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Re:French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free ... by nodata on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @09:34AM (#4575487)
> everyone agrees

So let's see some examples then.

Why is LibreOffice "absolutely dreadful"?

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Re:French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free ... by bitwize on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:54PM (#4576602)
So let's see some examples then.

In GIMP, where are the layer groups? The nondestructive editing?

These are basic tools to a professional workflow.

And don't get me started on CMYK. You cannot do prepress without CMYK support; GIMP was going to get it Real Soon Now for the past ten years and it's still not there.

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Re:French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free ... by jeltz on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:19PM (#4576761)
The reason for why no CMYK and why no non-destructive editing is that GEGL development took way longer than expected. Now that more and more of the GIMP core is converted to GEGL I am confident GIMP will eventually get these features.

GIMP is the story of what happens when you wait with new features until "the right solution" is completed. Not that I really blame them since they have very few developers.

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Re:French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free ... by vacri on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:08PM (#4576694)
If you're doing professional work, you should stump for a professional tool. Otherwise it's like complaining that your family car, though ideal for its purpose, is a load of crap because it can't take pallets.
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Re:French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free ... by sandGorgon on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @02:07PM (#4577048)
Excel.

pivot tables and VBA sucks (you may NOT comment on what a horrible language VBA is. )

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Re:French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free ... by nodata on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @03:12PM (#4577427)
So the reason why LibreOffice sucks is: Excel?

I didn't ask which of the programs in the Microsoft Office suite is better than the programs in the LibreOffice suite, I asked why LibreOffice sucks.

Also LibreOffice has Python.

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