On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, David C. Rankin drankinatty@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 :)
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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! ;-)