[SOLVED] Calligra vs. LibreOffice

Samsonite2010 · 05-05-2015, 06:25 AM

To address the original question. I did not get on with the UI of Calligra although it appealed to me on paper. I must admit, I did not give Calligra a lot of use but that is because I found Libre Office worked perfectly well and I have carried on using that. Ultimately you will only know until you try - I have to use MS Office for work and have done for a long time but I have found I can use Libre Office instead, especially as end-user documents are generally turned into PDFs. I have actually found that MS Office 2013 has a lot of issues - Outlook, Excel and Word (probably the other applications too) all freeze at certain times for no apparent reason. My colleagues and even family have encountered the same issues so it's definitely a problem with Office 2013. Anyway, that's partly why I work from home and use Xubuntu to do most of it now. I RDP into my laptop for certain things and actually have less issues using Windows remotely!

Let us know which one you try first.

knudfl · 05-05-2015, 06:29 AM

Re post #15, @turboscrew :

Read post #10 : # rpm -Uvh --nodeps softmaker-freeoffice-697.i386.rpm

turboscrew · 05-05-2015, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Re post #15, @turboscrew :

Read post #10 : # rpm -Uvh --nodeps softmaker-freeoffice-697.i386.rpm

Thanks.

Code:

bash-4.2# rpm -Uvh --nodeps softmaker-freeoffice-698.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                          ################################# [100]
Updating / installing...
   1:softmaker-freeoffice-2012-698    ################################# [100%]
Using existing xdg-utils
Adding document icons...
Registering MIME types...
Adding icons to the menu...
Adding icons to the desktop...

Now, where is the spreadsheet?
And why the registration + key?

knudfl · 05-05-2015, 11:31 AM

Re #18.

"where is the spreadsheet ?" : See post #10 : FreeOffice Planmaker.
And follow the links you got ... to :
http://www.freeoffice.com/en/feature...fice-planmaker

"why the registration + key ?" : It's commercial software.
.. Don't worry, they will just email you some info about updates, etc.

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turboscrew · 05-05-2015, 05:18 PM

Aha. I thought 'PlanMaker' would be something different - like Planner (time tables).
I guess 'Presentations' is equal to PowerPoint.
'TextMaker' is obviously "word"-equal.

Then, how do you get rid of the "side bar"?
Calligra had it too, and I didn't find a way to get rid of it.
Irritating when you have wider tables.

My table lines are like this:

Code:

c	c	c	c	0	1	0	P	U	0	W	0	n	n	n	n	t	t	t	t	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	  STR<c> <Rt>,[<Rn>{,#+/-<imm12>}] STR<c> <Rt>,[<Rn>],#+/-<imm12> STR<c> <Rt>,[<Rn>,#+/-<imm12>]!	 A1	 A8.8.204

Each bit in its own cell, the mnemonics in one cell, the encoding in one cell and a chapter number to a manual where the instruction is described.

[EDIT]
Found it (the small "handle" on its left side).
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turboscrew · 05-05-2015, 05:36 PM

Looks good. Let the test drive begin. :-)

knudfl · 05-05-2015, 07:14 PM

Re #20.

Quote:

how do you get rid of the "side bar" ?

Simple : Click the tiny arrow ...

turboscrew · 05-05-2015, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Re #20.

Simple : Click the tiny arrow ...

Thanks, I already realized... :-)

Quote:

[EDIT]
Found it (the small "handle" on its left side).
[/EDIT]

turboscrew · 05-05-2015, 08:31 PM

Does PlanMaker handle .ods documents?
Didn't find that file type in the 'Open' dialog.

knudfl · 05-05-2015, 10:08 PM

Re #24.

Textmaker : .odt : Yes.
Planmaker : .ods : Doesn't seem to be present in the "Save window".

Suggest : Save as .xls (Should open in LibreOffice / OpenOffice ?)

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turboscrew · 05-06-2015, 03:09 AM

Hm, I also need to be compatible with open document formats too, so I guess I'll go with LibreOffice. I'll keep the FreeOffice too, for now, though. Maybe the next document I need to work with is M$ Office format.

Thanks anyway.

And Calligra is unstable and much slower than OpenOffice. It messes up the whole system.
For me it's OpenOffice or LibreOffice.