[CS-FSLUG] Abiword
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Thu Oct 14 10:05:16 CDT 2004
At 11:14 PM 10/13/04, 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.
Several others have already mentioned that those "annoying features" in OOo
can be disabled. Another good one to disable is 'Printing sets "document
modified" status'.
I don't use Abiword, but on several systems (Windows and Linux), I've found
changing paper size through system printer properties the best place to
change default paper size. Some software (OOo included) does store such
information in the actual documents, so changing the system setting would
only affect new documents. You may need to change it in two places for
existing documents.
I've noticed OOo 1.1.3 opens/saves documents quicker than previous releases
(on Windows, haven't had a chance to test it on Linux yet). Quickstarter
helps a little, but first access to OOoWriter after reboot still takes
longer to load than subsequent documents. YMMV.
Frank
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