Lotus Symphony Documents - a free alternative to Word
Vindovs / / December 19, 2019
In the market of office applications inflames fierce competition. office suite google Apps already offers Google is competing with Microsoft in other areas. At the front counter as seen Star Office Company Sun (Google it is highly recommended) and OpenOffice OpenOffice.org Community (code based on the Star Office development team). Now, in this war entered its weighty tread of the oldest IT-industry giant IBM: in collaboration with the OpenOffice.org the company released a free office suite IBM Lotus Symphony. The company does not hide his ambitions and began his conquest of the world by three office free instruments included in the package: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Presentations, and Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets.
The names speak for themselves. The first tool is designed to work with text documents, second - for making presentations, the third - to work with spreadsheets. Today we test the Lotus Symphony Documents.
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. Available there are versions for Linux (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5), and Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista). But then do not rush to run the resulting file may get nothing (this is in Vista and I came out), simply unzip it (eg 7zip'om) and start the installation. What immediately liked it: support for OpenDocument formats, IBM Word, Lotus, MS Word 97/2000 / XP / 2003, as well as rtf and txt, of course, as that of OpenOffice, there are export to PDF. The program warns that when you open a non-native file format possible loss, but I have doc and odt files opened as expected. It is like a beautiful, uncluttered interface. Finally, a word processor for Windows began to use the empty space on the right side of the screen, without cluttering the top toolbar. There is an interesting opportunity to see the open pages of small images.By the way, the program comes with tabs, which is useful for editing multiple documents. Functionally, the program is identical to OpenOffice Writer and also rich in features: The app lets you create both basic documents, such as memos, faxes, letters, resumes and merge documents, as well as long and complex documents that include several parts, as well as bibliographies, reference tables and indexes. Can be inserted into a text document images in various formats, including graphic objects. drag and drop feature allows you to quickly and efficiently with text documents, for example, you can drag objects from one place to another in the same document, or between open documents with the preservation Tabakh formatting. Overall, the program has shown its best side. Tight integration with OpenOffice code there will unlikely application to work quickly on slower machines, on my laptop as dual-core application behaved almost perfectly. When working with the program, I got everything I expected from a reliable word processor in a beautiful package.