Office Alternatives?

[voidmain]

Actually MS Office is no different. You want a network installation you have to give the setup program special parameters.

[alex247]

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anybody knows of a program that has WordPerfect 2000 import filters ?  cuz I remember a while back when I tried OpenOffice, it didn't support WordPerfect documents.  I didn't try it since then (which was 4-5 months ago), so I don't know if it's changed or not.
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[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:


it didn't up to 1.0, not sure about 1.0.1 but i bet it's the same. that, and the fact of needing to type "./install net" to install it is the only thing that gets it the thumbs down for me. Actually there's nothing wrong with any of that at all, but i think that those issues and how to resolve them need to be shouted from the rooftops a bit for linux newbies. in windows, you just doubleclick the .exe file, and there you go. how hard would it be to make a similar script that does the menu and adds the 'net' flag as well, for easy installation by newbies?

Yes well calum, keep in mind that it is opensource we are talking about and you could do this whenever you wanted as long as you have the time and kill.

And voidmain... more the reason to do it... then it will be better then Microsoft in one more way.

[Calum]

well, if i had ANY coding skills, i might do that! but i don't so there. in the meantime, i will continue to be verbose about the requirements of things as i see them.
Your point about open source is a good one though, unlike with closed source programs, if a programmer who did have some coding skills saw my ranting and thought 'hey this guy's actually got a point!', then he or she could indeed implement that themselves.

re: wordperfect, does openoffice.org not do this? that surprises me, can anybody confirm or deny? i am at work, so i can't check now. Also, isn't there a version of wordperfect for linux? or am i making that up...

edit - click here for a revelation in word processing technology!

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: Calum-21.2 ]

[foobar]

quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b:
Was based on Netscrape, now Netscrape is based on Mozilla.

( lol ) heh  

[emh]

Open Office does not import or export WordPerfect file formats.  If you want to change wpd files over to Open Office files, you'll first need to save them as doc files in WordPerfect, then open them in Open Office.

And yes, there is/was a version of WordPerfect for Linux.  I have never used it, but I heard Word Perfect 2000 was little more than the Windows version run with Wine.  You could probably still get it somewhere, but as far as I know, Corel doesn't write for Linux anymore.  You can still get Corel Draw at http://linux.corel.com

[voidmain]

You won't get much from Corel for Linux any time soon. Not too long after they started porting apps Microsoft bought them out as they do with any company that poses a threat:

http://www.forbes.com/2000/10/03/1003corel.html

[emh]

Well, the article didn't explicitly say that Microsoft told Corel that they couldn't produce for Linux, but it does seem that way, given Microsoft's past.

I think Star Office imports and exports Word Perfect format files.  I don't know that for sure, and I'm not about to spend $75 to find out.....

[voidmain]

Well you can pretty much tell from their "news" page how commited to Linux they are since the buyout. All Linux news appears to have ceased as of Aug 15, 2000:

http://linux.corel.com/news/today.htm

They've been assimilated.

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]