Post by: antony on August 30, 2006, 09:21:24 AM
An open-source and fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) - NeoOffice 2.0 has released Aqua Beta 3 for Mac OS X.
- New feature includes:
- No X11 software required,
it's base on Java, and Java is one of the OS X foundation! - Aqua menus
- Integrated with Finder and Mail
- Uses Mac OS X fonts
- Native printing support
NeoOffice is released as free, open-source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and is fully functional and stable enough for everyday use.
NeoOffice homepage
download NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta 3 from official site
Post by: jcarter on August 30, 2006, 11:33:46 AM
I dont have to use it often, but when I do, I sure am glad it exists.
Jane
Post by: gunug on August 30, 2006, 02:08:08 PM
Post by: antony on August 31, 2006, 08:01:36 PM
Post by: jcarter on August 31, 2006, 08:33:29 PM
Thats why NeoOffice is so nice!
Jane
Post by: kimmer on August 31, 2006, 10:00:57 PM
Post by: gunug on August 31, 2006, 10:19:10 PM
Jane - Not to slight the NeoOffice people you can probably read Word Doc's a lot more easily with something like Abiword ( http://www.abisource.com/ ) which is also free. It's much smaller and runs faster on the same hardware. It doesn't include spreadsheets or other things that NeoOffice does but if all you wanted was to read or write Word it's great.
Post by: jcarter on September 01, 2006, 08:06:13 AM
There are so many of these great little programs!
Thanks,
Jane
Post by: antony on September 01, 2006, 09:56:20 AM
QUOTE(gunug @ Sep 1 2006, 01:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I guess you should expect a word processor written in Java to run a little more slowly than one written in a compiled C or something. Otherwise it looks great so far; no lockups or crashes.
That, I won't say so.Unlike in Java Runtime Environment for Windows platform which is a separate plug-in to Windows, Jave is one of the foundation of Mac OS X.
Many people do have an impression that Java applications are slow due to the experience of Java Applets (running under browser).
However, Apple does favour Objective-C as the default language for writing applications for Mac OS X.
Sorry to be off topic.
Post by: Shades of Gray on September 01, 2006, 08:48:45 PM
QUOTE(jcarter @ Aug 30 2006, 11:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
hi Antony, Thank you, this is one nice little program!
Howdy, Jane.
"Little" might be a bit of an exaggeration at 120 MB.
Post by: gunug on September 02, 2006, 03:01:45 PM
Post by: sandbox on September 03, 2006, 08:09:42 PM
I don't see much difference and as gunug mentioned it's slow. If you resize the window the graphics will temporarily disappear as it tries to reestablish itself.
It's still large @ 316.9 mb but a bit small er than the J version @ 337mb and even boosting the memory allotment had no impact or it's speed.
It's still a good program but it's not quite up to MS standards yet. I've used Mariner in the past but it didn't handle some of my files. AppleWorks is still my favorite for simplicity sake text program but I suspect its history.
For inefficiency in business and file translation MS Office is almost a must.
