On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 18:37, John Seago wrote: > I have used AbiWord up to, now to read and print Microsoft Word documents, > I, going by its home page, took it that having translated FROM Microsoft > Word, it would do the reverse, see the following from its home page: > > "What Makes AbiWord Different? > > AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully > cross-platform word processor.
OpenOffice.org Writer aspires to the same so its not unique on that count alone. > Our source code is carefully written so > that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of > time spent on porting. This combined with our support for > internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives > AbiWord a massive potential user-base. As with OOo Writer. Abiword has some advantages in being separable from the other apps and presumably its smaller and will run on lower spec machines. Bu t do keep in mind that in terms of file format OASIS is the most likely common denominator with a chance of getting mass take up to displace .doc. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
