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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Negative review of koffice..
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       2000-04-18 15:26:59
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Lotzi Boloni wrote:

> > > right now, there are circumstances which cause one to go with abiword 
> > > instead. i know, because i've been using both. the determining factor 
> > > here, now, is that at 1280x1024, kword simply cannot be used and 
> > > abiword can. both are relatively stable. neither has the screen font 
> > > handling that the late, lamented maxwell had. i haven't looked at 
> > 
> > Please tell me why abiword is superiour to kword at 1280x1024.
> 
>   Martin, they are right in this. If you are using 10pt fonts, normal for
> texts, the lack of zoom makes the text in kword almost invisible. You may
> try to write your file with 18 point letters, then convert it back before
> printing, etc, but it is certainly not usable as it is right now. 
> 
>   I am certain that as the kdebase applications will be more or less
> finished, there will be a larger emphasis on koffice and other packages
> and all these problems will be fixed. 

Ok, is there anything else except the mising zoom feature?

Yours,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Stauffenbergstr. 107, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany  //   
KDE:  The most advanced GUI for a reliable OS.

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