atw: Re: changing to Wordperfect
- From: "Naomi Kramer" <nomesque@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:23:03 +1000
Hrmmm... I think I'd want to do a much more in-depth comparison before
presenting it to a group. Partly because I suspect they know a lot more than
me
:-)
Maybe sometime I'll be in Sydney when a Westies meeting is on, and manage to
come along to say hi... but at the moment I always seem to be there during
standard holiday seasons (I'm so boring!).
For the record, though, I attempted to port one of our 'big mama' manuals (only
120 pages but lots of graphics - and NUMBERING! ARGH!) into WP 11,
OpenOffice.org Writer 1.3 and 1.9 (pre-beta preview snapshot builds). They
were originally in Word. I compared the ease of import, the ease of standard
tasks (eg. creating numbered lists, tables with vertical headings), and how
easily
and well the finished document could be exported to tagged PDF.
End result - for what we need, OpenOffice.org Writer 2.0-pre-beta (bugs and
all)
was far more suited than either Word or WP. It's more stable than Word with
our documents and does everything we need - with a few added bonuses. And
it's free, but that didn't enter into considerations.
- Naomi
> I hope Naomi's comparison of OpenOffice.org, Word and WordPerfect has
> helped Margaret. Maybe ASTC should invite Naomi to present her comparison
> at a meeting with a discussion of what choice was made and why. We'd love
> to see you at Westies, Naomi!
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