Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-30 06:53, D wrote:

  On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

On 2024-12-29 06:29, D wrote:

  On Sat, 29 Dec 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
 

In comp.os.linux.misc chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

chrisv wrote:

Farley Flud wrote:

The Photoshop lackeys are always the instigators.  They seem greatly
distressed by the fact that some folks do not worship their idol.

 And, golly gee, the free product isn't as good as the expensive
product.  What a "tragedy".

   LibreOffice beats the crap out of anything M$ offers
  these days.

 I wouldn't know.  Both are more than sufficient for my lightweight
use.  Obviously I choose to use the cheaper one.

 I consider both way too bloated, complicated, and slow so choose
other simpler programs like Ted for word processing. In the same
way I haven't touched PhotoShop or GIMP in a very long time since
mtPaint does everything I want. The fact that neither has very
active development is a plus more than anything - when I do want
to try something more unusual it still works the same as it did
years ago when I tried it last, whereas commercial software or its
open-source copies will have changed everything just for the sake
of keeping busy and looking new.

 Another option to libreoffice, for the ones who do not like it is Abiword. Tried it briefly, it worked, but libreoffice always was more than enough for my needs, so I've stayed with it for business use for a decade or two.

 If you're never sharing documents with others and only need to write, AbiWord would definitely be my go-to. I love that little program.

 Ahh... so it doesn't save in easily exportable file formats?

>
I just checked and noticed that it saves in PDF, ODT and DOCX in addition to its own format. However, when I opened a few ODT documents to see how it would handle them, I notice that it failed with the one which included a simple table. I notice that it can produce its own, but I can't fathom why it didn't display it properly here.

Odt and docx are not trivial file formats. You must remember that Microsoft has tried its best to make docx impenetrable to outsiders. Odt I think also has suffered from trying to be compatible with Ms excrement. As a small project I am not surprised that it might have a few bugs here and there when opening those formats.