Abiword versus LibreOffice
 

I just installed abiword in Slackware 14.1, mainly to gain some more experience using sbopkg.
I noticed when I tried it out that the fonts appear sharper and clearer
in abiword than Libreoffice and print out clearer as a result.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi...

I just tried out both programs myself using the same font and size but for me, the font (Liberation Serif) in LibreOffice appeared sharper, more bold to me. Not sure why. :scratch:

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Thank you.:)
My real goal is to become proficient with Slackware.

You're welcome :)

Liber for me . Does everything and works fine. No reason to go back to abi.

Libre is a full feature office suite that works very well. Since abiword is only a document writer,
comparisons can only be made in that regard. Since clean, clear text is important to me, I am
pleasantly surprised with abiword. I really wasn't expecting much.

How does abiword compare with libreoffice these days on .docx formatting? the last time I used abiword, it didn't format .docx files near as well as libreoffice, but its been a long time since trying it out.

i was curious.
unfortunately, not well at all.
here's a comparison i just made. to be fair, i've chosen a rotten .docx document for this. my school is the only providing me with docx format, and they probably converted this one from a 20 year old word document... who knows...
anyhow, abiword doesn't even render the complete text!

Thank you for this.