OpenOffice alternative?

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 06 May 2008 10:34:56 -0400
Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:

> R Kimber wrote:
> > What alternatives to OpenOffice do people use for a word processor?
> >
> > I'm struggling with OO.  Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear
> > as arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking
> > font called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font
> > websites and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that
> > name.
> >
> > Also, OO wouldn't correctly print a saved letter that had an
> > anchored table imported from the OO spreadsheet.  Only the first
> > cell of the table was printed.
> >
> > I tried re-installing, and that did fix other issues that I had.
> >
> > So, I'm looking for a word processor that "just works" [TM]   :-)
> > What do people use?
> >
> > - Richard
> >   
> 
> AbiWord and KWord for any RTF documents at home.
> 
> However, I use OpenOffice.org at work all the time, with msttcorefonts
> installed.  And I do so in a total Microsoft shop.  That is, I'm
> always sending/receiving MS Word-formatted docs to all my MS Office
> XP/2003-using colleagues, and they don't know the difference.  It
> works great.
> 
> Yes, I use the OpenOffice.org that comes with the distro, and I've
> been doing so since Hoary Hedgehog.  The only time I've ever had a
> document look "ugly" when using Arial or Times New Roman is when I
> *thought* I had msttcorefonts installed...but didn't.  You might want
> to verify that one more time.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I'll try Abiword and Kword.

Yes, I certainly have msttcorefonts.  One problem about the official OO
release is that it isn't 64 bit, and I don't want to have to fiddle
around trying to install it (and indeed the necessary java).

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/