Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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I've used Open Writer to write my masters thesis as well... Mainly because parts of it required me to do code both under Linux and Win32... When I was done with writing the Linux part I switched to Windows and much to my surprise the length of the pages (ie. the number of lines per page) in the Windows version of Open Writer increased as compared to the Linux Open Writer version... Needless to say I was greatly disappointed, since that messed up most of my paragraph formatting, etc... When I use a utility that claims to be cross-platform then I expect it to work EXACTLY the same on each of the supported platforms... This obviously isn't the case with Open Writer as it rendered the same document differently (there may have been various reasons for this happening, like windows version not supporting the fonts I used and substituting them with some other fonts.... but no matter what the reason is, this is not what a common user seeks from using cross-platform software)...