Final Version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Released

Ant writes "After two years of work, OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11) is golden master and ready for immediate download by all Mac OS X users. This release marks a major milestone. It uses the Unix standard X Window and takes advantage of the immense wealth of open source material. To name but one feature, fonts are anti-aliased, making documents look smooth and clean and wholly professional. If you use Mac OS X there is no reason to wait. This will address your needs. And, as with all in the OpenOffice.org 1.0 family, this free release reads and writes Microsoft Office documents and works freely in heterogeneous environments where one might find Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X machines working side by side. The next step is to finish the Aqua version."

Someone with the dev release of Panther respond!

[amichalo]

The key here is that with the (development) release of Panther [apple.com], with integrated X11 [apple.com] client released (currently, X11 is Beta 3), will Open Office also enjoy an integrated clipboard, new Font Book [apple.com], and other (as yet to be named by this author) features that limit the adoption of said orphan (huh?) office suite?

If someone attending WWDC who was given the developer release of panther (and high quality, brushed metal, $129 retail value kaleidoscope [apple.com]) would let us know ASAP, "that would be great".

Office Space, the poor man's lite beer

Re:What about native aqua?

[EricHsu]

I'm using a beta of OOO (not the latest). Apple X11 lets you take X11 clipboards and paste to the Mac side. OOO had a bug that limited the clipboard to 255 chars, but I think they are working on that. There is another little issue with creeping windows in Apple X11, but overall I'm quite pleased with it. It's the only program I've ever used that comes close to decoding the (criminally obfuscated) MS Office formats. I think the interface is really clunky, but not more so than the Office that they are cloning.

Re:Apple X11 clipboard

[hmccabe]

The key to this would seem to be an Input Manager bundle. I'm not sure how they are programmed, but I have a utility called Cocoa gestures that interprets mouse gestures ( similar to a feature in Mozilla, I hear ) and passes events to the current application. If something like that were to monitor for the third button to be pressed, then pass the paste command to the application this would give you paste in Cocoa apps, but not, like you said, in Classic or Carbon apps.

Re:Selling points?

[1010011010]

Here in our Microsoft-ridden office, I use OpenOffice to recover corrupted Word documents for others. We all love it when Word creates files it can't read back in.