Re: Gnumeric vs. OOCalc

[Parrenin Frédéric <Frederic Parrenin notos cst cnes fr>]

As it has been said, it depends what your needs are.

If you need to manipulate numbers, gnumeric is better: more functions,
more accurate, significantly better performances, more compatible with
Excel. (Only pivot tables and conditional formatting are missing with
respect to calc as Jody said).

If you need to show these numbers, Calc is still better because it has
more features:
- The charting engine is not finished in gnumeric
- Drawing objects support is also very rough (lines, rectangles, labels,
...)
- wmf images inserted in xls files are not imported
- lack of Rich text formatting inside cells
- lack of support for cells styles
- lack of "follow modifications"
- lack of spell checking
- lack of "split panes"
- lack of text orientation
- rough support of headers and footers for printing

In the long run, it seems to me that gnumeric will be better because it
has more solid fondations (and because its developpers really rock :-)
). But it also depend on the work that will be done on both projects and
it is hard to evaluate...

Regards.

                Frédéric


Le mar 27/04/2004 à 15:29, Jody Goldberg a écrit :
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 07:37:07PM -0400, Brian Chase wrote:
> > Well, I've primarily focused my energies in Linux to server 
> > capabilities, but with the applications growing ever stronger on the 
> > desktop, I've been using more and more desktop Linux.  I am interested 
> > in feedback on the specific comparison of OpenOffice Calc vs. Gnumeric.
> >
> > Being an experienced Excel user, I find Gnumeric a much easier 
> > transition to make, many of the same icons as Excel, things I use alot 
> > like the "sum" button, function button, and $ formatting in particular.
> >
> > Anybody know of good writeups of the two in a face-off?  Google brought 
> > me little in this regard, except for a few kudo's for Gnumeric, similar 
> > to my early impressions of the two as they stack up.
>
> Warning : I maintain Gnumeric and have all the biases you'd expect
>       in that direction.  However, I'm also Canadian so there will
>       be a healthy dose of self deprecation in there too :-)
>
> Gnumeric is significantly better analyticly.
>     - More worksheet functions
>     - More accurate functions (stats and worksheet)
>     - More compatible with XL (array and iterative formulas)
>
> OOCalc implements a few more features, such as pivot tables and
> conditional formating.  However, Gnumeric holds its own with
> diagonal borders, and 64k rows.  Deciding which is more XL
> compatible depends where your needs are.
>
> There have been a few reviews, but they all tend to begin by saying
>     "I'm not a spreadsheet user but ..."
>
> It's my belief that we're a better spreadsheet, but lack the tight
> integration with an office suite.
>
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