Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 01:15:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com>, Natasha Hendrick <natasha@baldrick.geoph.uq.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD Message-ID: <199709100615.BAA00468@zuhause.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <19970909084220.38015@lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970908131004.3966A-100000@baldrick.geoph.uq.edu.au> <19970908130810.23848@lemis.com> <19970908093716.18380@panix.com> <19970909084220.38015@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:37:16AM -0400, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > In addition to StarOffice and Applix, which I'd categorize as poor "Word > > clones", > > I just received the September issue of the German magazine c't, which > includes a test of several word processors, including StarOffice and > Microsoft Word. StarOffice gets quite good marks, not as good as > Frame (the winner). Word is disqualified for bugs, but even without > them, doesn't get as good marks as StarOffice. I suspect c't was reviewing the Windows version of StarOffice. I was reading StarDivision's news groups, and one thing that came up was that the Linux version of StarWrite doesn't support additonal Type 1 (postscript) fonts out of their basic set very well. Someone came up with a kludgy method that seems to work (among other things, he munged the .afm files because swrite3 doesn't parse them correctly), but there's no official support for it.home | help
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