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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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Wednesday March 27, 2002
09:39 AM
OpenOffice
Using OpenOffice 641c here at work. I have to say this is a very very nice open source word processor. I tried really hard to like KWord and AbiWord, but I just couldn't get along with them. They would quite simply get things like bullet points, indenting, formatting, and so on, just plain wrong. And I couldn't cope with it. OpenOffice just gets stuff right. It has that pedigree feeling to it (and so it should - it's quite an old product). I'm very happy with it.
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Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
I tried using it as a replacement for PowerPoint. No joy. Crashes, eats files (completely), mangles slide drawing, goes wacky in the middle of slideshow presentations.
Don't Go There. You won't like it...
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
Been there. Done that. Had to recreate a 150 page presentation from the original notes in two days. Won't be using Open Office Presenter again for quite some time.
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
I've been using AppleWorks' presentation module of late on my OS X laptop. It's OK, but I'm hitting its limits. I'm probably going to end up springing for PowerPoint, like it or not.
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
Yeah, but there's that whole XML thing. Ick. :)
Matt Sergeant [cpan.org] is probably not the right person to say that to. At least if you're looking for agreement. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
Re:Wait until you try the presentation module... (Score:2)
It just happens to be the ick with the best tools