[CS-FSLUG] Abiword

Brian Derr bderr at myrealbox.com
Thu Oct 14 07:29:14 CDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:14:13PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've found OpenOffice.org infinitely annoying in typing up my notes for 
> school, all the "features" such as automatic starting of bulleted and 
> numbered lists to state the biggest offenders are really annoying, that 
> along with the startup time OpenOffice has just so I can type up a few 
> simple notes has left me very inclined to switch to a simple rich text 
> editor. I tried Abiword but after the first time using it I found that 
> the printouts were tiny, the ratio of width and hight are correct for an 
> A4 paper size but it prints out absolutely tiny and I use "Letter" sized 
> paper. I have not been able to change the paper size as of yet since I'm 
> still just learning the user interface but I would appreciate any help 
> with this. I'm using Abiword in Windows right now because my printouts 
> look much better there, in Linux the colours and shades come out faded a 
> little because the driver is probably a little light on the ink.

Abiword is all you need my friend.  Why have an office suite when all
you need is word processing?  :-)

Brian

-- 
The just man walketh in his integrity:
his children are blessed after him.  -- Proverbs 20:7
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