An alternative for MsOffice? Thread poster: williamson (X)
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williamson (X)
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With Linux (RedHat8.0) as operating system and OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) as Office-suite you can start working without having to pay too much for software.
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Sonja Tomaskovic (X) 
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| I am a Linux fan.. | Dec 20, 2002 |
... however, I had to experience that OpenOffice and MS Office can display documents differently.
I also had problems in creating an OpenOffice file that would look the same in Word - and vv., could not create a Word file that would look the same in OpenOffice.
I really wished these two tools were more compatible, but I am afraid, so far they aren\'t.
If you have a client who is very focused on layout, style etc., he will not accep... See more ... however, I had to experience that OpenOffice and MS Office can display documents differently.
I also had problems in creating an OpenOffice file that would look the same in Word - and vv., could not create a Word file that would look the same in OpenOffice.
I really wished these two tools were more compatible, but I am afraid, so far they aren\'t.
If you have a client who is very focused on layout, style etc., he will not accept documents edited with OpenOffice.
Regards,
Sonja  ▲ Collapse
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| OpenOffice and CAT | Dec 20, 2002 |
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On 2002-12-20 08:41, williamson wrote:
With Linux (RedHat8.0) as operating system and OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) as Office-suite you can start working without having to pay too much for software.
Hello,
are you using OpenOffice with CAT software as well (Deja Vu, Trados or others)? If y... See more Quote:
On 2002-12-20 08:41, williamson wrote:
With Linux (RedHat8.0) as operating system and OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) as Office-suite you can start working without having to pay too much for software.
Hello,
are you using OpenOffice with CAT software as well (Deja Vu, Trados or others)? If yes, how well does it work?
Thank you in advance and kind regards
Mario Cerutti ▲ Collapse
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Michael Tovbin
United States
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And it is a real hassle making OpenOffice undertsnd non-Latin based alphabets, and there is no guarantee that even if you do they are going to be fully compatible with windoze-based software.
Unfortunately, customers mostly work with MS Office.
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Rick Henry
United States
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You can try OmegaT - http://www.marcprior.de/OmegaT/OmegaT.html
I haven\'t played around with it too much, and it uses it\'s own format (not Trados compat), but it looks promising.
R.
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On 2002-12-20 12:59, aliseo wrote:
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You can try OmegaT - http://www.marcprior.de/OmegaT/OmegaT.html
I haven\'t played around with it too much, and it uses it\'s own format (not Trados compat), but it looks promising.
R.
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On 2002-12-20 12:59, aliseo wrote:
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On 2002-12-20 08:41, williamson wrote:
With Linux (RedHat8.0) as operating system and OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) as Office-suite you can start working without having to pay too much for software.
Hello,
are you using OpenOffice with CAT software as well (Deja Vu, Trados or others)? If yes, how well does it work?
Thank you in advance and kind regards
Mario Cerutti
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Marc P (X)
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| OpenOffice.org | Dec 20, 2002 |
Hi Sonja,
>>I also had problems in creating an OpenOffice file that would look the same
in Word - and vv., could not create a Word file that would look the same in
OpenOffice.
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Marc P (X)
Local time: 06:54
German to English
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| OpenOffice.org | Dec 20, 2002 |
Hi Michael,
>>And it is a real hassle making OpenOffice undertsnd non-Latin based
alphabets
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Marc P (X)
Local time: 06:54
German to English
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Hi Rick,
>>I haven\'t played around with it too much, and it uses it\'s own format (not
Trados compat)
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