On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:59 -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > I have raved about Linux, but I can't get anyone interested. ---- are you sure that proselytizing is your role? the fact that they continue to use Windows is ok - you need to learn to accept that what may be better for you might not be what they want, need or will use ---- > These people do have a valid point, but only because proprietary > formats are so ubiquitous. ---- some are ubiquitous. I think that much of the usage came from Microsoft virtually giving away their software for years - of course, now, they don't give it away but charge a premium for it and for that premium price, you get a non-transferable, single install and the opportunity to endless repurchase of a minimal use license...people aren't stupid - they will figure out the relative value of this eventually. ---- > I have noticed that, as fantastic as Koffice, Abiword and Open Office > are, Powerpoint presentations don't display properly in them > (sometimes one can get them to display as separate pages, but often > either the text, images, sometimes both, are missing). Also, Excel > files will usually display, but they rarely perform the calculations > from cell to cell. Sometimes a Word document will either not open, or > more frequently, the tables, image positioning, etc are all messed up. > Even editing web pages made with Front Page are a nightmare to edit in > Quanta or Mozilla Composer. The conversions just don't work 100%, > except for the most basic of files. ---- Things are getting better all the time - install the Microsoft core TrueType fonts for compatibility. There are some spreadsheet functions in Excel that no program has duplicated nor can adequately convert. Them is the breaks. Craig
