GFS and Fedora

[Erik Hemdal]

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>>> I haven't tried Open Office before... Will it be compatible with, say, Office 2003? I
>>> don't mean that that is so good, but when you do business, many people may send you a
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I use it a lot.  Here are the areas I have trouble with:

PDF format documents:  Many recipients find they do not have the 
flexibility with my documents that they have with "genuine" PDFs when it 
comes to printing n-up pages.    In addition, OO doesn't provide 
"tagged" PDFs that I need to port a document to my PDA. 

OO Impress:  Impress documents don't hold their format from version to 
version.  After a version upgrade of OO, I find I have to adjust 
typefaces, sizes and other layout items in order to make slides display 
in a readable way (this is a big problem for me).  Handling of 
PowerPoint animations is also sometimes troublesome, but I don't have 
enough examples and time to sort this out specifically.  Opening 
exported presentations from OO seems to work OK.

OO Writer:  Not all the features of Word XP work.  This is only an issue 
when I read complicated documents using footnotes, annotations, change 
bars, etc.  Not a big problem, unless you need these features.

Operation:  OO occasionally freezes or crashes for me, usually in 
Impress, and usually in front of a crowd.  Sometimes, it will hog the 
system in full-screen mode so I can't rotate among windows.  I can 
usually work around these issues, although its embarrassing when it happens.

Nothing really terrible here, but I recommend that you test it under 
your conditions and your requirements.  If it works for you, it works 
great.   Erik