[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 14:41, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Just a mild point of observation/frustration.
> 
> Word97 under WINE vs Openoffice.org 1.1.1.
> 
> I have a 179 Page word document with lots of formatting / indexing.
> 
> Word97 loads from scratch (clean boot) and loads the document in about 5 seconds. Ooo takes about 30.



I haven't seen OO take this long since the days of running a Athlon 800
with 128mb RAM on Debian Woody/KDE3.1 with OO.o 1.0.1 or something
similar.

On my current setup (celery 1.7 with 256mb DDR 845oe Max2 mobo with
~7krpm Seagates, Triplex Radeon 9200 agp card) running Debian sid with
OO.o 1.1.2 most documents load instantly but anything greater than 60
pages with inserted images takes about 3-4 seconds.

I'm not using the oo.o quick start or anything like that and it doesn't
seem particularly taxing on my RAM.


> 
> Word97 is using 24 Meg of ram total, Ooo is using 57.
> 
> Word97 crashes occasionally (but avoidably when you figure out what makes it crash). Ooo buggers up 
> the index beyond repair.
> 

???

I never have any problems with the documents I send to people. Once many
years ago a OO.o created a document that was purple in word but I've
never seen anything like that since.

> Unfortunately for these documents I *have* to use Word as I need to be able to save the document in 
> a format the guys in the office in Perth can use (Word 2000) and Ooo munges the Indexing to a point 
> Word just chokes.
> 
Get them to install OO.o

> It's a good vs Evil thing really. Both have good and bad points.
> 
> While ranting about memory usage. Why the hell is thunderbird using 133MB ? It must load all the 
> mailbox indexes/summaries into ram at once! Granted it's dealing with 1GB of mail on disk, but still.
> 
> Ok. I feel better now.
> 
> Brad
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