On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 23:38 -0800, Roger Luedecke wrote:
Frankly, I keep running into too many anomalies in LibreOffice vs. MS Office. Though I could run Office through Wine, I would rather have a native solution. I googled it to death, and couldn't seem to find anything.
I make up a monthly newsletter for a non-profit group to which I belong. I have tried for several years to convert to some software which I could run on linux, in favor of using WinSomething and MSOfficeSuite. I have tried to use each of the various Office Suites available for linux, and they all seem to come up short. Softmaker Office seems to be the best I have used, but even it comes up short when I start to make up the cover page graphics. I have posted bugs on the LO/OOo problems that still aren't fixed after a couple of years of waiting. I do have Office 2000 installed with Wine, but it is a little flaky and just isn't reliable enough for me. I have tried crossover office in the past and it wasn't much better than Wine. Maybe it has improved by now. Adobe Acrobat 6 installed in Wine in the past, but it won't install now with the present Wine. So I can't use the Wine installed programs to make up the newsletter in MSOffice then convert it to pdf for emailing. My best solution so far has been to install WinXx in VirtualBox, with guest extensions so that I can use it full-screen. I use Office2000 and Adobe 6 in that virtual machine without a hitch. Not exactly Linux, but at least I am not selecting Windxxx in the Grub list of operating systems. The WinXx disc I have wouldn't install in my computer after I have upgraded the motherboard and cpu for the second or third time anyways even after slipstreaming new drivers. Besides, WinXx and the Office2000/Acrobat 6 is getting to be pretty old software. They do install in VirtualBox without a hitch, and run fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org