Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 06, 2004 02:52 AM
With OpenOffice writer. I recently had to write a small document -- introduction, two chapters, each chapter several sub-headings. Most of the text was in the form of bullet-points.
I had one crash: when I tried to insert a draw object into the text. Inserting an image from a file did work. But when I scaled the image, all images in the document, including the company logo in the header got scaled down, too.
I had a hard time getting the headers to number consistently; when I inserted a new header in the between 1.2 and 1.3, I got a 1.4, and the old 1.3 remained 1.3. Similarly, after saving and loading the document the next day, new bullet items got a different style from the other items.
This, together with some other annoyances and a bit of experience laying out a larger document (600 pages, with lots of styles) makes me think that OpenOffice is quite stable (just one crash), but that its style tools leave something to be desired. The 600 pages never got corrupted, but I had a lot of grief with getting the styles to update.
I think that there's still room for the development of really stable, really capable free word processor.
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I had no such luck
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 06, 2004 02:52 AMI had one crash: when I tried to insert a draw object into the text. Inserting an image from a file did work. But when I scaled the image, all images in the document, including the company logo in the header got scaled down, too.
I had a hard time getting the headers to number consistently; when I inserted a new header in the between 1.2 and 1.3, I got a 1.4, and the old 1.3 remained 1.3. Similarly, after saving and loading the document the next day, new bullet items got a different style from the other items.
This, together with some other annoyances and a bit of experience laying out a larger document (600 pages, with lots of styles) makes me think that OpenOffice is quite stable (just one crash), but that its style tools leave something to be desired. The 600 pages never got corrupted, but I had a lot of grief with getting the styles to update.
I think that there's still room for the development of really stable, really capable free word processor.
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