Softmaker ... → Textmaker free 2006 ..


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I don't use office suites much (if at all), but if I wanted "the most productive" I'd choose Open Office.

My favorite for a loonnnggg time has been Adobe FrameMaker; alas, Frame has been available for winders and Solaris but not for Linux so the only real option is OpenOffice -- but it looks, smells, acts and feels too much like the lowest common denominator (that would be [shudder] MS Office) and is nowhere near as easy to do things with as is Frame. I do not give a hoot about spread sheets (if you have an RDBMS available, what the heck do you need with a spread sheet?) but I do care about text processors and it just annoys the hell out of me when I am forced to lift my hands off a keyboard to click on some blasted thing that should be control-blah (or alt-blah or some combination thereof -- and, yeah, I do know that a lot of things can be done that way with OO). I also have a warm place in my heart for vi and troff with the mm macros (wrote a book with Documentor's Workbench, heckuva lot easier than any word processor ever has been or ever will be).

There, now I feel better.

Unlike a lot of those responding I pretty well have to have an Office Suite of some sort because of the mixture of work and home stuff that I do on my Linux machines. Can only really compare Koffice and OpenOffice. The K stuff never really worked very well for me. The Sun stuff was very slow and bloat-feel in early versions (and when I probably had a lot less RAM) but I use 3.0 very happily now. Only moan is that I almost never find how to do or configure things by looking in the help files - somebody somewhere has usually posted something that can be googled though.

I voted for Open Office. If there is room I would like to see OO 3.x in the next stable version of Slackware. If there isn't room for OO I will continue to happily use rworkman's OO package.

OpenOffice it is. It runs pretty fast on my work desktop if and when I need it, and ever since the major version 2 has filled my "office" application needs (namely working with MS Office documents, if the other parties cannot/will not use anything else). Must say, though, that for "real" working I use latex, awk, python, gnuplot etc. because of their abilities and me being used to them.

I started using latex for my maths assignments a few months ago and it turned out it's easier than I had expected. I still struggle with gnuplot but I'm getting there slowly. For standard 'office' documents I use Softmaker office though.

You know I got extra points on a paper for making a 3D graph using gnuplot. Nobody else did, they all made lots of 2D plots to try to represent the data, guess that's the limit of excel, heheh

I can produce way better looking documents with latex than with Word, and what's better is that latex templates are easier to create and manage than with any of the wysiwyg word processors. I found it way easier to learn the basic latex macros than to learn both Word and Swriter and then try to visually goad them into doing what I want with the mouse.

I think the OP thought I was joking about emacs. I definitely was not.

I use OpenOffice at work and at home.

Hi Forum


NOTHING will beat gnumeric as a Spreadsheet... NOTHING

As a general office Suite I use openOffice... but the spreadsheet features of OOCalc are frankly inferior to those of Gnumeric IMHO...

BRGDS

Alex

I use OpenOffice.org, because it does everything I need well enough for the lowest price, but I voted for Softmaker Office, because it is way faster, has better compatibility with MS Office, and the diagrams are a lot fancier than with OOo and MS Office.

Another package I like is Applixware. It's still available, and its small and fast, and has some unique features. I liked it a lot several years ago. By today's standards the GUI looks a bit old-fashioned, but it's quite usable nevertheless. More relevant: The compatibility with MS Office is not as good as with OOo and Softmaker Office, and there's no support, at all, for ODF.

But the question was about maximum productivity, and in this category Applixware is excellent!
See here: Vistasource Homepage

gargamel

Open Office it is...hands down winning answer to the question imho

I'd have to say Openoffice too. I got use to installing it on MS machines because I refuse to pay for the MS office suite; but was happy with Abiword and Gnumeric when using Zenwalk (pre- OO.org).

That being said, I really don't have much use for an office suite; in the event I need one, I'd like one I'm kinda familiar with.

For an actual suite? Still MS Office, or I guess that would be crossover office. It is the only one that is actually reliable.