Dyne:bolic includes software to let you easily write and compose any kind of text document: hyper-texts that can be published on the internet (HTML), formatted texts that can be printed (RTF, PDF, Postscript and even the deprecated DOC [1] format).
AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. It is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.
Scribus is a desktop publishing program to compose vectorial formats like PDF and Postscript, it is useful to paginate text in a professional printable form to produce magazines, flyers and most publications that need to mix text and images in pages following customizable schemes.
Nedit is a plain text editor providing syntax highlight for a couple of sourcecode languages, it is intuitive and easy to use for the newbies, but at the same can offer a powerful environment for programmers.
At last, Antiword is a very handy commandline application to convert with a simple command any .doc file into a plain text file, keeping the alignement of the lines intact. For a quick start try it out:
[d:b] ~ #antiword evil.doc > good.txt [Enter]as usual there are manual pages providing more informations on its usage, just type man antiword into a terminal.
In case you need a full blown office suite to satisfy your needs here, there is an Open Office 2.0 dyne module available online for download from our website, you can place it into your Dock modules directory ( dyne/modules/ ) and at next reboot you'll find it in the application menu. With Open Office you can read and write all .DOC files, .XLS spreadsheets, .PPT presentations and more.
| [1] | You shouldn't use the .DOC format for many reasons: it exposes all your previous changes in your documents which can often lead to a privacy problem, it can vehicle dangerous viruses that affect other proprietary systems and it stores your text in a non-readable way which ties you up to the availability of proprietary software. See the extensive document http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html on the topic. However, dyne:bolic is able to read and write all .DOC files. |