Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 08:57:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ApplixWare vs. StarOffice Message-ID: <19971031085742.07824@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030114659.17844R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 11:52:28AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030114659.17844R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 11:52:28AM -0800, Doug White wrote: > We're drifting a bit here but what the heck ;-) > > Anyone out there tried ApplixWare and StarOffice and have any opinions? > I'm in desperate need of a word processor and don't want to clog my laptop > with MicroSlop Word while I'm trying to sell it. > > My previous experience with the StarOffice betas was not enjoyable. The > installation was confusing and some features were broken for the English > case, such as the SmartQuotes. (There are no separate `` and '' > characters in the X font set, but it does have the German << and >>.) These aren't German. I think they must translate into `` and '' (or the Real German ,, and ''). But you can turn them off. > I also had trouble with it crashing intermittiently and with > graphics artifacts and a generally unstable interface. I find this too. > ApplixWare is cheap for students ($80!) and apparently has a nice word > processor and spreadsheet modules. That's still $80 more than Star Office. > Presentation graphics is nice but not necessary. The word processor is > the priority. > > Thanks for any insight or recommendations to forward to -chat. :-) My wife uses StarOffice and loves it. I hate it. I suspect that I would hate ApplixWare and Microslop Wart just as much: I don't like the interface. It's full of irrelevant pictures which I can't make any sense of, and it doesn't seem to offer the functionality I need. But I'm not the typical word processor user. The German magazine c't did a test of Microsoft-based word processors a while back, and gave StarOffice better marks than Wart (but it downgraded Wart because of significant bugs). Greg
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