If you spend any amount of time creating documents, graphics or organizing data into reports or visual presentations, drop whatever collection of tools you use and put the Calligra Suite to the test. The Calligra Suite is a forked set of office tools for the KDE desktop that branched off the stalled KOffice suite. However, you do not have to run the KDE environment in your Linux distro to get this intriguing advanced office suite. It runs on any desktop flavor.
Everything seems just great but for me there's still one deal-breaker.
I tried switching from Libreoffice Writer to Calligra Words. Sadly, anti-aliasing is just awful. Honestly, fonts look bad with anti-aliasing on and off, with hinting and without it. I found some article proposing turning the hinting off. I mean, really? It's anti-aliasing along with great hinting that make fonts like Ubuntu, Times New Roman, or Dejavu display so nice (in the entire desktop environment; not including Calligra, of course).
Anyway, just set one of these fonts in a document, and compare how it's displayed in Words and Writer. The difference is ridiculous. So for me, who works mainly with text, there's really no contest. But then again, it's this one thing that bugs me, so I'm willing to try again when this is fixed.
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Calligra 2.8 Is Too Sweet for Words Alone
Posted by: Jack M. Germain April 3, 2014 04:51 PMIf you spend any amount of time creating documents, graphics or organizing data into reports or visual presentations, drop whatever collection of tools you use and put the Calligra Suite to the test. The Calligra Suite is a forked set of office tools for the KDE desktop that branched off the stalled KOffice suite. However, you do not have to run the KDE environment in your Linux distro to get this intriguing advanced office suite. It runs on any desktop flavor.
I tried switching from Libreoffice Writer to Calligra Words. Sadly, anti-aliasing is just awful. Honestly, fonts look bad with anti-aliasing on and off, with hinting and without it. I found some article proposing turning the hinting off. I mean, really? It's anti-aliasing along with great hinting that make fonts like Ubuntu, Times New Roman, or Dejavu display so nice (in the entire desktop environment; not including Calligra, of course).
Anyway, just set one of these fonts in a document, and compare how it's displayed in Words and Writer. The difference is ridiculous. So for me, who works mainly with text, there's really no contest. But then again, it's this one thing that bugs me, so I'm willing to try again when this is fixed.