KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[Knapp]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/29 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>:
>> Want to have fun look at file size for 3 text documents between the big four.
>> Word
>> OO
>> Kword
>> Acrobat
>>
>> There load speed is about in that order too, starting with slowest. (I
>> have not used word in years, so maybe it is faster now.)
>> Their ability to open Word docs in about in that order too but I have
>> heard that sometimes OO does better than word with opening old MS
>> files.
>
> not any faster, in MS office 2007, try pasting 2 pages, with at least
> one picture in them, happy waiting :P it took about 1 minute on a 3.0
> GHz CPU! OOo has only one problem with MS files, and that is fonts!
> the use of different fonts by the 2 suites is really a problem. some
> guy comes in with a MS office 2003 doc file, using some fancy font
> (one of the fonts supplied by MS office, not a custom one), i open it
> with OOo, and... looks horrible in some normal font. that's one of the
> reasons i keep MS office installed on all my windows PCs, in case i
> can't print it from kubuntu.
>
>> Also OO used to open the whole office at the same time so that
>> switching between writing and spread sheet did not mean any more
>> loading. Does it still?
>
> --
> Willy K. Hamra

If you have windows then can't you just take the fonts from it and
install them on Linux?



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