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I really really want to like Libre Office, but I just lost an hour of editing in a document due to some bizarre bug that I can't can now reproduce. And I was saving regularly. Crap, crap, crap.
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+Dan Gillmor I hope you can help the #LibreOffice people to identify the issue. I've been using LibreOffice (and prior to that OpenOffice & StarOffice) for just over ten years on four different OSes. What you're describing is a first, in my experience and it needs to be put to bed fast. Please take a moment to help them understand better what happened & why. -Thx
+mathew murphy, #Scribus is a full-fledged Desktop Publisher. It is great for doing layouts and projects which might require involve prepress processes. I use it for creating letterhead, business cards, newsletters, etc but it's also geared for magazine and book layout.
In short, for papers, essays & letters, Scribus would be a degree or two into overkill range. Unless you're +Lewis Butler ;-)13 Dec 2012
+Dan Gillmor I'm using Google Docs for everything these days. Gone are my worries about saving, not to mention worries about forgetting to take a file from machine A and put it on machine B. The only exception to this scheme is when I fly somewhere. (I've yet to try the "offline" mode in Google Docs. Anybody know if that works as advertised?)14 Dec 2012
+Craig Olofson I've sent the files to a member of the Libre Office team. But for now I won't be using it -- this is a total showstopper bug for me.14 Dec 2012- Thanks, +Dan Gillmor. Wrt showstoppers, understood. Akin, perhaps, to a baby seat which doesn't strap down the baby. That's why a lot of us were gob-smacked by this - we wanna make sure our kids, no matter how prosaic, are safe...
+Ellis Booker, Google's offline is pretty much limited to text docs w/Chrome on MSOS & OSX only. http://goo.gl/c6PnP If you want a kick in the technological pants, try editing online via Android device. Who needs a desktop/lappy/netbook? :-)14 Dec 2012 - +Craig Olofson No Linux support in offline Google Docs? What about Chromebooks, which run the Chrome OS? Anyhow, that's bad. Again, I haven't needed the capability thus far.14 Dec 2012
Google Docs works fine offline in 64 bit Chrome running on Kubuntu 12.04. I just checked.14 Dec 2012
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