No, really.<\/p>\n
I have recently been constructing a 100 page document going over a whole bunch of the details for the Monorail we’re building at Burning Man this year.<\/p>\n
Apart from randomly freezing, and then suddenly not displaying images until I had restarted it – it’s also really slow.<\/p>\n
The last straw was when leafing through the document before getting it printed. I had inserted a bunch of pages before this last section. But now, there was this empty page in the last section of the document.\u00c2\u00a0 The part that I hadn’t touched for days. If I tried to remove the blank page, all the images on nearby pages moved so that they were on top of each other.<\/p>\n
I ended up just printing it. There is a blank page that I can’t get rid of.<\/p>\n
It is a piece of software that worries me. Is this really meant to be an alternative? It has NEVER worked well for me. Basic tasks sure, but I continually find myself pining for Word 5.1a on the Mac (System 7 that is) or Nisus Writer or even ClarisWorks.<\/p>\n
If opening Microsoft Word documents fairly accurately is your only good feature, how do you expect to survive in the free (software) world?<\/p>\n
So, while my twitter stream may suggest desires for punning the developers in the face or their early demise through painful methods….. I really just wish that sometime in the past 10 years you had made it not shit me to tears.<\/p>\n
Certainly another failure of Sun Microsystems and I don’t expect Oracle to do any better at all (especially considering recent actions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No, really. I have recently been constructing a 100 page document going over a whole bunch of the details for the Monorail we’re building at Burning Man this year. Apart from randomly freezing, and then suddenly not displaying images until … Continue reading