| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 7 May 2003 17:09:04 -0400 |
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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:56:27PM -0400, Nicholas Vettese wrote: > I have seen it mess up many times. If you have any type of charts in an > Excel spreadsheet, OOo will not be able to figure them out. I do > spreadsheets all the time with charts and graphs, and they never come out > right. Hey, all I said was "Works for me!". Works for quotes sent in Word or Excel format from vendors, works for documentation sent in both formats from cow-orkers, works through .mailcap for files on the Exchange server retrieved via IMAP (nyah, nyah!) or on Windows shares retreived through smbclient (I don't bother with smbmount, but that'd work just fine too) and tossed off to it. Never had a problem. So I don't do anything very complex in MS Office applications? Quite possibly. But it's plenty good enough that I have only a NetBSD workstation in a company where everyone else (present company excepted, Chris) at least has a Windows workstation in addition to their Linux workstation, and now that I'm using IMAP, I don't even need to use Metaframe (the Linux client works just fine under NetBSD's Linux syscall emulation, and can be found at pkgsrc/net/citrix_ica) for Outlook. I'm NOT trying to co-exist in an office environment. I'm touching MS file formats exactly as frequently as I absolutely have to as a Unix sysadmin. But my complaints against OpenOffice.org are that it takes an inordinately long time to start (as in, way longer than `xterm`!) and seems to want to spin on the processor all the time, even if it's not doing anything (though it leaves hold of it if anything else wants it). No complaints about functionality. Point is, it's worth giving it a chance. It's probably not going to be any worse than using WordPerfect on a Windows box or (say) Nisus Writer on a Mac. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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