Author Topic: NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha Beta 3 released (Read 2797 times)

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.

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

and more.

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

jcarter · « **Reply #1 on:** August 30, 2006, 11:33:46 AM »

hi Antony, Thank you, this is one nice little program!
I dont have to use it often, but when I do, I sure am glad it exists.
Jane

gunug · « **Reply #2 on:** August 30, 2006, 02:08:08 PM »

I'll have to wait until tonight to download this because the school districts bandwidth is kind of non-existent right now!

antony · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2006, 08:01:36 PM »

I am very happy with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

jcarter · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2006, 08:33:29 PM »

But I think you have to purchase Office for Mac. And if I need a translation for some .doc info that a friend sends me, I would not really need it, if I can either make .pdfs out of them, or fire up NeoOffice if they are more complex.
Thats why NeoOffice is so nice!
Jane

kimmer · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2006, 10:00:57 PM »

Took *forever* ... but I finally got it downloaded. Super spiffy.

gunug · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2006, 10:19:10 PM »

This version of NeoOffice runs almost as slowly on my G4/400MHz Powermac as the previous version ran on my G3/300MHz. 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.

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.

jcarter · « **Reply #7 on:** September 01, 2006, 08:06:13 AM »

Hi Gunug, That looks great! I will add it to my list of TS recommended goodies right now.
There are so many of these great little programs!
Thanks,
Jane

antony · « **Reply #8 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.

Shades of Gray · « **Reply #9 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.

gunug · « **Reply #10 on:** September 02, 2006, 03:01:45 PM »

I was told by one of my departments programmers that Java was slower due to interpreted nature and to the slowness of its "garbage collection" routines; that is the routines tasked with recovering space in memory that is filled with memory variables that are no longer needed. I have worked as a xBase and C programmer but that was an aeon or two ago; but what he said sounded plausible.

sandbox · « **Reply #11 on:** September 03, 2006, 08:09:42 PM »

I've had Openoffice 1.1.2 and neoofficeJ for some time and they’re great free programs. I've downloaded the new Beta and find it still lags far behind MSOffice in some areas like the writers tools/thesaurus and found the scroll arrows don't work.

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.

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