[NTLUG:Discuss] Abiword, Inkscape, Koffice

[Daniel Hauck]

Just a quick follow-up:

Inkscape is WAY cooler than OODraw.  It is just more powerful... at
least it feels that way.  In many ways, it can rival the gimp for
illustrations and stuff and it has a lot of polished features.  OO Draw
might have some good stuff in it too, but I didn't see it right away.  I
saw right away what Inkscape had to offer, however.


Daniel Hauck wrote:
> I rather like OO.o if only because it's very platform independent. 
> Being able to run OO.o on Mac, on Windows and Linux makes doing some 
> kinds of work rather nice.
> 
> Abiword really looked like MS Word.  Koffice I have no idea about... I 
> don't like KDE for one really stupid reason -- I don't like the way it 
> feels... okay, more than one stupid reason... I also don't like that 
> everything has a K in front of it.  Koffice?  Come on!  Makes me think 
> of someone checking me for a hernia or something.
> 
> I've never really used OO Draw and that's for a few reasons:
> 1. It doesn't get played with as my distro is Fedora and they don't even 
> make a shortcut, icon or menu item for it.  (It is available though... I 
> just opened it from the command line)
> 2. It seems really simplistic and I'm not sure where a simple drawing 
> fits into my work at the moment.  (Perhaps that will change tomorrow?)
> 3. For anything graphical, I usually head for the gimp.  Even though 
> it's generally over-kill for simple stuff, I can usually polish up some 
> nice lookin' turds with it!
> 
> I'm not sure why those things were actually "pulled" from the distros 
> you use, but all of those packages listed are available in Fedora 8. 
> (Just tested that as I was composing this email and now I'm going to try 
> Inkscape out...first time!)
> 
> 
> Rev. wRy wrote:
>> gnumeric is gone too.  wasn't that hard to compile, but i had no luck
>> with abiword.  gnucash was a pain, but i had to have it.
>>
>> personally, i don't care for OO, but ended up having to install it
>> anyways. 
>>
>> :(
>>
>> R
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:07 -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>> Can someone tell me why these have been dropped from inclusion in the 
>>> major distributions such as Red hat and SuSE?  Is it because they are 
>>> junk?  Is it just because they "lost" the "market presence" battle?
>>>
>>> How does Abiword compare to OO Writer?
>>>
>>> How does Koffice compare to OO?
>>>
>>> If it is a fair comparison, how does Inkscape compare to OO Draw?
>>>
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