Re: [expert] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Tom Badran
I was a star office user for about 2 years and it never did me wrong (albeit slowly). I started using koffice around the same time kde2 betas were out (october of last year ish) and the whole suite has proved very reliable. I did have issuse when embedding from one app to another, but that was

Re: [expert] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Praedor S. Tempus
I have found it unreliable. I only use it for one-time, low-importance stuff. For anything important, I rely on either Lyx or StarOffice. With Kword, I have run into problems with fonts, stability (random crashes), or unusability. The unusability part wasn't actually kword, but kspread.

Re: [expert] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
graphic spreadsheet - but doing so doesn't do anything useful. The bar chart doesn't match with the data you entered. I think I can see what you mean, but hell, a 3d pie with a background jpeg pixmap just looks so cool. Who cares what the graph represents? :) Kspread also misses some

[expert] Kword 1.0 survey -- Solid? Reliable? Feature-rich?

2001-06-25 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just taking an informal survey as I consider switching from StarOffice to Kword (the current Kword 1.0 version in LM 8.0, NOT the latest Koffice 1.1 beta). What's your verdict? Is Kword 1.0 reliable? Solid? feature-rich? Are you happy with it? If so, did you switch from