The Abiword <http://www.abisource.com/>, word processor goes back years. I can personally recall using it back over 10 years ago.
For the last year or two I have been using LibreOffice's Word processor for documents that I render off as PDF ( which are then sent to customers etc.) I was also using it for simple 2 to 3 paragraph updates, running up to 4 copies at a time. Since LibraOffice ( and OpenOffice ) are LARGE Java applications that is kinda overkill. A few days ago another Java update to 1.6 occurred and LibraOffice was not able to handle it. I had to reboot the system for writer to work again. This got me thinking that a huge office suite used to edit just a handful of sentences was using the wrong tool for the job. Recently I came across AbiWord as part of a light Linux build ( think Puppie Linux ) So seeing that it has been kept somewhat up to date, but has not evolved in to a bloated office suite, I gave it another try. I have been pleasantly surprised that it can do the little things that I need easy and quickly. It's as nimble as notepad is but with enough function to be a true word processor. I'll still use LibreOffice for the big jobs, but now I have a tool that works like "MS Word" (tm) (c) but way faster and has a way smaller memory footprint. -- /** Joe Apuzzo ** Call: KD2AKU ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 **/
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