Hello,
Since a few days openoffice hangs when I open saved files... I opened those same files much quicker before. I have about 500 mb of RAM on my machine so I don't think this is the problem.
Any idea ?
I red about Abiword on this list... what are the differences with oowrite?
By the way is Koffice lighter then openoffice? Any user on this list?
Given that OO was opening files OK before, I'd recommend fixing the problem rather than changing your word procesor. But anyway, FYI ...
Abiword is very light, and somewhat minimalistic. It's aquired some features since I stopped using it a while back, but it's still more of a choice for someone running an old, slow system who doesn't need to do anything fancy with their word-processor (BTW, it is just a word processor, not a whole office suite like OO or KOffice).
Koffice is a bit faster than OO (assuming you're running KDE - I don't know how it performs in other environments). The look and feel of KWord is more like a DTP program than a word processor - it's very good if you want to do a lot with frames (which I don't). Unlike most other programs, it has some limited ability to edit PDF files, but the only times I've tried to open PDF files in KWord, it screwed up the formatting completely. A major disadvantage for those of us who have to share documents with Windows users is its inability to save in Word format (though it can open Word documents). Personally I think it falls between two stools (if I want to do fancy FTP stuff, I'll use Scribus) but some people like it.
Of course if you are producing documents solely for your own use (or for people who only want to print, not edit, the files you send them, or who are also Linux/Unix users) the best program is still, IMHO, LyX.
Sir Robin
-- "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." - Wittgenstein
Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey
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