>From My experiences for compatibility reasons I have found the new Open
Office to be much better then
Star Office 5.2. Also it handles the formatting of a Doc file much better
without destroying most of the justifications.
I also have had luck with it on a Mac as well as pc and also on the other OS
plattform as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronan Heffernan <ronan@iotcorp.com>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Star Office and Open Office
>Jason Pratt wrote:
>> Ok guys I know this maybe a dumb question but what is the difference
between
>> Open Office and Star Office? Aren't both by Sun?
>>
>> What would you recommend out of Star, Open, or KOffice?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Jason
>
>
>I looked at OpenOffice, and it looks pretty good, but I haven't played
>with it enough to recommend it. I can definitely recommend StarOffice
>5.2! I don't know what I am missing from the new suites (I'll get
>around to it), but 5.2 is powerful and feature-rich. I used it to write
>a couple of hundred pages of documentation for a software package. For
>technical writing, I think it compares favorably with FrameMaker (which
>I hated!).
>
>--ronan
>
>
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