The first document and graphics tools for Linux were mostly built on older,
text-based tools. Recently, more sophisticated tools for writing, formatting
pages, and integrating graphics have been added. Despite their age, many of
the older publishing tools (such as Groff and LaTeX) are still used by people
in the technical community.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Using OpenOffice.org
Using KOffice
Using AbiWord
Taking documents from
Windows to Linux
Creating documents with Groff
and LaTeX
Creating DocBook documents
Printing documents with Linux
Displaying documents with
ghostscript and Acrobat
Working with graphics
Using scanners driven by SANE
Working with Words
and Images
This chapter examines both text-based and GUI-based document preparation software for Linux,
and discusses tools for printing and displaying documents, as well as software for working with
images.
If you??™ve been using Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint, this chapter shows you how to work with your existing files or create new
ones using Linux tools, such as the utilities in the OpenOffice.org suite.
Using OpenOffice.org
Some have called OpenOffice.org the most significant threat to Microsoft??™s dominance of the desktop
market. If a need to work with documents in Microsoft Word format has kept you from using
Linux as your desktop computer, OpenOffice.
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