Re: OO as GNOME software (topic change)

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Hi Sam,

Yes,  I believe I did this little test back in November.  I'll send you the files on
Tuesday when I'm at the office.  Let me go upgrade my copy of Abiword now!

Cheers,

Bart

Sam TH wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:45:05PM -0800, Bart Decrem wrote:
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > I actually did a non-scientific test on this a few months ago.  I randomly went
> > through my files and took 10 Word documents and 10 Excel documents and opened them
> > up in StarOffice and then in AbiWord and Gnumeric, respectively.  Here's what
> > happened:
>
> First, my contention was based mostly on the fact that there are Word
> documents that crash SO, but don't crash wv (our word importer
> library).  Second, AbiWord has made huge advances in the last few
> months, and comparisons that long ago are likely to be out of date.
> For example, a few months ago, you wouldn't even have seen lists in
> AbiWord.  Finally, wv imports more than we take advantage of (such as
> tables).
>
> That said, however, if you have these documents lying around, we would
> love to have them.  Just let me know what I need to do.
> >
> > I do apologize to the Dom, Jody and the other AbiWord and Gnumeric contributors for
> > not explaining the problems in more detail, and for not filing bug reports for the
> > problems I experienced.  I didn't have a lot of time when I did this exercice and
> > wasn't trying to do a scientific comparison, just wanted to check my instincts.
> > But I did keep the files I used for this exercice, and would be happy to send them
> > to or post them online (I'm not sure if any of these documents have confidential
> > information in them).
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
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