Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-29 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
--- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Michael Scottaline wrote: While Kword can IMPORT .doc files reasonably well (if they're not to complex), I don't believe it can export in .doc format. The others do it well, especially Star and Open Office. Not to get too technical, but AbiWord

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:47:27 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Yes, yes. AbiWord can export as either .rtf or .doc. It was kword that I was pointing out can NOT export in .doc (though I believe it will in .rtf). Mike, Sorry, what I said was poorly phrased.

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Scottaline wrote: Not to beat this to death, but I tried this littl experiment just now. I opened a document in AbiWord (0.99.7) that had a .aw extension (from Applixware). Went to save as, and saved it as a .doc file [yes, it's one of the options, along with .rtf and a half

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 27 Apr 2002 20:14:13 -0400 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Javier, Supposedly Kword, Abiword, StarOffice and OpenOffice can all do that. I've used them all with mixed success. Currently I would recommend OpenOffice...it's quite powerful and will handle MS Excel and

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Scottaline wrote: While Kword can IMPORT .doc files reasonably well (if they're not to complex), I don't believe it can export in .doc format. The others do it well, especially Star and Open Office. Not to get too technical, but AbiWord will actually export in rtf format, but with a

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread Warren Post
There are several, but I've been happiest with Open Office, at openoffice.org. I should warn you that the Spanish version is on a slw server. Saludos, Warren Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:13:56 +0200 Javier de Lázaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
shane wrote: On Saturday 27 April 2002 15:22, Gerald Waugh opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: women! I love em!, but her box rules! ;-) the funny thing is i tried to get her to try linux for over 18 months. no! i don't like it the mouse feels

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:18:21 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Michael Scottaline wrote: While Kword can IMPORT .doc files reasonably well (if they're not to complex), I don't believe it can export in .doc format. The others do it well, especially Star and Open

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Scottaline wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:18:21 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Not to get too technical, but AbiWord will actually export in rtf format, but with a .doc extension -- Word can handle that quite well (for the things which AbiWord supports, so

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-28 Thread Michael
FemmeFatale wrote: shane wrote: On Saturday 27 April 2002 15:22, Gerald Waugh opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: women! I love em!, but her box rules! ;-) the funny thing is i tried to get her to try linux for over 18 months. no! i

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-27 Thread Jesse Angell
Star Office... Open Office On Saturday 27 April 2002 03:13 pm, Javier de Lázaro wrote: Hi you all! I´m looking for a Linux word processor that is able to save documents as Word format so I can print them under Windows without loosing format. Any advice? Thanks in advance. Want to

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-27 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Saturday 27 April 2002 05:21 pm, shane wrote: On Saturday 27 April 2002 13:45, Gerald Waugh opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I´m looking for a Linux word processor that is able to save documents as Word format so I can print them under Windows

Re: [newbie] Word processor question.

2002-04-27 Thread Terry Smith
Javier, Supposedly Kword, Abiword, StarOffice and OpenOffice can all do that. I've used them all with mixed success. Currently I would recommend OpenOffice...it's quite powerful and will handle MS Excel and Powerpoint files as well. It's on the 8.2 distro or you can get the latest build from

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Admin wrote: Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible). Any suggestions? Thanks... AbiWord is a good word processor, it will be a great word processor. It is not finished yet. Currently,

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
Randy Kramer wrote: Admin wrote: Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible). Any suggestions? Thanks... AbiWord is a good word processor, it will be a great word processor. It is

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
StarOffice 5.2 is a great piece of work. Its problems are bloat and the integrated desktop (although I've grown used to it over time). Other than that it is incredibly solid - I've written large documents on it over the period of a week (i.e. open the entire time) and it never crashed on me.

Re: Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Mandrake Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: StarOffice 5.2 is a great piece of work. Its problems are bloat and the integrated desktop (although I've grown used to it over time). Other than that it is incredibly solid - I've written large documents on it over the period of a week (i.e. open the entire time) and

[newbie] Word processor and PDF

2001-10-28 Thread falcaraz
The best way is use latex. Latex come with all the linux distributions, and if it is actually difficult to learn when you start, in a few days you will be very glad with it. Nowadays we have front-end very good to use latex in linux, for example ktexmaker2

Re: [newbie] Word processor and PDF

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best way is use latex. Latex come with all the linux distributions, and if it is actually difficult to learn when you start, in a few days you will be very glad with it. Nowadays we have front-end very good to use latex in linux, for example ktexmaker2

Re: Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 29 October 2001 11:09, you wrote: Hi there! =) I'm just new to this mailing list and I hope you can help me with my problem. Is there any Word Processor that can save output as PDF file? Shall we say, I will make a document but I will save it as PDF file and can be viewed like

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread civileme
On Saturday 27 October 2001 20:34, Admin wrote: Hello: Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible). Any suggestions? Thanks... Dexter KWord, Abiword, StarOffice can all do that. AbiWord

RE: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Abiword! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Admin |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:35 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Word processor | | |Hello: | |Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs