OFFICE APPLICATIONS
We will install a word processor, a spreedsheet, a pdf reader and an e-book reader.
1. Office suite:
For normal use of office work, LibreOffice is competent enough:
You can either install entire of this office suite or pick out only what you need. I only use two of the modules:
- Calc: spreadsheet application.
- Writer: word processing application.
apt-get install libreoffice-calc libreoffice-writer libreoffice-gtk
The libreoffice-gtk package is for Libreoffice can integrate nicely with the system gtk theme (other wise it will look urgly).
You can choose one from several icon sets. In the screenshot below I am using the “sifr” icon sets:
apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr
Then apply it by changing the “Icon size and styles” (User Interface) to “sifr”, go to Tool > Options > View.
To enable the ability to remember the last working place in your document, you need to fill out your “User Data”. Go to Tool > Options > User Data.
If there is no user identified, every time you open a document, LibreOffice will assume a new user is opening a document and will open it at the beginning.
As a die hard user of spreadsheets, I find Calc is just a standard and for “lite” spreadsheet work only. I am intensively depending on VBA/ GAS scripts (Visual Basic for Applications come with MS office & Google Apps Script come Google Apps). Only Microsoft Excel or Google Sheet can meet my requirement.
LibreOffice Calc
LibreOffice Writer
2. Qpdfview as Pdf reader
As I had some bad experiences with Evince when I was using Crunchbang/ Debian Wheezy (Slow to navigate through a large PDF file, blurry displays of image in PDF file). Then I found qpdfview, quickly open any PDF and render images nicely:
sudo apt-get install qpdfview
In the old version of this website, I recommend Foxit reader (very good indeed!), but is is not native Linux, and need a PPA.
3. Fbreader as ebook reader
apt-get install Fbreader
“Supports popular ebook formats: ePub, fb2, mobi, rtf, html, plain text, and a lot of other formats” (From its website!). It’s also lightweight and very fast to open ebook.
Above is the awesome Quo Vadis novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by Jeremiah Curtin.