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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Negative review of koffice..
From:       Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-20 9:48:03
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Hi,

To test kword in real-world-situations I tried to do create a 
letter of application which is a very basic and common
task. I felt very enthusiastic after the multimedia-fairs 
about kword so I assumed that it would work fine.

After a day of various attempts it turned out that 
it works only in theory and not in practice (only on a quick 
glimpse for some small test purposes):

- It doesn't offer real WYSIWYG. I tried to print my letter 
  in 11pt or 10pt and the output looked worse than anything
  I would have expected. For 12 pt (which is the default 
  setting) it worked acceptable if your expectations aren't
  too high.
- It heavily lacks zooming a page. As soon as you type
  10 pt-fonts the document becomes unreadable on the average
  screen of a user and for the average eyes of an average
  50-year-old secretary. 10 pt-fonts are very common 
  in the world today and are still not something that one
  would call small. 

So unless these to problems are being fixed we only have 
a 99%-feature-blown wordprocessing-app that works nicely
in theory but is UNUSABLE for most common tasks in practice.
This goes so far that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone
who wants to print his document at a certain point of time
for serious usage.
On the other side: Once the problems above are fixed 
it would be undoubtfully a great killer-app.

;-( Greetings,

Tackat

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