Whenever I see people talking about LIbreOffice, I think back to the early days of GNOME of AbiWord and Gnumeric.
While they didn't have all the bells and whistles of LibreOffice, they were a delight to use- fast, easy, and I'd say they were fun too.
Yes, StarOffice was functional and powerful, it was never really *fun*. While I'm glad it was freed and made into OpenOffice, then LibreOffice, I wish the simpler tools had persisted.
#LibreOffice #GNOME #OpenOffice #StarOffice #AbiWord #Gnumeric
@tecnoysoft Tremendo clon del viejo Word 2.0 para Winchot. Lo recomiendo también. #AbiWord
El 1 de diciembre de 1998 se libera la primera versión del procesador de textos AbiWord de software libre y gratuito, multiplataforma. Se usa en GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Windows (inactivo hoy), ReactOS, BeOS, AmigaOS, etc. La última versión estable es la 3.0.5 del 3 de julio de 2021
#retrocomputingmx #WordProcessor #Abiword
@maple #abiword might be what you need. I know it opens Word .doc files, so it must do rtf right? https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord
@itsfoss Sadly we do not have any good lightweight app for word on Linux at all. I can use #gnumeric for spreadsheets and it's fine, but for word documents I'd rather use #atlantiswordprocessor via #wine than any existing linux-native software as they simply suck (yes, I'm looking at you #abiword !) :(
Nuevo episodio disponible:
https://open.audio/library/tracks/422525
#CrónicasDeUnLinuxero #podcasts #podcast #Abiword
Episodio 24: Abiword
@jdkiser I see that the #Abiword #sourcecode has moved to the #Gnome GIT repository: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord
However, there is little active development: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord/-/commits/master/?ref_type=HEADS
@c@digitalcourage.social @BafDyce@chaos.social ja, die habe ich auch beide installiert. Auf meinem Hauptgerät zusätzlich und gerade für ältere/schwächere Geräte sind das super Alternativen, die super schnell und sparsam sind und für viele Anwendungsfälle aber ausreichen.
Das #Gnumeric und #Abiword aber auch zusammenhängen und als "Office-Suite" bezeichnet werden, war mir aber nicht klar. Aber ist es nicht eher von #Lubuntu bzw. #LXDE statt von #Gnome ?
What happened to abi-collab? @nextcloud and @libreoffice still doesn't have a way to collaborate on documents in a full desktop app like Microsoft offers, but #abiword had that in 2009.
@alternativeto I'd recommend #AbiWord instead of #WordPad:
It's a simple, sleek and efficient #WYSIWYG #Editor for #printable #text and works on basically everything, without any subscriptions and offline.
Regarding writing, my sole idea now is to rely on #Abiword to simply write down stuff and lay it out in a very basic way, then give it to a professional to create a satisfying layout for ebook and print.
Regarding computers, I am considering writing down a white paper just for the sake of proposing how to do things differently. Sounds quite dumb and I suppose many people did the same but I keep thinking that we went too far with IT. I wish things could be simpler. Our lives would be improved.
The important thing is to emphasize who you personally are, because working with other developers like this is fundamentally a social choice.
Back in the day, I was leading the #AbiWord project, working alongside a few of my friends. We had a huge pile of work ahead of us, so I deliberately set aside some meaty features as the "Project of the Week" for newcomers to pick up. https://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/September/0097.html
@peotr26 the #OpenDocument standard allows two approaches: the file can be a ZIP archive of XML and other packed content, or the file can be a flat XML file. Maybe #AbiWord defaults to the latter? Try opening the larger file in a text editor - a flat XML file will be human readable. A ZIP version will open in a ZIP compatible archive tool. If both look zipped, then look at the properties (in Ark, File->Properties) for compression ratio - perhaps the two apps compress files differently.
After some digging, I found out that when AbiWord formats an ODT file, it makes an enormous file.
Here, in a million-word document, AbiWord makes the file more than 6 times bigger than when it was formatted by LibreOffice.
Does anyone know why?
I do wonder if #Abiword is at EOL.
I feel that it filled a niche back when it was big - a great lightweight tool.
It helped me write the CV and application that landed me my current line of work...
I remember that for the longest time, it was the easiest tool for inserting and editing tables in any text processor.
