ral Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 I remember back in 2000 or 2001, I tried a 0.9 release of AbiWord and was impressed by the small size of the download and the user friendly interface. I remember reading on their website back than that the plan was to come up with a complete Office suite as an alternative to the MS Office. I quess OpenOffice had done that. And it looks like AbiWord will be relegate solely to a Word Processor with very low system requirements. Too bad though, because those people as Abisource know how to make a more user friendly interface than OpenOffice and the thing is ligth and fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Try looking at gnumeric if you want a proper spreedsheet. Its much better than the toy you get in OO.o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Actually I am pretty happy with OpenOffice. The interface though could use some work. But I wil chek out numeric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 For those of you who have not seen AbiWord yet, here is a screenie of its nice clean GUI: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Can you still get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 abiword still exists, it's just abisuite that you won't see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 If you want to get AbiWord 2.0.6 you will find it here. With KDE/ML10 it does have a problem though. When you highlight something you wont see what you are highlighting (it won't shade or color the laters/words you are selecting). http://norlug.org/~chipster/rpm_handler/ca...norlug.i586.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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