Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:56:50 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: office apps Message-ID: <20100607035650.GA29350@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: >=20 > Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? > OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a > spreadsheet. >=20 > Short of the full suite, how about just a spreadsheet program that suppor= ts > complex formulas and charting? If it could also be used without X11 when > charting isn't needed, that would make my day. It may be a little late to ask -- but I notice nobody else addressed the matter: Does your OO.o replacement have to be somewhat compatible with MS Office? If so . . . does it have to be two-way compatible? There are options for one-way compatibility (e.g., catdoc for turning MS Word files into plain text), but for being able to interoperate to roughly arbitrary degrees with users of MS Office I'm not aware of anything other than OO.o, KOffice, and whatever GNOME's using, that would work for the purposes you described. Maybe someone else can comment on the suitability of recent versions of Abiword and Gnumeric (for instance). Ever since it essentially stopped being possible to install OO.o from a binary package on FreeBSD for me (at least without also installing Java), I've dreaded the day I will no longer have the venerable OO.o install from way back when and some jackass expects me to talk back and forth via MS Excel. I loathe "applications" written in VBA, to put it mildly, and only my loathing for MS Windows and MS Office has kept that ancient OO.o install on one of my computers for so long. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwMbgIACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUKrgCg5KWZFWDmr+DCzqppsgEY03Hc uC4AoOCLoBLt8CG1fkkpPSLkHzB8mLlH =YFxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--
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