FC4 slimfast slimfest

Richard June rjune at bravegnuworld.com
Tue Feb 22 16:33:55 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 22 February 2005 10:21, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:59 -0500, Richard June wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 February 2005 08:38, Paul A. Houle wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:09:25 +0100, Matthias Saou
> > >
> > >        So far as I'm concerned,  all the "office" packages can go. 
> > > I've found that 90% compatibility with MS Office isn't enough to work
> > > with the groups I work with and just wind up running the real thing
> > > under crossover.
> >
> > I would disagree with you here. for the groups I work with 90% is great,
> > not only that, some have wound up moving to OO.o on windows as well.
>
> For 2.0 a bunch of work went into the Word & Excel filters, so
> compatibility there is much greater than just 90%.  A lot also depends
> on the fonts you have, even on Windows with Office if you don't have the
> same fonts as the document requires, Office has to do some guessing same
> as OOo does.
I went through the trouble of installing a number of fonts for my users. so 
fonts aren't much of an issue.
I am looking forward to OO.o 2.0 though
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