Subject: Re: Alternative to AppleWorks?
From: Dylan Ward (dylan.@esatclear.ie)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 04:27:03 MST
I am currently using OS X with YDL 2.0. I have used RedHat Linux before
on a PC as an alternative to Windows. At the time I heavily used MS
Office 2000 to do all of my school and work documents, so I also had to
find an alternative to use instead of MS Office. RedHat comes with a
copy of Star Office. It is a worthy office suite and if you are like me
and need to use MS Office as well (for work docs), it can also convert
to and read from MS Office formats. YDL 2.0 and greater comes with a
copy of Open Office which is the open source version of Star Office. I
highly recommend you give it a spin to see if it suits your needs. I
have never used Apple Works before and I cannot tell you how it compares
to it, but I can tell you that Star\Open Office is a sturdy wee program
and worth the time.
Good Luck,
Dylan
dylan.@esatclear.ie
On Monday, December 31, 2001, at 05:45 , Doug Philips wrote:
> I've searched the list, but didn't find anything much from this year
> and little from 2000, which is getting less and less relevant anyways.
> If I've missed the messages on this, please let me know what to search
> for in the archives.
>
> I'm looking to move entirely away from MacOS... I'm currently YDL 2.1
> on my Tangerine iMac and love it. I have a TiBook which is currently
> running MacOS 9.2.2 and I'm wanting to run just YDL on it too. My only
> "dilemma" is that my main use for MacOS, aside from iTunes, is to
> publish several newsletters for local clubs to which I belong.
> AppleWorks 5 was excellent under MacOS 8.6, along with MindGate's
> PrintChef for doing the impositions. When I moved to doing this all on
> the TiBook under MacOS 9, I found PrintChef didn't work... Ok, so I
> handle the impositions by hand within AppleWorks. Unfortunately
> AppleWorks 6 is a step backwards for what I'm doing. I have databases
> for print labels, but I don't see that as a big deal... My concern is
> for doing layout and printing on Linux, esp. on YDL where I had a
> Dickens of a time getting printing to work (I think I might switch from
> lpr to cups, but haven't had time to play with that yet).
>
> Is anyone else on the list doing regular and somewhat non-trivial doc
> production on YDL? If so, is Star Office the way to go, or ???? I'm
> not afraid of doing my own experiments, I just figured that if I could,
> I would rather leverage off of whatever anyone else has learned.
>
> Thanks, and Happy New Year!
> -Doug
>
>
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