Hi Folks,
Soon after crossoverCoffice was released I bought a copy. The
program uses an enhanced wine to run MSOffice apps in
Linux. crossOverOffice is a great program and the codeweaver guys are
really cool. If you need to run MS Word on Linux (like me) this is much
better than VMWare or Win2Lin. There are a few visual glitches but the
program is actually quite stable and much faster than the other
solutions. It also faster than StarOffice though of course it's slower
than us!
(It also made it possible for me to finish up some niggly little issues
with our RTF exporter.)
Anyway, crossover uses FreeType2 to do anti-aliasing of the the MS Word
text. On my admittedly fast machines this gives very good performance. My
guess is that a FreeType 2 renderer will give good performance on abiword
too.
Cheers
Martin
