Re: Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

Hi,

"Best" is very subjective.

Our concern was primarily being able to work with MS documents in both 
languages.
While it is not without problems, we find OOo 1.1 serves our purpose, and 
will hopefully get better.
Our use is mainly text - we do not do much with graphics, and do not use 
macros.
We do, however, use fairly big documents and we also track changes.  OOo 
works quite well but is not as happy with bigger documents as 
MSword.  MSword seems to run into trouble at about 60 pages of tracked 
text.  OOo much sooner.

It costs nothing to try, apart from time.

Your staff will probably complain about the change, but hat is to be expected.

I looked at Abiword, some time ago (before 2) and quite liked it, but OOo 
seems to be emerging as the open alternative when exchanging documents with 
MS Word is needed.

I also quite like KDE as the desktop,  but I have not really tried their 
word processor. We can do most of what we need with OOo and Mozilla.



At 10:39 AM 12/03/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>Thank you very much Graham. In your opinion, is OO the best for the desktop?
>
>
>I know we have some RH users - do they know if RH includes  fonts for
>Chinese and other languages?
>
>Cheers
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Graham Brown" <[email protected]>
>To: "Beijing LUG technical questions and assistance - Publicly posted"
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:22 AM
>Subject: Re: [blug-tech] Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We use the English version of open office on RH9 in Chinese.  No font
> > problems (as such).
> > I believe that there is only a limited number of "free" fonts and there
>may
> > be a wider range or better quality available in the Sun version.
> >
> > If the question is "is OOo a workable solution for an office working in
> > Chinese and English" we find that the answer is yes (in both languages).
> >
> > If I remember correctly, (I rarely use the Chinese) there are 3 GB fonts
> > and 2 Big 5 Chinese fonts.  I do not know whether they came with OOo or
> > part of the RH installation.
> >
> >
> > At 10:00 AM 12/03/2004 +0800, you wrote:
> > >So Asian fonts are not included - Any idea how/where to get similar Asian
> > >fonts that could work with office?
> > >
> > >Thank you!
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Siyuan Tian" <[email protected]>
> > >To: <[email protected]>
> > >Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:49 AM
> > >Subject: [blug-tech] Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I have forgotten who asked me this question. But I think it might be
> > > > interesting to others.
> > > >
> > > > I got the information from my colleague who works on StarOffice. He
> > > > pointed me two URLs:
> > > >
> > > > <http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/mostfaqs.html#7>
> > > > <http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/faq.html>
> > > >
> > > > *Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org*
> > > >
> > > >    * The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of
> > > >      all of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that
> > > >      Sun pays to license third-party code to include in StarOffice
>that
> > > >      which it does not have permission to make available in
> > > >      OpenOffice.org. Those things which are or will be present in
> > > >      StarOffice but are not available on OpenOffice.org include:
> > > >          o Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts)
> > > >          o The database component (Adabas D)
> > > >          o Some templates
> > > >          o Extensive Clip Art Gallery
> > > >          o Some sorting functionality (Asian versions)
> > > >          o Certain file filters
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > StarOffice 7 software is based on OpenOffice.org 1.1 and adds a
> > > > commercial spellchecker, Adabas D database, special fonts, additional
> > > > clipart and enterprise features such as the StarOffice Configuration
> > > > Manager. Sun also provides a basic warranty, 60-day end user support,
> > > > and legal indemnification with StarOffice.
> > > >
> > > > Very nice seeing you there in Morel's and thanks for the beer.
> > > >
> > > > Tian
> > > >
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Regards,

Graham Brown