[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:59, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:12, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Allow me to express my envy. I've had it take five minutes to load
> large, complex legal documents in MS Word format (of course). We're
> taking 2000 pages with hundreds of sections, thousands of footnotes, etc
> - scary documents.

It sounds to me like Nvidia or ATI should make a PCI card specifically
for rendering word docs :)
> 
> On the other hand, I've then quickly and easily made PDFs of them from
> OO.o so the boss can use them quickly and easily.
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
> 
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