To survive as a desktop system, an Operating System msut be able to
perform
atleast one task well: produce documents. The foundation of Microsoft's success in the desktop
market was laid by Microsoft Office & Microsoft Windows. but Linux also includes tools for
producing
documents, manupulating images, scanning & printing. Everything that you expect a publishing
system
to do can be done on Linux. In its arsenal Linux has such powerful publishing tools as
OpenOffice, Groff, LaTeX, AbiWord,
KOffice, StarOffice, etc.
OpenOffice
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OpenOffice is posing a significant threat to Microsoft's dominance
over the desktop market. The
OpenOffice is made up of differednt packages like Writer, Calculator, draw, Impress, etc. just
as
Microsoft Office is made up of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
OpenOffice Writer It is a word processing application
that can work its documents
in file formats from Microsoft Word, StarOffice, etc. Writer also has a ful set of features for
using templates, working with fonts, including images, effects & graphics, and tables of contents
.
OpenOffice Calc It is a spreadsheet application that
lets you incorporate
data from Microsoft Excel & other formats. Some nice featurew in Calc lets you create charts,etc.
OpenOffice Draw It is a drawing application that lets
you add, edit
& align objects, incorporateimages, vector graphics, etc into your drawing.
OpenOffice Math It is a calculation programme that lets
you create mathematical formullaes.
OpenOffice Impress It is a presentation application
that includes several types of slide effects, Using Impress you can save Presentaion in Microsoft
PowerPoint format & other formats.
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