Could you elaborate on why LibreOffice is so much worse than OpenOffice? I use LibreOffice mostly for opening documents, or making some spreadsheets, so I have no idea what you're talking about (I mean, I'm no poweruser, for any serious documents I use TeX).
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday August 26, 2013 @08:37PM (#44681859)
I don't have a stake in this on either side, but I run LibreOffice on Fedora at home and sometimes look at work pptx files. They rarely render properly, text is the wrong size and overlapped, embedded images are missing. It might be a problem with our corporate template, some of the objects that are inserted, whatever. But it is not useful to me for viewing work presentations.
Incidentally, while on vacation this summer I found google docs couldn't render them right either on my iPad... I had to ask people to send me pdf's to comment on them.
Keeping OpenOffice Trademark a disgrace (Score:0, Troll)
We all know that the License was chosen to placate IBM, but really it needs to given to the LibreOffice Developers. Anything else is stupid.
Re: (Score:-1, Troll)
As a user, who finds OpenOffice to be a far superior app, I shudder that your hope might come true. LibreOffice is [expletive soup] crippleware.
LibreOffice team: please quit and join Apache OpenOffice.
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
Could you elaborate on why LibreOffice is so much worse than OpenOffice? I use LibreOffice mostly for opening documents, or making some spreadsheets, so I have no idea what you're talking about (I mean, I'm no poweruser, for any serious documents I use TeX).
Re:Keeping OpenOffice Trademark a disgrace (Score:1)
I don't have a stake in this on either side, but I run LibreOffice on Fedora at home and sometimes look at work pptx files. They rarely render properly, text is the wrong size and overlapped, embedded images are missing. It might be a problem with our corporate template, some of the objects that are inserted, whatever. But it is not useful to me for viewing work presentations.
Incidentally, while on vacation this summer I found google docs couldn't render them right either on my iPad... I had to ask people to send me pdf's to comment on them.
Guess I should have bought a surface!