Re: OpenOffice [was Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian]

2002-03-04 Thread Davor Balder
Hi Phillip, I did some search on OpenOffice... It runs on as little as 32MB of memory (however the more the better)... Heavy window managers may require at least 64MB of RAM... So, I may be wrong about the memory after all... Also, they suggest that problems with menu redraw (and some icons a

Re: OpenOffice [was Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian]

2002-03-03 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:32:25 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kword from KDE is rather DTP oriented, have you tried it? Thanks for your reply, Hans. Yes, I have been looking at Kword and am impressed. It handles frames etc. very well. Maybe when it has a few more features I could us

OpenOffice [was Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian]

2002-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:22:26AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:39:03 +1100 > Davor Balder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I use AbiWord as well as OpenOffice... OpenOffice is nice too if you > > need plenty of nice features... As far as I am concerned, OpenOffice is > >

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-03 Thread Davor Balder
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:22:26AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Hi Davor. Thanks for your input. > > What version are you using? I downloaded the 641C version - but that was > dated March 2001. Surely much must have happened in a year. The latest > versions must be wonderful - how do you get th

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-03 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:39:03 +1100 Davor Balder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use AbiWord as well as OpenOffice... OpenOffice is nice too if you > need plenty of nice features... As far as I am concerned, OpenOffice is > my favorite for communications with those poor Word users... As a matter > of

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-03 Thread Davor Balder
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:09:16AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:29:01 + > Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why is it taking so long to get decent GUI wordprocessing in Linux? > > StarOffice is OK, but version 5 was/is a joke the way it enforces the > > riduculou

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-02 Thread csj
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:29:01 + Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it taking so long to get decent GUI wordprocessing in Linux? > StarOffice is OK, but version 5 was/is a joke the way it enforces the > riduculous SO desktop on users. We do need something similar to MS Office,

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-02 Thread Phillip Deackes
On 02 Mar 2002 00:55:36 -0900 "Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not much traffic there now but the archive is very helpful. > news://cnews.corel.com/corel.wpoffice.office2000-linux Thanks, Greg. It does appear CWP for Linux is a terminal case - Xandros, the new owners of Corel Linux,