Re: [Fsfe-uk] AbiWord

[Ian Lynch]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 18:37, John Seago wrote:
> I have used AbiWord up to, now to read and print Microsoft Word documents, 
> I, going by its home page, took it that having translated FROM Microsoft 
> Word, it would do the reverse, see the following from its home page: 
> 
> "What Makes AbiWord Different?
> 
> AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully 
> cross-platform word processor. 

OpenOffice.org Writer aspires to the same so its not unique on that
count alone.

> Our source code is carefully written so 
> that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of 
> time spent on porting. This combined with our support for 
> internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives 
> AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

As with OOo Writer.

Abiword has some advantages in being separable from the other apps and
presumably its smaller and will run on lower spec machines. Bu t do keep
in mind that in terms of file format OASIS is the most likely common
denominator with a chance of getting mass take up to displace .doc.
-- 
Ian Lynch <address@hidden>
ZMS Ltd