Part of a special feature on open source and developing nations,Ī look at what the Brazilian government is doing in alternative software. Published on ZDNet News: November 14, 2005, 5:41 PM PT To hard to use google and wordprocessor i guess Well at least it makes me always smile when somebody is frustrated with word “what there is something different than word? i did not know that” belive it or not quite some people thought there is ONLY word. but i doubt that this will change a lot for MS. this opens the possebility again to better apps which support opendoc like openoffice. i am happy to see that like here in the US some states ruled that the gov has to use the opendoc format for document exchange. so everybody new well bought word as well. thats ragtime.Īnd in the industry you cannot wast time on converting documents. it is very powerfull offers great typographical features which i always look for. Ragtime is anyway a great application and because it is free for personal usage for os x and windows i can only recomend it. they secretaries were vrey happy with it but than they got PCs and were forced to use word because everybody else uses word and not ragtime, so they could not open ragtime, which makes sense in this case. I was working at a school and they used ragtime there. everybody uses it because everybody uses it. MSword somehow grew to a standart very quickly. I could only underdstand that because of MS agressive and successful marketing people sticked to it. I cannot understand why people use word anyway.
It has problems of its own but I prefer it. They swore they would use LaTeX for future projects. They were even using much more powerful machines than me. I remember at university, people were having so many problems with their reports using Word. I like being able to split stuff into chapters too and compile it all together. Plain text is just so much faster to deal with. I actually use LaTeX for critical stuff and output pdf. doc format when people absolutely must have them in that format %|. I just use it for opening/translating word documents and sending files in.
I don’t really use neooffice that much for critical documents because it is too slow. I’m not a big fan of Java or OS X’s X11 at all. It would be better IMO if they used Cocoa for the interface and used the openoffice base. It’s not very responsive but the typing feels faster than OpenOffice under X11. It takes about the same time to launch as OpenOffice 2.
Ihow is your neooffice experiene on os x with java?ĭoes it run fast and smooth? the font access is a big plus.
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