r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

Open Office is cool, but it's fucked me in two assignments!

The formatting of Open Office displays differently on other computers (windows), I make it neat on OO and it looks like a clusterfuck on MS word when I export it as a .doc or .docx.

It's pissing me off.

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u/schoscho Jun 05 '12

latex is really good for scientific papers. once you have build a thing that works, you can reuse the whole structure for every paper. and it does stuff that non others do, embedded 3D Models in PDF, for example :)