[TriLUG] MS Office and Linux

Janyne Kizer janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu
Thu Feb 14 13:24:32 EST 2002


Well, the problem with WordPerfect for Linux is that Corel has halted
development on the product.  It's a decent product (a bit slower than
StarOffice 5.2 but nice).  The other problem is that it uses it's own
version of Wine and requires some backlevel C stuff.

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> Have you tried PerfectOffice 2000 yet?
> 
> I've been using it on Windoze at a client site and they now have the Linux
> version on order.  So far it seems pretty slick on windoze.  IIRC the Linux
> version makes extensive use of Wine libraries for compatibility.
> 
> Unfortunately the product has hit a dead end on Linux.  :-(
> 
> On the upside it is probably the only decent WYSIWYG editor I'll see anytime
> soon for DocBook/XML.
> 
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