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2007-06-05
Finally: A Mac Port of OpenOffice.org!
It's an early alpha version. Nothing polished. Really. It doesn't print, according to the "known issues" list. PDF export's not working correctly. Starting it from a shared folder doesn't work. Copy and paste doesn't fully work. It'll crash after quitting (which sounds wrong even for an early alpha... *after* quitting, really?). Text drawing is weird in most places and doesn't work in Impress. And Impress won't recognise multiple monitors. Plus in some places it's called version 2.3 and 2.2 in others (obviously it's a snapshot of inbetween-work). BUT: It's there for you to download! Finally! No more X11 or Java stuff. (Although it still _looks_ that way very much...) - I guess now's the time to celebrate. Then the hard weeks and months of working on it will follow, until finally, we'll have a decent OOo on the Mac. I, for one, welcome our new opensource office suite overlords.
Comments:
Still looks too PCish to me. I think NeoOffice is still better in terms of looking like an OS X app.
 
yeah, but that doesn't look&feel like a mac app either, because of using java, i guess. i think OOo is on the right way. let's give it some time. :)
 
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