Final Version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Released 57
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."
This will address your needs. (Score:2)
Re:This will address your needs. (Score:3, Insightful)
Apple X11 clipboard (Score:3, Informative)
Hmm. As far as I can tell the clipboard works just fine. Selecting text in an application will make it the PRIMARY selection and it can be pasted with the middle mouse button in to other X11 apps.
Using an X11 apps copy feature will place the selection into the CLIPBOARD buffer which will make it available to all applications (including Mac ones).
In GVIM you can do this by prefixing your commands with "+ (quote plus). As in 4"+yy or Vjjj"+y or "+P or "+p among others. With GNOME and KDE apps you simply
Re:Apple X11 clipboard (Score:1)
I've managed to get X11 apps to copy and paste decently between normal OS X apps and other X11 apps, but I'm afraid that I can't get it working with my Matlab plots. Anybody know how to do it? I admit that I haven't tried for very long (I was in the middle of a project and didn't really have time to play with it forever)
Re:Apple X11 clipboard (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Apple X11 clipboard (Score:2)
That's not quite what I'd need though.
The thing is, PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD are two different beasts. You can select text (which incidently makes it PRIMARY). You can copy that text (which often means copying PRIMARY to CLIPBOARD, but not if some other application has since taken over PRIMARY). You can select text in another app if you haven't done so already (making it PRIMARY) and you can then paste the two selections independently. Clipboard via the usual paste and PRIMARY via the middle mouse button.
Re:Why not just pirate MS Office? (Score:2)
Re:Why not just pirate MS Office? (Score:1)
Re:Why not just pirate MS Office? (Score:2)
*on a default install of Windows ME, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Xp, Mandrake 8, MacOSX when I just click the next button and then start it up cold.
woohoo (Score:1)
I'm using my Mac only for web compatibility tests, but it's good to see that M$ gets more and more under pressure
Selling points? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Selling points? (Score:4, Informative)
However, I wasn't able to use the last beta for my work, simply because it didn't support the number of features that I required for working e.g. version tracking, embedded tables, full bullet point customisation, spacing between bullets etc. It has some of these, but doesn't pplay the same way as office, and in this company I can get away with using a Mac, but for presentation purposes, I need to play the same unfortunately.
If there was one thing I didn't like which I couldn't forgive it for was that you had to set all documents the same size - at least - I couldn't find a way to set them differently.
Still. having said that I have downloaded this latest version, and will again see how well it works. The IT guys want to get rid of Office (purely for the licensing), and are waiting for OO to be possible as a replacement..
Re:Selling points? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:Selling points? (Score:3, Informative)
No. It's slightly better than Office '97, although 1.1 looks like it should be quite a bit nicer (and hopefully the OS X changes can be merged with the 1.1 changes without a huge amount of effort). The real problem with OOo is that it is a Win95 app in terms of look and feel, and so will be quite alien on a Mac, and to quote Greg Lehey (FreeBSD core developer) 'OpenOffice is not a good example of the UNIX way.' so it looks a bit out of place.
For
What about native aqua? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What about native aqua? (Score:5, Interesting)
Unfortunately... (Score:2, Flamebait)
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:2)
I mean c'mon really, all you're doing is changing the appearance, NOT the behavior.
Someone with the dev release of Panther respond! (Score:3, Interesting)
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:Someone with the dev release of Panther respond (Score:2)
Re:Someone with the dev release of Panther respond (Score:2)
Well good (Score:2)
Re:Well good (Score:1)
The Day of the Apple? (Score:2, Funny)
Whoa! In the last 24 hours:
Damn cool. This is one of those days when I feel especially proud to be a Mac user.
Re:The Day of the Apple? (Score:2)
Hell, I just plopped down $1999 for a PowerMac, and I don't really care to waste a few hundred more on Office. OpenOffice it is.
Re:screenshots (Score:1)
which is better (Score:2)
Re:which is better (Score:2, Informative)
I would choose OpenOffice -- StarOffice is Sun's own blend of OO.org. I find that OpenOffice tends to work more 'smoothly' and it has a better presentation program than StarOffice. Not to mention that you have to pay for StarOffice 6.0.
Re:which is better (Score:1)
Unfortunately... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:2)
Your assumption about OpenOffice not being worth much until Apple's X11 hits version 1 is wrong.
I've been using it for a couple months and it's excellent. No crashes or other bad things.
Your hang-up is with the "beta" label... I share your grief. Nowadays, many developers use alpha/beta/release version names correctly.
Let me state this for the record: If you release it, it's not beta.
Quit sucking on that lemon and try it before condemning it.
I need to print (Score:3, Insightful)
However, I'm not sure that I can consider the MacOSX port of OpenOffice as "usable" until it has the capacity to -print- the documents I create in it.
An Aqua/Cocoa port would be great, but right now, I just want full functionality.
Re:I need to print (Score:1)
-- Funksaw
Re:I need to print (Score:1)
I just kept trying to configure from the preferences within OO...
Thanks Mr. Teague!
Re:I need to print (Score:2)
Then rejoice, for OOO under X11 can indeed print. I think there may be some inkjets that have driver issues (Epson?) but I've used it to print very nicely to two Postscript laser printers (HP4000, Brother HL1470N) and even to PDF.
If you're complaining about the NeoOffice "Flaming Yeti" build, then yes. This is an in-progress Cocoa port. The X11 build has been the focus so far. Now they should
Re:I need to print (Score:1)
Re:I need to print (Score:1)
I use it full time with Windows (Score:1)
I decided to use OpenOffice and its gotten better and better with each version. It is now up to 1.1 beta 2 on the Windows side, so the Mac version has a little catching up to do. It is excellent, although it has so many features that it is
after years (Score:3, Funny)
OO 103 (Score:2)