NeoOffice has arrived at vowe's magic flying circus
by Volker Weber
For the first time ever, I have a version of OpenOffice on the Mac, that I could live with. NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua looks and behaves like a Mac application. So far I have been happy with Microsoft Word, but I will try and work with NeoOffice Writer for now. Since I don't want to end up with documents that none of my other editors can read, I will not be using the standard Open Document file formats though. This may change when others request I use them.
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Good choice, looks really good, I replaced my MS office for Mac with NeoOffice, because this is only Universal binary code.
Cheers Marco
Since I don't want to end up with document that none of my other editors can't read...
Wie war das noch mit der doppelten Verneinung?
LOL. Das war ja dreifache Verneinung. :-)
I am using NeoOffice for more then a year now and it works absolutely fine. The only obviously non-mac style features are the dialog-boxes for saving and opening files. They look and behave strangely Windows-like. The other quirk one has to live with is the very slow launch of NeoOffice.
I like the style and format features of OpenOffice/NeoOffice, which are much neater and easier to use then the thousands of sub-menus in MS Office. I love the PDF saving, which is very convenient and fast compared to competitors.
Ah, great, I have been waiting for this release for quite a while. I have to admit, though, that I keep switching between NeoOffice and Openoffice. NeoOffice seems to be slower on my 12" Powerbook compared to Openoffice, but on the other hand I don't need to start the Xserver (which I only need for OO and the GIMP).
As for file formats, I am fine by creating every document in the standard Openoffice format and save them as *.doc or *.pdf whenever needed.
Moritz, the beta uses OS X dialog boxes. Which not only looks nicer but also solved my biggest problem with Neo/OpenOffice: Neither of those was able to open files stored on my central server. With NeoOffice 2 beta, this finally works as expected. Also, the time needed to launch NeoOffice isn't really a problem on my MacBook. On the iBook on the other hand, the latest Alpha I've been using still takes bloody ages to launch ;)
Ahem, Volker, I guess a request for using ODF here doesn't count, huh? Since I am keen on experiences with the ODF, I thought I might give it a try... ;-)
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