The Word document is almost 10 MB, whereas the native OpenOffice format is 1.6 MB. It even seemed to handle the indexing and table of contents OK.Īnother interesting result was the size of the document. It appears that there were tiny things here and there, but at this point my assumption is that, if you are creating documents in OpenOffice 2.0 and working all the time with it, you'd probably be able to deal with those. It opened Thinking in Java, fourth edition and the formatting was nearly perfect.
So I naturally assumed that OpenOffice 2.0 was going to be a similar experience, and I was rather amazed when it wasn't. Previous versions of OpenOffice were the only things I had experienced that could even open one of my book documents without crashing, but the formatting was always trashed by the time they were done. My books are Word documents, formatted for camera-ready output. In addition, there's the challenge of converting from Word. In fact, I had kind of given up on ever seeing an open-source tool that could do it. But for me, it's not even worth thinking about getting cozy with a product unless it can deal with a book. Give a go, it's free so you've got nothing to lose.Admittedly, a book is about the most challenging thing I can throw at it, so maybe it's not fair for those who are just typing a memo or letter or report now and then. If anyone knows me then I'd be happy to let them have a copy from the CD images (although I'm unable to provide these by post).
You could even ask a friend to create a copy for you ask it's all allowed in the license. You can get completely free by downloading from Download Central, or cheaply buying a copy of the CD from distributers. For example if you have the Microsoft Office Home Edition, then you may well want to get a copy of, either to replace it or run alongside as it will add the presentation application "Impress" and the Database "Base", of which the Microsoft equivalents are only available on the more expensive versions of Microsoft Office. The Office Suite includes all the functionality you'd expect and much more than some alternatives. I've not had time to test it thoroughly yet, but it looks good so far. I've downloaded and upgraded my Windows version, but not yet on my Linux computers. I've already praised the office suite on the blog, including the Get Legal - Get free office suite campaign. Yesterday marked the 6th birthday of, the free office suite available for Windows, Linux and Mac computers.
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