From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 13:37:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA7516A4BF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0367C43F75 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2638 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1A840g-0006IT-3l; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:37:14 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:33:57 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-145.acuson.com ([157.226.46.145]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id TRYRDL4A; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:33:01 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Martin Kotulla , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:36:00 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3F85BD66.4010808@softmaker.de> In-Reply-To: <3F85BD66.4010808@softmaker.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310101336.01196.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1A840g-0006IT-3l*w1LWF6KAv9.* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: TextMaker for FreeBSD now also supports FreeBSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:37:29 -0000 On Thursday 09 October 2003 12:56 pm, Martin Kotulla wrote: > As previously said, I am very interested in all kinds of feedback on > TextMaker for FreeBSD. I doesn't pop up instantly, as some reviews have said, but its certainly is speedy. Much more so than OpenOffice. It handles the Word documents floating around work just fine. It handles Word docs with tables better than OO does. I still need to sit down with it and do some real-world document creation with it, but from what I can see so far, it's a bargain for $50. I would use it instead of AbiWord, and if it does everything I use OpenOffice for, I will probably buy it. One wishlist: left/right pages (or page styles) would be extremely useful for double sided printouts that need to be bound. David p.s. I'll still keep OpenOffice though, because I need the spreadsheet and presentation software at work. p.p.s. Does purchase of the software allow installation and usage at both home and work by the same individual?