[plug] OpenOffice.org to the rescue

[Craig Ringer]

> I still have them telling me OpenOffice.org can't be much good because you get 
> what you pay for but perhaps it will be in a softer voice from now on.

Heh. OO.o does have it's limitations but it's an awfully handy app 
indeed, and I'd say you get (unsurprisingly) infinitely more than you 
pay for. I'm getting good results at work, especially with 1.1rc1 - 
which we're now using in production.

The splash screen doesn't get time to fully display before the main 
window loads :-) . This is to the point where I'd like to be able to 
turn off the splash screen so I can eliminate the annoying flash.

I'm still having issues with complex word documents, seems to be things 
involving absolutely positioned text and graphics areas (because of 
COURSE word is a good desktop publishing program...) overlapping has 
issues, as if OO.o isn't fully decoding the layering information. I'll 
be sending sample docs to the friendly OO.o folks shortly. I had a nice 
bundle of docs all ready to go, but when I opened them up in Word Viewer 
97 it couldn't handle half of them as well as OO.o could. Some were OK 
in Word 2000, some where either just stuffed or needed Office XP. I 
can't complain when OO.o handles a doc format better than MS's viewer 
for the format!

I'm also watching the glow project (OO.o groupware) and OGo pretty 
closely....

Craig Ringer