Where to, LibreOffice?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

My problems with LO relate to the RTF format, which is not working well for
me.  So far, it's changed the page bottom-margin by several inches, and
lost a table width.  I guess I'll struggle along....


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Jose I Diaz Bardales <
> jose.dbardales at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 11/10/2012 07:06 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>> > On Nov 10, 2012 5:56 PM, "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:kogorman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> After a long time away, I find myself coming back to a word
>> > processor.  I'm about to write for publication, and they prefer a
>> > word-compatible format.  I used to use OpenOffice a bit, and don't
>> > remember having any trouble with it.  Now the repos seem to only have
>> > LibreOffice -- the things named after OpenOffice seem to be all
>> > transitional packages, not really OpenOffice at all.
>> >>
>> >> I've been at this a day, and I've already filed 3 bugs.  This does not
>> > seem good.  Before I spend the effort to switch over to see if things
>> > really *are* better over there, would someone please comment about the
>> > pros/cons of downloading and using OpenOffice on xubuntu/ubuntu?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Kevin O'Gorman
>> >>
>> >> programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
>> >
>> > OO.o is still maintained? I thought the dev community all went to LO. LO
>> > is what I use for the simple reason that it is actively maintained, and
>> > in the repo's. I believe it was forked from OO.o as well. I think there
>> > were shennanigans involving Oracle or someone, but I can't remember the
>> > exact details. Anyway, LO produces word docs just fine. Do it all the
>> > time at work for people who won't use free software.
>>
>> I believe OpenOffice in now develop by the Apache Foundation and the
>> last thing I heard they were working on a OO version for the cloud.
>>
>> Anyways, You should be able to open, edit, and save all your documents
>> as *.doc or *.docx
>>
>> IMHO LibreOffice does have some minor bugs, but you should be able to
>> work on your documents unless you have some very special requirements.
>>
>> HTH
>>
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