[NTLUG:Discuss] Abiword, Inkscape, Koffice

[Leroy Tennison]

Steve Baker wrote:
> Certainly - I've found Inkscape to be preferable to OODraw - it's a 
> really slick tool.
> 
> Daniel Hauck wrote:
>> Just a quick follow-up:
>>
>> Inkscape is WAY cooler than OODraw.  It is just more powerful... at
>> least it feels that way.  In many ways, it can rival the gimp for
>> illustrations and stuff and it has a lot of polished features.  OO Draw
>> might have some good stuff in it too, but I didn't see it right away.  I
>> saw right away what Inkscape had to offer, however.
>>
>>
>> Daniel Hauck wrote:
>>   
>>> I rather like OO.o if only because it's very platform independent. 
>>> Being able to run OO.o on Mac, on Windows and Linux makes doing some 
>>> kinds of work rather nice.
>>>
>>> Abiword really looked like MS Word.  Koffice I have no idea about... I 
>>> don't like KDE for one really stupid reason -- I don't like the way it 
>>> feels... okay, more than one stupid reason... I also don't like that 
>>> everything has a K in front of it.  Koffice?  Come on!  Makes me think 
>>> of someone checking me for a hernia or something.
>>>
>>> I've never really used OO Draw and that's for a few reasons:
>>> 1. It doesn't get played with as my distro is Fedora and they don't even 
>>> make a shortcut, icon or menu item for it.  (It is available though... I 
>>> just opened it from the command line)
>>> 2. It seems really simplistic and I'm not sure where a simple drawing 
>>> fits into my work at the moment.  (Perhaps that will change tomorrow?)
>>> 3. For anything graphical, I usually head for the gimp.  Even though 
>>> it's generally over-kill for simple stuff, I can usually polish up some 
>>> nice lookin' turds with it!
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why those things were actually "pulled" from the distros 
>>> you use, but all of those packages listed are available in Fedora 8. 
>>> (Just tested that as I was composing this email and now I'm going to try 
>>> Inkscape out...first time!)
>>>
>>>
>>> Rev. wRy wrote:
>>>     
>>>> gnumeric is gone too.  wasn't that hard to compile, but i had no luck
>>>> with abiword.  gnucash was a pain, but i had to have it.
>>>>
>>>> personally, i don't care for OO, but ended up having to install it
>>>> anyways. 
>>>>
>>>> :(
>>>>
>>>> R
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:07 -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Can someone tell me why these have been dropped from inclusion in the 
>>>>> major distributions such as Red hat and SuSE?  Is it because they are 
>>>>> junk?  Is it just because they "lost" the "market presence" battle?
>>>>>
>>>>> How does Abiword compare to OO Writer?
>>>>>
>>>>> How does Koffice compare to OO?
>>>>>
>>>>> If it is a fair comparison, how does Inkscape compare to OO Draw?
>>>>>
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OO Draw has some nice features.  It is vector-based like Inkscape (but 
not native SVG like Inkscape) as opposed to raster like Gimp.  However, 
after a quick look at Inkscape, I agree that it looks better.  I saw 
some things it had that OO Draw didn't.  However, without doing a more 
thorough comparison I can't say it's better overall.  I did a little 
research and found some links which talked about both.  Inkscape does 
have it's downsides in comparison to Draw.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herring1/oodraw.html

http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Graphics.htm

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?p=205716