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List:       koffice
Subject:    Import question - applix->kword
From:       "William W. Austin" <waustin () speakeasy ! net>
Date:       2005-07-08 13:56:57
Message-ID: 1120831017l.13028l.0l () 34 ! mumb ! atln ! nrcrgais ! dsl ! att ! net
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At the office many of us previously used applix for a fairly large  
document library (many reasons - not relevent here), but due to (a) the  
fact that it does not work reliably on more modern linux distributions,  
and (b) the fact that it won't even start on fedora 3 or the latest rh  
releases (not without significant tinkering, anyway...), we didn't  
decide to change - we had to.

We are still evaluating and have both koffice (1.3.5) and  
openoffice/staroffice as alternatives (we're trying to *avoid* ms  
office).

So a couple of questions: I realize that the tables from applix word  
documents get rearranged to one cell per line (4x4 table becomes 16  
lines, etc.), page headers/footers disappear, and footnotes appear to  
be a little "strange" (still working on this one) when imported into  
kword from applix word.

(Also when trying to share a doc between koffice and open office, kword  
offers to save the doc as an openoffice-1 format doc, ".sxw", but none  
of those has been readable by openoffice yet; but since rtf also  
exists, that is less of a problem, although formating gets somewhat  
hosed again.  But we can live with tht for now...)

Is the importing of the applix docs (word, spreadsheet) improved in the  
later release(s) at this time?  Since koffice can handle these, and oo  
can't this would make the choice between the two a little easier.

(Aside: we may just have to put up an older machine on something like  
redhat8.0 and install applix on it; but currently we don't have the  
time or the machine to do that on...)

Thanks,

-- 
William W. Austin                                 waustin@speakeasy.net
  "Life is just another phase I'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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