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Offline gunug

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« on: June 18, 2015, 12:42:35 PM »
It's interesting that a firm in England is now offering an Open Office for $10 at the App Store when it's free as in beer everywhere else:

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LibreOffice is already available for download from the web so what value does does the App Store bring it to? As Meeks told me, "Clearly bringing a big chunk of Free Software to the App Store and making it easier to install should (I hope) improve uptake, and ultimately (we hope) increase our developer base working on improving LibreOffice for all platforms & distribution channels. Luckily some large percentage of the code - say 95%+ is common to all platforms. Of course, it's great to get more Open Document Format users out there too."

http://www.itworld.com/article/2935631/ope...-app-store.html


A little later I went and looked and found out they offer a "LibreOffice Vanilla" for free at the Apps Store.  That's more like it!  rolleyes.gif

After installing it under Mac OS 10 on my Macpro I found out it opens an ungodly number of file formats (Clarisworks or Wordperfect anyone?).  I think I may prefer it to Pages which I also have on this machine; and I apparently wouldn't need to boot up the older stuff on the MAC 10.6 partition anymore!
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2015, 02:03:53 PM »
I went to app store to check it out, and was surprised to see that NeoOffice is there for $29.99!!! eek2.gif I've never been a fan of NeoOffice and have always run OpenOffice—all the while longing for the days of Word 5.1a.  laugh.gif

I'm intrigued enough I paid the $9.99 for the fully supported version of LibreOffice and find it pretty slick. I used to donate to the OpenOffice, so I don't mind the $9.99 price tag. I'd sure balk at the price for NeoOffice—way too pricey, imho. wink.gif  Thanks for the heads-up, gunug.

For those who don't want to visit the app store, here are 2 screen caps that will give you the info on LibreOffice paid vs NeoOffice paid:

LibreOffice
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NeoOffice
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2015, 02:34:46 PM »
I think that NeoOffice, at least the early versions, was a Java based version of Open Office and kind of unstable because of that fact.  Is this still true?  I haven't used NeoOffice for a number of years but have been using LibreOffice and maybe, sometimes, it would be good to have a little more support for it with some complication or another!
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2015, 11:18:19 PM »
Pages is not a word processor, like Word, Nicus(sp?) Writer, xyzOffice. Pages is a PAGE layout app with a few dozen basic text formatting options and templates.
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« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2015, 01:51:29 AM »
We found LibreOffice a great help when we doing the legal stuff for moving house. We used an online conveyancer so everything done on line - they emailed us the forms to fill in, then we emailed back the completed paperwork. Only mailing work was the occasional paper that needed a "real" signature.

Initially, we had problems because the docs arrived as MS Office and while OpenOffice did open them, it lost the formatting and presented us with a screwed-up mess.

Downloaded LibreOffice - free from the developers' site - and it opened them with no problems. Very useful and a lot, lot cheaper than buying MS Office smile.gif
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2015, 07:41:04 AM »
All this reminds me about "winmail.dat" files that come form Outlook user who can't/won't send us plain text messages. There's an app, TNEFsenough, that will display them (which is usually nothing more than the plain text copy of the message..  doh.gif ). However, there is at least one web site that can be helpful, also. Had to find a way to get an RTF attachment that wasn't showing in the message.
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2015, 07:30:57 PM »
Okay, not very happy. After having to recover my entire documents folder, today I went to launch a TextEdit doc and LibreOffice opened. I had to right click on the doc and tell it to open with TextEdit. Now I'm going to poke around in preferences so that this app doesn't take over everything.  dry.gif
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2015, 07:52:44 PM »
You only have to do a "Get Info" on any .txt or .text document, select the "Open with..." List, select TextEdit, and click the apply to all (can't remember the exact text). You're done. One document. One dialog. You''re one &  done! tongue.gif

Now, bee hapie! wink.gif
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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2015, 07:56:53 PM »
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Jun 19 2015, 04:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You only have to do a "Get Info" on any .txt or .text document, select the "Open with..." List, select TextEdit, and click the apply to all (can't remember the exact text). You're done. One document. One dialog. You''re one &  done! tongue.gif

Now, bee hapie! wink.gif

That's what I did. I still am hoping for an answer on my disappearing documents. wink.gif
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« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2015, 06:13:08 PM »
OK, back home, yard mowed...

Open iCoud System Prefs. Click the "Options" button in the iCloud Drive line. You will now see a list of "Apps that store documents and data in iCloud..." Disable any and all that you do NOT want to be stored in iCloud. Click "Done".

To be sure nothing ends up in iCloud Drive, UN-check it's box. You will get a absolutely horrible, terrifying, stupid message when you uncheck the iCloud Drive box. It will tell you that "If you turn off iCloud Drive, all documents stored in iCloud will be deleted from this Mac." WHAT?! rant.gif Apple is claiming ownership of any document you store on their drives?! Not only that, but they will find any of them that are also on your Mac and delete them?! wallbash.gif

I've never seen this actually happen, OTOH, I always make sure anything that accidentally got INTO iCloud has been copied back or is still on my Mac. Better safe than depending on Apple to know what they are doing, especially if they start telling you they will delete stuff on YOUR drives!

While in this Pref, you might as well disable anything else you do NOT want touched/sent/seen/read/lost? by iCloud.
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« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2015, 08:07:23 PM »
Xabd, I answered your comments in my other thread in hopes of keeping it all together.
http://www.techsurvivors.net/forums/index....st&p=204033
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