My entire business is built around word-processing from a document
standpoint, and the only viable packages have been Office on the Win side
and OO on the Linux side. Koffice was a great concept, but I don't think it
has ever quite "made it" from a usability standpoint. WP for Linux was
around several years ago, but I think that was completely abandoned.
I say -- stick with what works (thus Trinity :)
<snip>
You do realize that OOo is available for Windows and Mac too? It's not
just a Linux thing :-)
MS Office didn't support OpenDocument Format until it's 2007 version,
and I doubt it does it well -- Microsoft wants to create their own
open format in answer to ODF. They are basically XML files inside a
Zip file, just get a .docx file from someone using Office 2007 and run
unzip on the file. It will extract into a directory tree with some XML
files that contain the document and it's meta-data. From what I hear,
the XML files aren't very well formed.
I say stick with a real document format that will actually be
supported by people outside the world of Proprietary Software, and by
some who do make Proprietary Software. ODF FTW! ;-)
--
Kris
"Piki"
Ark Linux Webmaster
Trinity Desktop Environment Packager