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[PLUG] Re: OpenOffice observations (was: Which distro...)
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gabriel rosenkoetter said:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:24:57AM -0400, MITCHELL MALTENPORT wrote:
>> The make-or-break would be which document types does she need
>> compatibility with? Gnumeric seems to claim better import/export than
>> KSpread, but I haven't used either. (To state tbe obvious, Gnumeric
>> is GNOME, KSpread is KDE). Abiword is an excellent word processor,
>> and I know it has a GNOME interface as well as a GTK one.
>
> But OpenOffice.org should work under either and seamlessly deals
> with every MS file I've had to deal with at work.
>
> I've heard it breaks down on complicated PowerPoint. But I've never seen
> it happen.
I've seen it screw up formating on Word docs very easily. By "screw up", I
mean: changed the bottom margin from 0.5 inches to 3+ inches; changed the
spacing between bulleted/numbered lists, so they were out of alignment.
And this was on a Word doc that I - at least - would not call complicated.
Having a bulleted list is not complicated; multiple styles, TOC and index
entries, embedded OLE objects - that I'd call complicated.
The problems I saw were certainly not insurmountable, but hardly "seamless".
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