[NTLUG:Discuss] Abiword, Inkscape, Koffice

[Steve Baker]

Certainly - I've found Inkscape to be preferable to OODraw - it's a 
really slick tool.

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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