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OpenOffice.org Team Releases Version 1.0
DenialS writes: "Congratulations to the OpenOffice.org team! Version 1.0 of the open office suite has been released. I'm downloading it now; I've had good luck with the previous stable builds. Release notes haven't been posted yet, so I can't say what the major differences are between 1.0 and the previous stable build, 641d, but I'm looking forware to finding out!"
And for the record is is *not* written in java ok :-)
I sometimes write stuff
I showed my windozw friends open office (they all use MS office) and they where well impressed, so much so that one of them is using it on doze now. Congrats to the OpenOffice team!
OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
Global Community Builds Full-Featured Office Suite With Revolutionary
Momentum
May 1, 2002 - The OpenOffice.org community (www.openoffice.org) today
announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 1.0, the open source,
multi-platform, multi-lingual office productivity suite available as a
free download at the OpenOffice.org community website. OpenOffice.org
1.0 is the culmination of more than 18 months of collaborative effort by
members of the OpenOffice.org community, which is comprised of Sun
employees, volunteer developers, marketers, and end users working to
create an international office suite that will run on all major
platforms.
OpenOffice.org 1.0, which shares the same code base as Sun's StarOffice
[tm] 6.0 software is - like StarOffice 6.0 software - a full-featured
office suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft
Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers software freedom, enabling a free
market for service and support, while the Sun-branded product,
StarOffice 6.0 software, offers 24x7 fee-based support and training for
consumers and businesses, along with deployment and migration services.
StarOffice software also offers additional features, such as a database,
special fonts and Sun quality and assurance testing. The two office
suites complement each other, meeting the varying needs of consumers,
open source advocates and enterprise customers.
"OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers fed-up
with Microsoft's desktop monopoly," said Eric Raymond, co-founder of the
Open Source Initiative (OSI). "With Sun moving to a full service and
support business model for StarOffice software, users around the globe
will continue to have a free office productivity software tool through
the OpenOffice.org open source community."
The OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite features key desktop applications -
including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing
programs - in more than 25 languages. In addition, OpenOffice.org 1.0
works transparently with a variety of file formats, enabling users
familiar with other office suites, such as Microsoft Office and
StarOffice software, to work seamlessly in the application. The
OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple
platforms, including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris [tm], Windows and many
other flavors of Unix.
OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project with more than 7.5
million lines of code. To date, more than 4.5 million downloads of
earlier versions of OpenOffice.org 1.0 have taken place. With the
release of the 1.0 version, the OpenOffice.org community expects that
number to grow significantly as businesses and individuals around the
world explore the free alternative to proprietary office suites.
The OpenOffice.org Community
In less than two years, the OpenOffice.org community has grown to more
than 10,000 volunteers, working together to build the leading
international office suite that will run on all major platforms and
provide access to all functionality and data through open-component
based APIs and an XML-based file format. Sun initiated this effort by
donating the StarOffice software source code and engineering to the
OpenOffice.org community. One of the major benefits of community-based
development is peer review, which has resulted in a stable, secure and
flexible software package.
Participants in the Community work on projects ranging from code
development to porting and localization, to bug reporting,
documentation, product marketing, local language sites and mirror
sites for software download.
"There are many important roles that volunteer developers can play to
shape the future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are
looking for someplace to contribute, OOo can use you," said Kevin
Hendricks, a key contributor to the OpenOffice.org community since its
inception nearly two years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer development
teams for both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and PPC Linux port
projects.
"When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of code
with a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot of time
and effort to reach a critical mass of community participation," said
Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, CollabNet. "The project has now
attracted a significant amount of outside involvement, some of it in
pretty interesting areas like marketing and quality assurance. With the
release of 1.0, it's clear those efforts are bearing real fruit.
Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun -- for making this
happen."
CollabNet's SourceCast application enables both centralized and
geographically distributed software development teams to collaborate on
OpenOffice.org projects and to track them accurately. SourceCast is the
premier Web-based collaboration environment, which includes an
integrated set of software development applications. CollabNet also
provides strategic advice on open source issues and the growth of
OpenOffice.org, and offers analysis on current trends within the
community.
"OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project right
now," said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project. "Because
people will try it and see they can get everyday work done without
giving more money to Microsoft, they'll see -- in a low-risk way -- that
open source software can work for them and be an even better solution."
About OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community
of developers, users and marketers responsible for the on-going
development of the OpenOffice.org 1.0 product. The mission of
OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading international
office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to
all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an
XML-based file format. Additional ports, such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac
OS X are in various stages of completion by developers and end-users in
the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in C++ and
has documented API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open
source licenses.
About CollabNet
CollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative software
development by combining a Web-based software application with a suite
of consulting services. Using these solutions, customers can collaborate
on development projects within an enterprise, with customers, business
partners, or with third party developer organizations, such as industry
specific or open source communities. CollabNet enables corporations to
reduce costs and increase revenues by bringing different project team
members together, regardless of their location. CollabNet is currently
working with customers ranging from hardware and software providers to
companies from industries such as financial services, wireless, and
pharmaceuticals. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software
Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information,
see http://www.collab.net
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer[tm]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to
its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware,
software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more
than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
© 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, StarOffice, Solaris and "The
Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Anybody have a list of the mirrors? Especially mirrors in the USA (if they exist!?)
..some time visiting thier website:
"Q: How was OpenOffice created?
A: It was written entirely in Java."
That is from thier own FAQ, you sould be more careful.
[1]For high-accuracy nuclear bomb simulations, particle interactions, that sort of thing.
Anyway, there's a press release available on the mailing list (and assumedly somewhere else). From what I gather from glancing over it, it doesn't contain any useful information, but maybe someone can extract something out of it or pass it on to his boss.
The release notes are available too. There's no changelog as such, but it says
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Does any one know of a way to convert office 95 files into something that could be used by either star office or open office.
,The only way I can convince
My company has a large mailing list of customers stored in office 95
my company to switch to linux is if we can use some sort of office suit which can access these files.
does any one know of anything which would fit my requirments ? I looked at open office before and I do not think it does.
_________________________________________________
As usual. I don't suppose anyone has a list of mirrors?
Star/OpenOffice opens office 95 documents.
I sometimes write stuff
It avoids the piracy issue, promotes open source, and avoids another Microsoft Tax.
Winners all around
Just need to go through the application and set the defaults from Metric to English, changed the default fonts to arial and times roman instead of the default Thorndale, etc. just for document compatibility. Also set the document save default to MS , since most folks will get caught by surprise otherwise first time they try to share a doc.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
download
Screen shots
List of changes
Marketing flyer
From Q&A section:
Q. Is OpenOffice.org 1.0 100% Microsoft Office file compatible?
A. As Microsoft rarely publish their file specifications, no-one can answer that question. However, there are plenty of users who regularly edit and exchange documents, spreadsheets, etc with Microsoft Office users without any problems. Indeed, some users claim they've seen bigger compatibility problems moving between versions of Microsoft's own products.
Q. I've just saved a file from Microsoft Office in OpenOffice.org format, and it's much smaller - yet it hasn't lost anything?
A. Good, isn't it?
Q. Has this suite got that annoying paperclip?
A. No. Never has, never will. No. No!
Testimonials
Timeline
Credits
Not wishing to be flamebaitey, but can Open Office print under Linux yet? I remember when the Star / Open split happened, Sun kept hold of a lot of the proprietory printer code.
If so, what printing systems does it support? CUPS?
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Hello. I am the CTO of a new technology consulting company. Due to the slow down in world markets, I am sure you can all appreciate that initial investment has been low. Due to this, we are currently investigating our options for IT infastructure.
Dave, our systems manager, has suggested that one option may be to run Linux. However, we all have very little experience with Linux, and Dave insists that he is too busy to explain. I have noticed that he tends to spand a lot of time at this website, so I am turning to your good selves for some advice. Would Linux be a suitable system for us to use? Will we be able to send email and faxes with Linux? How about printing? Out of all of these, printing is the most important to myself, as I like to keep a hard copy in case I need to fax it to someone, so printing has to work.
Finally, Dave has said that he can get his hands on some Microsoft Office CD's, and we could run it under something called "Wine". Does anyone have any experience with this?
Many thanks!
A working mirror - well, *still* working: planetmirror
if you use a good enough junk-filter, slashdot.org will display a single, *blank*, page
here
and
here
Here's some characters to get past the filter. And some more. And some more.
Check this Google cache of the Open Office Mirrors Project website. Not as convenient as the direct download links from the fontpage, but definitely a start.
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Now the only thing missing to the office suit domination is the Mac release.
I can't wait to see it.
I use Mac/Win/Linux machines and a real cross platform office suite would be a great improvement!
As the website appears to be /.ed at the moment, to save load on the download server is it possible to download packages to upgrade from 641d?
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
As posted below, there's also a Google cache of the Open Office mirror list. PlanetMirror is painfully slow, at least for me.
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Nope it's down also, don't click it. Don't even waste your time on it. I checked it's down =)
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Google has a list of mirrors for OpenOffice:u ters/Software / ffice_Suites/OpenOffice.org/Mirrors/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Comp
Enjoy!
Does any one know of a way to convert office 95 files into something that could be used by either star office or open office.
Have you tried just opening them?
does any one know of anything which would fit my requirments ? I looked at open office before and I do not think it does
In what way does it not?
Which is better, StarOffice or OpenOffice? This is ridiculous, I watched the first post come up on this news item and already the site isn't responding!!
Hacking the Network
Log in on Terminal Server, and let the 'quickstart' come up (the butterfly by the clock).
Log in ANOTHER Session (with the first one still up), and you will not be able to start OpenOffice in that session. Every OO componant you start will appear in the first session. Not being very useful if you left a session open at work, and are logging in at home.
But hey, it's free, and it works!! So I'll just kill the first session, because I'm administrator. :) (but that should be verified because end-users wouldn't be able to do anything about it.)
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
google directory of mirrors. theres defianatly some that work there.
http://www.nedrichards.com
See this list of mirrors. It's the google cache of the original list of mirrors. I'm downloading from the Dutch mirror at the moment.F ah_clJsC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Vzn
I was watching Flash Gordon recently on Sci-Fi, and now for some stupid reason whenever I try to browse a site that's been /.'d my mental soundtrack (everyone has one of those, right? right??) goes "Slash...dotted!" to Queen's refrain of "Flash...Gordon!"
:)
I just wanted to pass that on in the hopes that some small percentage of you will be driven nuts by that from now on like I am
I looked and connot find OSX support,
With all the new Apples shipping on OSX wouldnt this be a great product for them ?
Every person I know that is/has bougth a iMac G4 whatever has also purchased MSOffice X.
It cant be that hard to port, can it ???
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:W15GmmXoe7sC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en
Or just click here.
Call it karma whoring if you like, I just think that the more people that use the mirrors and get this great Office app the better.
.haeger
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. -- Harlan Ellison
http://ftp.rediris.es/ftp/mirror/openoffice.org/
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working link.
In what way does it not?
Note he said he "looked at" OO - that's exactly what he did, he looked at it, saw the price and thought, nah, that can't be good.
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This is my impressions of 1.0 so far:
:) (Actually an Access replacement would be nice...)
It renders my old MS Word 2000 files correctly, even with some pretty advanced tables and stuff. I'd say the import filters are certainly good enough for 95% of all users out there.
Load time (measured with clock in hand): 5 seconds (without the program preload and that tray stuff), on my Thunderbird 800Mhz, 256MB machine. It still wants a lot of memory, but otherwise it's in a completely different class than the old Star Offices, performance wise.
It's free, it's good, it has a quality spell checker, what more could I possibly want?
GNOME 2.0, KDE 3.0, Mozilla 1.0, Open Office 1.0 (or SO 6.0), it's all coming together nicely IMO. And you can't beat the price.
There is even support for Basic in OpenOffice!
It's pretty good, although the documentation could be better.
Oh well, just look for examples on the web.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
It is partly written in java, it _requires_ java to start the build process.
Ive tried to compile openoffice on 3 seperate occasions using only free software (as packaged by debian), unfortunately ive never managed to compile it.
As far as i know there isnt a JDK thats free and capable of compiling open office.
Can I crack open an access file in this? I don't see a dB solution in it.
Why such the large difference between binary sizes? The Linux version weighs in at ~ 66.6MB, wheras the win32 comes in around 48.9MB. I usually find the oposite to be true with linux v. win32 binaries.
Until recently, I had been running Win2k on my Toshiba laptop due to a need for good presentation software (heck, when you work for the US Air Force, it is either Powerpoint or you don't do your job...). Well, the need to do some web/sql development pushed me to put Source Mage Linux on the ol' workhorse. Needless to say, I needed some presenation software.
Enter OpenOffice. I had looked at Koffice, but I didn't want to run a full blown desktop environment (currently, I am running X 4.2 with E) and the dependencies to get Koffice up were huge. I had read about OpenOffice and was pretty pumped that would be the solution. I had no idea.
As I said above, Powerpoint was my main concern, but to a lesser extent, Excel since I import a lot of spreadsheet activity into my presentation. So, I get OpenOffice installed and I pull out my last ppt file from a recent meeting and go to work. First thing I noticed is that it takes OpenOffice a while to start. I am not quite sure what to contribute this to, as my system is a Celery 650 with 192 meg of ram. Once it has been loaded, though, it appears to be cached since it starts very fast there after. Next, it loaded my Powerpoint file, something from Powerpoint 2000. It takes a little while, something that doesn't really surprise me since I have quite a few Excel tables imbedded in the show. After about 25 seconds, it is up.
The first thing I notice about the presentation is that it looks great! In presentation mode, the slides are clear and the text is even anti-aliased. Doing a side by side comparison with my XP machine, I was actually more impressed by the Impress display. Great job there. Next, I went to one of the many Excel objects and double clicked it. Boom, it loaded the Calc object in the presentation and I was able to edit the spreadsheet like Powerpoint/Excel. Too damn impressive.
What else do I like.... hmmmmm:
- I like the fact that what ever OpenOffice app you are in, you can open up any document. Very cool
- My Word documents look as good in OpenOffice. Very nice.
- The desktop thing is gone. Thank God...
- I am sure there is more, but I have just started playing...
If you can, go and help out these people. It is good stuff...Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
...it was so slow!
:-)
Now the Google box with the cached page seems to be slashdotted as well.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Which one should I download for linux? The install file or the solver file? They're both huge, and I can't get to the instructions at openoffice.org. Oh, and I'd love it if someone responded asap so I can get to an unburdened mirror site quickly.
Courtesy of good ol' Google:
Sunsite.dk HTTP, Denmark -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Qkaka HTTP, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Utwente HTTP/FTP, Netherlands -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Planet Mirror HTTP, Australia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
VLSM HTTP/FTP, Indonesia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
E4A HTTP, Italy -
English and italian binaries.
Edumail HTTP, Belgium -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Giganet HTTP, Hungary -
Mirror with sources, binaries.
GD TU Wien HTTP/FTP, Austria -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stud FHT-Esslingen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
3Way FTP, Hong Kong, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
RWTH-Aachen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
PWR Wroc FTP, Poland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Sunsite Cnlab-Switch FTP, Switzerland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
CHG FTP, Russia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Mirror AC HTTP, United Kingdom -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Unam FTP, Mexico -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stardiv FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
Thanks OpenOffice team!
Why do you think I said "still"? :-) ;-)
Anyway, I finished my download at 4kb/s, down from 65kb/s for the first 25Mb or so - but it went ok. I learnt from past mistakes and didn't post the link until I was 90% with my download.
if you use a good enough junk-filter, slashdot.org will display a single, *blank*, page
This release will probably do more to promote open source software than most people think. Up until now not having a solid suit of MS Office applications on Linux was the real barrier to most users and/or forced people maintain a Windows installation. As much as I dislike the MS machine, they do create great applications. But with OpenOffice I think it will be much easier for people to make the switch off of Windows.
The problem:: One of the big complaints about moving to OSS is that people insist that they need to be able to exchange MS Word documents with other people around the country. Now, I hate sending or receiving Word docs when typing the text in the email would work just as well, but some people seem to only communicate by sending Word docs as attachments. Of course, OpenOffice can read from and write to Word format, but natively it writes to its own open format, and its a hassle to constantly save-as just to send a document as an attachment.
Solution: develop a mail server module that uses OpenOffice. When a mail going out of the network has an OpenOffice word processing document attached, the module automatically creates a version of the document converted to MS Word and adds it as an attachment. Conversely, mail coming into the network automatically converts Word->OpenOffice adds the attachments. By default, documents sent internally in the network (for some flexible definition of "internally") are not converted. A nice added touch would be to allow users to have their own settings on when conversions should be done. They could set users or entire domains who don't get conversions, choose to have documents substituted instead of added, etc.
Miko O'Sullivan
Now to rewrite it from scratch...
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
Happy International Labour Day! May Microsoft be dismembered, its pieces sold off, and its file formats opened forever.
Is it possible that the recent release of SOT or SOTO offfice, the Open Office clone spurred the Open Office group to get it out? When I downloaded SOT office I wondered if Open Office would rush to minimimize the number of people getting hooked on SOT office before they were finished.
I do security
I've played with OO a bit over several betas and did have stability problems (on both MS and Mandrake 8.1). I'm excited to try 1.0, since I'm very bullish on the format even if the execution hasn't worked perfectly for me so far.
.ps formats I think.
By far the number one feature I would like to see added is a "save as PDF" which is as efficient as Framemaker. When I try the procedure outlined for windows (download a Postscript driver from Adobe, print to file, and use Ghostscript to convert), I get unbelievably huge files, as opposed to smaller files. It would also be nice to have a PDF target with links which is impossible going through
What is everyone else's number one requested feature?
Dara (hmmm - have to learn how to start a new thread)
Personally, I have been using OpenOffice (v 0.641) on NetBSD for quite a while now and I have only good things to say about this extraordinary piece of Free Software.
I would like to know, though, whether support for/integration with one or both of the important free desktop environments (KDE, Gnome) is planned, or already in 1.0? Also, does the new version have anti-aliasing, and if so, do I need Gtk 2.0/Qt 2.3? The OpenOffice website seems to be slashdotted, so could anyone please answer these questions for me?
Yes! Besides the fact that OpenOffice will open MS files, there is an excellent AUTOPILOT function which will batch process all of them and turn them into StarOffice/OpenOffice files. I transferred about 400 old MS Office documents this way in a matter of minutes -- and the documents stayed perfectly formatted. Check it out.
Last time I remember Microsoft was the one using "free" to kill Netscapes position in the browser market. Maybe we are looking at OSS to do the same and proving itself to be not a single bit better than MS, when will the target be companies other than Microsoft that also happen to make profits and money on the new commodity called software that should be supposed to grow on trees and be free for all of people on earth?
Many people ARE working as software engineers for software companies. Take a look at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos110.htm#employment
Computer programmers held about 585,000 jobs in 2000. Programmers are employed in almost every industry, but the largest concentration is in the computer and data processing services industry, which includes firms that write and sell software.
I'll bet US$100 that Microsoft is bombarding OpenOffice's servers with requests...both to keep them offline AND maybe to learn something in the process :-)
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Just wondering... 'twould be nice. A nice, relatively simple (use PAR files), easy way to spread it around.
Along with all the talk of mirrors, performace, bugs, etc., we all need to make sure and thank the following people:
- StarDivision, for creating StarOffice in the first place.
- Sun Microsystems, for buying StarDivision and opening the StarOffice source code.
- Everyone who worked on the development of OpenOffice, coders, testers, web admins, and so on.
- All the government, business, and educational facilities out there who continue to mirror the files for us all to download!
These people have done a great job providing the open source community with one of the best apps out there. No matter how much we bitch, moan, and flame, remember that we only care because we love what you do so damned much!
In linux, just setup a postscript printer within oo, and print your doc to file. Then run ps2pdf using that file as input and a pdf name as output.
Was the focus problem under Gnome fixed?
Which do you prefer? Anyone notice which suite is the most MS compatible? Im not really a big time office suite user, so i just wanted to know what the serious office users think.
...worthless for schools with a large mac investment (like the one i work for).
i know mac os 7.6 through mac os 9 aren't easy ports, but we have macs around that will never run os x, yet will still be in active use 5-10 years from now. it's just the way things have to be for cash-strapped schools.
right now, m$ office and appleworks are the only viable choices. appleworks is out because it's not cross-platform. an oss alternative for all our old, crusty macs would be great.
an upgrade route available from SO5.2?
Blog
I just upgraded to 641d THIS MORNING!!!
hate when that happens.
The difference between Theory and Practice is greater in Practice than in Theory.
Ok I don't know what the hardware requirements are to run OO, but strikes some business types could knock out
pre installed linux pc's with Open Office already installed on second user equipment for little more than the cost of the Microsoft Office 'tax.' I'm sure stuff like this really sell Linux to joe public now...
For some odd reason, in earlier versions we never really had full control over our default margins. One thing that may help a bit is .../spadmin. This will allow you to change your default paper. For some reason it is set to A4 instead of US Letter. I don't live in the US, but still. In the previous stable version, you can now finally have equal margins all the way around.
I don't know what version 1.0 is like. I hope that what I said helps you guys.
testing out my trending skills
I haven't had anything to do with OpenOffice so far. I just now decide for the first time to go there and download it, turns out it's now 1.0 and it's been Slashdotted.
Thanks to Slashdot for the links.
How I wish that there were filters available for wordperfect and Quattro pro. I'd really like to be able to import my files and templates. If I could, I might do the migration from WP Office 7.0 for my business work.
------- Mark
I wonder whether M$ would prefer us to pirate OfficeXP or avoid it alltogether and get OOo..
Oops, sorry, there appear to be some broken links on that last mirror list, should've checked them all I guess.g es/OpenOffice/ (de, fr)p enoffice.org/ (de, fr)n esia FTP ftp://sapi.vlsm.org/openoffice/win32split/c e.org/
Here's what looks like a more authoritative list, from Google's cache of the 641d build page:
Australia FTP/HTTP - http://planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/
Austria HTTP - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/office/openoffice/ (de, fr)
Austria FTP - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/office/openoffice/ (de, fr)
Belgium FTP - ftp://openoffice.vosberg.be (de, nl)
Belgium HTTP http://www.edumail.be/index.php/static/openoffice (de, nl)
China P.R. HTTP http://office.qkaka.com/ (All listed localizations)
Denmark HTTP http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/openoffice/(da)
Denmark FTP ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/openoffice/ (da)
Finland HTTP http://www.kongogroup.com/openoffice/oo.asp (fi-only?)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/ (de)
Germany HTTP http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/ (de)
Germany FTP ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packa
Germany FTP ftp://openoffice.tu-bs.de/OpenOffice.org/641c/ (de, fr)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.o
Germany FTP ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/ (de, fr, es, sv, pt, zh-cn, zh-tw)
Hungary FTP/HTTP http://office.fsf.hu/letoltes.html (hu)
Iceland FTP ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/OpenOffice
Iceland HTTP http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/OpenOffice
Indonesia HTTP http://sapi.vlsm.org/openoffice/win32split/
Indo
Italy FTP/HTTP http://openoffice.e4a.it/ (it)
Mexico FTP ftp://mirrors.unam.mx/pub/OpenOffice/
Netherlands FTP ftp://borft.student.utwente.nl (nl)
Netherlands HTTP http://borft.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/ (nl)
Netherlands HTTP http://niihau.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/ (nl)
Poland FTP ftp://ftp.openoffice.pl/ (pl; NOTE: please use an FTP client program if your browser doesn't download the files)
Spain FTP ftp://ftp.cyberfenix.net/pub/openoffice(ca, es)
Spain HTTP http://ftp.cyberfenix.net (ca, es)
Spain HTTP http://ftp.rediris.es/ftp/mirror/openoffice.org/ (ca, es)
Spain FTP ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/openoffice.org (ca, es)
Sweden FTP http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/ (sv)
Switzerland FTP ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/OpenOffice/ (de, fr)
U.K. HTTP http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ny1.mirror.openoffi
U.S.A. FTP ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/openoffice(Linux only)
hey.
. rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/OpenOffice/1.0.0/
i made/in the process of making a mirror here:
http://sage.che.pitt.edu/linux/sunsite.informatik
i believe i have the linux files. the sun and windows will be there shortly.
enjoy
-- john
http://www.gardena.net/benno/openoffice1.0/
One of the most useful things I found in StarOffice, was the ability to search for regular expressions, or to write formulas (like vlookup or sum.if) using regular expressions. I understand there were part of what got "left behind" when Sun decided to open the source code, for whatever legal reasons.
Previous versions of OpenOffice (up to 641D) didn't have that functionality (despite appearing to have it, as checkboxes and other options would indicate).
Any of the lucky few getting through the mirrors could confirm wether they fixed this? Otherwise is back to wating for StarOffice6 for me...
What is the deal with the fonts? They are friggin ugly! I assume it's just my system, but I'm using the default XFree86 fonts. Does it simply look like crap with the default fonts?
Every other program I have looks just fine, but with OpenOffice all the fonts look terrible, the menus are nearly unreadable.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
you should install ttf fonts :)
Then it will look fine
Granted, I'm not a serious user of Word, but in my limited experience, RTF preserves all the formatting for most regular documents, and it works with word processors that don't handle Word files (like AppleWorks on my wife's old iMac).
I would love to have a filter that watches for Word documents, checks to see if they use any of the weird features that RTF doesn't support, and if not, converts them to RTF.
(*) RTF: "Rich Text Format"
I'm downloading it now, and as soon as it finishes I'm making it available via Kazaa (The lite version, which is something else I have available for download)
Windows will be available first, mainly because my work machine runs Windows, and I'll be using it first.
My default file associations at work and home are to open Word and Excel docs in OpenOffice. I don't even use MS Office unless I need to run some VBA macros embedded in the file.
This means I can open e-mailed Office files with impunity! Mwhahahaha (And yes, I do know how to tell the difference between real Word files and files with a myfile.doc.exe style filename)
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Maybe now that it is actually out, even though the name was official over a month ago, people will stop referring to it as OpenOffice 6.0.
Goannae no dae that? (Don't do that).
Firstly, OpenOffice does an excellent job of importing and exporting MS file formats, but the file formats are still secret and proprietary, so OpenOffice will not do a perfect job.
Secondly, if you're sharing documents then unless all parties AGREE to use DOC as the format to use then it is extremely rude to expect others to be able to read a proprietary format, no matter how popular it is.
Until the day dawns that Open/StarOffice files are the standard then stick to text, html, rtf or pdf for sending out documents.
The months are just too short. I can count the number of days on one hand.
Since I had trouble getting them after downloading, here they are:
OpenOffice.org MD5sums
2002-04-30
24b64e79509f4e6b4e458fe35f82c762 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
4e64260ed39c81e895551364e25d3258 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_solver.tar.gz
f29b608ebc5512401f3c315475f4593c 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_install.zip
67bf15ac86aaf3a09e334661d4cbe49e 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_install.tar.gz
f5dbcf74a3b025280a2afd3e5913da16 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_source.tar.bz2
e40dfc192a7b963ea998619425316057 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_source.tar.gz
6e96524d13a76e612715ab95f9607b68 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_solver.tar.gz
a1b2339eeb66f0cacdbf878464c05628 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_solver.zip
The link appears to be slashdotted already, as it produces an error page on my browser.
Btw, something I don't understand about the slashdot effect. If slashdot can take all of these users who MUST have come to slashdot before following the link, how comes th sites to which slashdot links crash when slashdot users go there?
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
In less than two years, the OpenOffice.org community has grown to more than 10,000 volunteers,
I would be really interested to know more about this. If anyone from OpenOffice can comment I'd love to hear you.
How many external contributors actually make significant contributions? How many people (that don't work for Sun) are paid by their employers to contribute to this project? What proportion of new code (or documentation or whatever) comes from non-Sun people?
I personally believe that Open Source represents a much superior development model to the way Microsoft uses, but I would like to hear how effective it is on this project.
At least to me, having a good mail client is an important part of an Office Suite, but OpenOffice 1.0 is lacking. Is there something that I can use instead of MS Office that is pretty powerful? Also, are there any free/open source clients that interact well with Exchange Servers? (required for work). Thanks.
What?
MS Office almost doubles the price of a low price computer. In any business setting, you have to have it.
.doc-monopoly will never be broken by someone making Word-clones that reads the format almost perfect. Sorry....
.doc-format. There are plenty of good reasons for saving your documents in XML-format instead of a proprietary, binary format. .doc.
Having an office suite that can read 95 percent of all Word documents is the first small step in overcoming this monopoly, but it is not enough. Even 99 percent compability is not enough. The cost of Office is high, but not so high that you risk having some of your documents destroyed.
The
Here is the only way to brake the monopoly(that I can think of):
* Attack the weaknesses of the
* Develop 1 - one - XML-based document standard. Here is the most important small step that OO is taking. Now we have to convince AbiWord, KWord ++ to use the same format 100 percent.
* Start making plugins for Word that reads this format. Plugins that can be installed with one click if somebody recieves a document in XML. And plugins that allows the administrators to decide that this XML-based format should be default instead of
Then you can introduce other programs that reads this format perfectly.
Previously you could run "./setup -net" under linux to install a shared copy of the binaries to somewhere like "/opt/OpenOffice". This does not seem to work now as the permissions appear to be incorrect after the installation.
Am I missing something or is it bust?
The Open Source community needs to be more aware of the power of the subtle use of language. Simple words can be a very effictive tool in changing the mindsets of Joe Public. Marketeers do it all the time.
When talking about OpenOffice with Joe Public, be sure to use appropriate descriptive words.
"I see you're still using traditional software on your computer, Bob. Don't you know that stuff is susceptible to Microsoft Outlook viruses? Have you tried Openoffice? It's free! It's free because it is developed using a leading-edge development method that's superior to the old-fashioned way that Microsoft develops software. Microsoft software is expensive because the conventional methods they use to create it are inefficient. That's why there are so many Microsoft viruses around. There aren't any OpenOffice viruses. Why don't you give it a try?"
I was reading the news on the Open Office site, and noticed the "Bugs and Issues" link. I clicked on it, and it gave me the following message: "Error occurred while accessing content."
;)
I'm still going to grab the new version, but I'm not sure it's a good sign that their bug list has bugs
Maybe, maybe not. I had no problems with 641D, but with 1.0, OpenOffice is NOT rendering my TTF fonts in anti-aliasing (or most anyway...clearly something ain't right).
./spadmin, then click on fonts and point it to your windows/fonts directory. Hope you have better luck than me.
But for those who want to try...in console, in the OpenOffice directory, run
One thing it desperately needs is to allow an option to store in the default, XML based format, but to also append to the file a clean copy of the text. This is because if you have nothing but a simple text reader at hand, you should be able to look at the document. This was possible in old MS formats and wordperfect formats (provided you don't do things like "track changes"). Granted, I could save everything in text only, but for the most part, I want all of the formatting options. Perhaps a tool could be created to "uncompress" the default format so that you have just the plain XML.
I think mozilla mail makes a fine email client, and it seems more appropriate to for mail to be linked with your browser rather than your office suite.
Evolution is great for contact management and calendaring. Unforuntately, i can't test it because they do not make a win32 version.
It's still missing an email-program and a calendar.
...
:-)
Granted, when compared to Outlook, it's only missing one thing, but still
Okay - so I don't need to have those two functions embedded into the office program, but I would rather not be without them, and I'm somewhat sure, that the rest of my office wouldn't either.
Here's what I need:
1) A calendar function comparable to Outlook, preferably one that isn't dependant on a specific platform (ie. Windows, Linux, Mac OS et al). This means the ability to include/invite other people in/to meetings and to view other peoples calendars.
2) An email function comparable to Outlook, again, preferably one that isn't dependant on a specific platform. Support for multiple accounts and Usenet would be a boon.
No, the programs don't have to be free, neither as in beer or speech, they just need to work, be cheaper than Office and safer with regards to vira etc.
Preferably the two/three mentioned programs/functions should be integrated into one program.
Suggestions are more than welcome
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
My fonts look great. maybe you should install some more fonts on your system? I would recommend installing a bunch of truetype fonts.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
mozilla makes a fine mail program that works with pop3 and imap, and I imagine it's only a matter of time for it can talk to http: mail servers and possibly exchange.
They also have a calendar feature, but it's still in the alpha stages... it can't as yet talk to calendaring servers.
Celeron 600, 320megs Ram with Redhat 7.1.
Thinkpad 600 (P2/266) with 288 megs RAM and RH7.2
same Thinkpad 600 with Gentoo linux.
No printing subsystem installed, I rarely, if ever, print anything.
Installing 641d in my home dir and running soffice, the splash screen shows up, then the system wants to sync my address book, which I don't have one. Hitting cancel on that dialog the main window freezes hard. Only a kill -9 from an XTerm gets rid of it.
Installing OO in -net mode and then running setup to place the stub in my home dir, soffice complains about not finding /usr/local/openoffice641d, even when it's there.
This behavior has occurred on all three setups. The two Redhat setups had Gnome and KDE2, the Gentoo setup has no Gnome and full KDE3.
I ended up deleting it. Searching back through the mail archives I could find no reference to this type of error, but it's now occurred for me on two boxes with three different dists.
Any ideas? Could the lack of CUPS or lprNG be causing it?
I could never get 641d (or c) to work properly on my MDK8.1 system. It always coredumped.
Is 1.0 more stable than 641d?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Hey Eugene, is that a line from "Darwin's Black Box"? It looks awfully familiar, but I don't have that book in front of me right now ...
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
FORTRAN
COBOL
Perl
Visual Basic
Logo
Sanskrit
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Last time I used Star Office, it was version 5.2, and it choked on several functions and graphs. Does anyone know how comprehensive the conversion is? For example, what percentage of functions are available. Are custom functions handled at all? Do charts reproduce acurately?
See, for example, TOM Conversion Service seems to get the most linkage.
Miko O'Sullivan
Maybe the error was not really an error, but caused by the complete overload of being Slashdotted.
Binaries for Win32/Linux, and the source, can be found at http://earth.hotrecruit.co.uk/openoffice/1.0.0
Is there any integration with GNOME/Bonobo in this release? Given that Sun is touting GNOME 2.0 as their desktop of the future, StarOffice/OpenOffice should be able to integrate with it.
Thanks
Raghu
there are debian packages available finally, but this is only for version 641d
my blog
You are aware that Excel is notorious for innaccurate calculations right? Some of the functions using the built in math libraries return answers that are wrong. And if you use VB scripting, which uses different libraries, the problem gets compounded to answers that are really wrong. See bugnet for some examples. If you insist on using Excel, use a third party (and adequately tested) math library with it for serious precision math.
Does this support macro viruses in word processing documents and spreadsheets?
"As much as I dislike the MS machine, they do create great applications."
Microsoft Word is not a great application, in my opinion. It is quirky, very quirky.
And I just downloaded .641 last night!
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
Open a Word 2000 document, edit it, then save it in Word 97/2000/XP format and open it using Word 2000?
I couldn't with 642, my Word 2000 would hang when I opened a document saved by OpenOffice in Word 2000/XP format.
Now this may just have been me, has anyone else run into this problem? It was a pretty simple document, simple tables, no embedded graphics.
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
So, if someone is going to build the Mac OS X team, where do I sign up to be a helper?
--Stork
Deliverin' the Goods
the OpenOffice site has been slashdotted! Not opening any more.....:-)
I still get a tingle whenever a site is slashdotted.
Is there any other site, which is capable of "slashdotting" other sites just because of one link to it??
I have found a solution to Riemann's Hypothesis, but have run out of spac
The windows geek sitting next to me emailed me a pretty gnarly word document, overall looks pretty good.
;)
Yeah, but the audio/mp3 OLE doesn't work, he sneers!
aiyee... i wouldn't reccommend OpenOffice as a web browser either
Does anyone else find that ooffice is still very slow and clunky?
Moving a block of text in impress takes about a second for each update/re-rending. And that's on a 1ghz PIII with 256mb RAM.
I was hoping the 1.0 release would at least be a bit better in this respect than the prereleases I have tried.
The 1.0 for windows isn't on the NY mirror at all, the SF mirror isn't responding, and it's not on the australian FTP or HTTP mirrors either.
I know that windows openoffice users are in the minority, but in order to actually get an enterprise to accept it, you will have to run on linux AND on windows. Where's my windows version?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well sorry bill openoffice.org 1.0 ownz all your base. It can open docs very well ( compared to Star Office 6) only bad thing was menu fonts ( doc fonts can use system's TTF fonts for linux) and i replaced /path/to/openoffice/share/fonts with the fonts i got from my star office installation 6.0 beta should work too. And now menus look prettier too. Thnx to everyone who made this possible.
Peace
Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again
TrueType fonts ARE the solution. Just tried it. Menus font was unreadable, and now it's very cool, after doing some apt-get install ttf-commercial.
Might check into that for calendering. Yeah, it's web based, but that works OK, and as an added bonus you don't need to be on your network to get to it!
:)
Link
Mozilla would probably fit the bill for e-mail. And with Mozilla you also go to PHP Groupware. So it's *kind of* integrated.
I don't really see the point in having all that embedded in the office suite anyway.
Actually, using build 641 at least, OO has a seemingly fine spell-checker. I typed into a new document "It's time we tried some transfrobnulation." and turned on the spellchecker; the word you'd expect was underlined with a colored wiggly.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Office 95 consists of several programs. Do you know what the specific program that data is stored in is?
Note to others:
Before anyone jump down my throat think Access...
So I have this quad Xeon running FreeBSD sitting on an OC-3 that's 2 hops away from PAIX... Thought I'd throw what I can up there as I download the different versions. You can get to it here.
-- thalakan
Although I hope OpenOffice clobbers MS, I hope it doesn't help you! I hope that some esoteric bug in OpenOffice screws up all of your spreadsheets in some subtle way rendering your work undetectably invalid, lest it should ever be used in the real world.
Seriously, don't you have any morals, or even a sense of the danger you're putting yourself in (even if you don't care about the rest of the human race)? How can you sleep at night? I can't understand how you can do that sort of thing, knowing the consequences of what would happen if your work were ever used! And don't give me any malarkey about 'making the world safe by making war unthinkable'. It's your weapons which put the world as a whole at risk by those who are willing to think, and do, the unthinkable!
Anybody have a list of the mirrors? Especially mirrors in the USA (if they exist!?)
There's a mirror in my living room, one in the bathroom, and I've got lots of circular mirrors in the den next to the computer, but they're not quite as good as the others.
This poster's name secretly replaced with Folgers Crystals
Theres a reason why System administrators will not touch MDK with a 400,000 foot pole.
... *warble* *warble* ... Murder Death Kill ... *warble* *warble* ...
... Murder Death Kill
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
dmoz.org holds a list of available mirrors.
Note that I found at least 2 mirror sites which didn't already have the 1.0 version online.
English versions:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Off
German versions:
http://dmoz.org/World/Deutsch/Computer
At German heise.de OpenOffice.org members are giving (mirror sites,) instant support and FAQ-replies.
That's simply amazing. I like OpenOffice.
Where can we get fonts?? Other than windows directory... I don't have one... I've been looking into this for a while. I've got all sorts of fonts problems such as quotes appearing as question marks and poorly rendered fonts and it's been frustrating.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" -Andrew Tanenbaum
Problem arrise if you use their plugins.. especialy their equation editor.. This i really annoying and makes alot of school people stick to MS Office..
Any suggestions for replacements?
If you dl the new devel tools w/ the working gcc you can just build from source. The best way to build software IMO.
Greetings lubricated.
/. ! My, oh, my.
*Thank* *you* so much! I gave up all hope of being able to do this. At first I didn't even bother reading your post very carefully, until I saw the part about "...click set as default template...". When I perused the mailing lists, I only found messages about saving a document and then opening the document up each time I start OOo. Fortunately, you found the real solution!
Just for that, I'm going to try to come back here when I have mod points and mod you up. I truly think that you deserve +5 for this.
And to think that I was beginning to loose all hope in
Thanks again. I appreciate the time that you put in.
testing out my trending skills
Anyone experience this? I've installed OpenOffice and SOT Office and both times they freeze my system when it comes to the Component registration section.
A genuine thank you is in order. I appreciate you taking the time to set this up for our convenience.
You may try to install msttcorefonts package (on a debian system). Just type "apt-get install msttcorefonts". Tha package will download the core truetype fonts from microsoft and it will install them on your system. Those fonts can be freely used.
Just open the files in OpenOffice.org 1.0. ne need to worry, as the necessary filters are built right in, and function seamlessly. This applies to _all_ M$ Office docs, up to and including XP.
Mod it up mod it down: I've setup a mirror on my t1 (yes full t1!) , email me to get the password (sorry to not post the address and passwd but bandwith doesn't grow on trees). manuel@*****@******@stjohnsprepschool.......org
Actually, Appleworks is cross platform. Check it out here:
l ew orks/
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/products/app
>Note to others:
>Before anyone jump down my throat think Access...
Yes, thats the only one that wont import directly into OpenOffice.org. The data can be accessed though, but its a bit of fluffing about.
Why isnt there a version for Mac OS X?
A version for Mac OS X wouldnt only help
Mac users with office productivity but also
give Microsoft some competition!
I have a max upstream speed of 384Kbps, so don't expect this to be too fast. And if you do download from this site, thanks for testing out my server for me ;-)
Is Open Office 1.0 any better than Star Office? My mother hates Star Office and can't wait to get rid of it. Just how good is this Open Office?
Maybe I spoke too soon! Here's a PDF that seems to document it. At least the API. You're expected to know BASIC, but that can be picked up from the examples, and there are also a lot of samples under OpenOffice.org1.0/share/basic/
Link to The API Project -- at the bottom of the page is a link to the programmers tutorial PDF and an online reference guide.
Have fun!
...Maybe some users don't want to use it... And if your user installs it, then they can configure it how they want to... And each user can have their own settings for the program in their own home directory.
Oh, what's that you say? Admins should do that? Then maybe you should ask your administrator to install it for you...
So are you running Kazza(unleaded) 24/7?
I've only found one user sharing it, but of course it's queued.
I've tried severeal mirrors and the most I've got is 40KB before the connection times out. Maybe I should try a d/l manager.
I wonder if it's on gnutella... yeah!! And the speed isn't half bad
The world would be a better place if more people shared their bandwidth.
Ok, errors I can accept might occur... but downloading a non-infected file which suddenly develops a virus?
I looked at what file types were supported and then I looked at the extension at the end of the file that I need open office to acces,(I do not handel office 95 and therefore do not know that much about it), and I did not see the file extension and persumed that open office did not support it and therefore I did not bother to download it and try it out.
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If everyone just used RTF there would be no problems.
Afterall 90% of users don't use 90% of the crap that they pad these officesuites with to justify the price.
Just compare the size of a US pint (about 500mls) with a Brit/Commonwealth pint (about 600mls)
That seems to solve the problem
We installed Openoffice1.0 on our Solaris network.
From our point of view, it's a piece of crap.
The central install took several hundred megabytes
of disk space, which is ridiculous but perhaps acceptable in this era of bloated disk space for bloatware.
What's unacceptable is that the thing then does an individual user install and eats an additional
1.7 meg on everbody's home file system and screws
with our CDE desktops without asking and with no
option to undo or uninstall itself.
I'm not out to customize anything? I just want
to be able to type scalc filename or swriter filename and have the right program start up quickly on the file I specify. The damn thing
should stay out of my desktop files unless
I tell it to.
Having made the mistake of installing the thing,
I then figure I might as well look at a couple
excel spreadsheeets. They import with a vague
semblance to their appearance under excel.
Headers and labels, however, disappear or are
shifted so that they run into the values they
label or don't line up correctly.
Dates are converted from a meaningful May 1, 2002 to the lovely Openoffice value of Dec 30,1899.
Lines that once read:
GL Balance Entry $20,003.21
now read
GL Bal$20,003.21
The UI is incredibly inconsistent in deciding
whether windows that it should pop up will be
additonal X-windows that can be moved anywhere
or will simply be sub-windows of existing windows.
I don't doubt that it's hard to impossible to
write clean, bloat-free software that will
work with Office files, but please don't
make the claim that you have when you aren't even
close.
Mod parent up. Excellent ideas.
The install script seems to have gotten added between 641d and 1.0 in the linux version....
And it's got an incredibly high big density. It must have been tricky fitting that many bugs into such a small script.
I was glad to see that the install script did a network install by default. With 641d, you just had to be in the know - the -net flag wasn't documented anywhere I could find, but if you didn't use it, you couldn't install on linux (requiring each user to install a personal copy of the whole thing practically counts as not being able to install). But back to 1.0.
If you just run the install script with no options, it actually does a more-or-less reasonable install, aparently more by accident than design - multiple bugs manage to cancel each other out.
The script has a strange attempt to override the default installation path on the strange theory that if you failed to specify the path, that must have been an accident, so you must really want it somewhere different; luckily the script fails to do the override correctly, so the default remains in effect.
You also get a bunch of error messages about symlinks failing because the script used the wrong shell variable in trying to set the symlinks. But since the program can't be run via a symlink anyway, it is probably good that this failed.
Once you have completed the shared install as root, you are in for another collection of bugs new to 1.0 during the user install. You'll get about a dozen errors from a script error in attempting to make symlinks in your gnome and kde setups. Looks like misguided attempts to use
blanks in file names (but not managing to quote them as needed to get such names through a shell).
In the end it worked, but what a sucky collection of install bugs, all new between 641d and 1.0
why can't they just use an already widely used gui library rather than fucking everything up with some crap built in (and adding what, ~20MB to the download)?
SOL = shit outta luck (if you want it to look decent)
Install linux, who needs OS9 POS.
Thank you, Anonymous. Good tip.
.rtf and even (this stunned me) plain .txt files.
.sxw format. But, having read your post, I just went off and checked AUTOPILOT. Cool! A couple of minutes later a twenty-two file 2.04 MB folder only weighs 516 KB.
Only last night I was amazed to find that OpenOffice's files are not only smaller that MSWord's, they're smaller than rich text
So I began laboriously saving years of old MSWord verbiage into OpenOffice's space-saving
And they Save As back into MSWord just fine. The only functionality I lost was that I could no longer use the Table of Contents to jump to the entry. But simply reinserting the ToC in Word took five seconds. I'm impressed.
Thanks again, Anonymous. And thank you OpenOffice!
The build process invokes "javac" in order to complete the compile. I didn't have it on my search path the first time I built. It defineately compiles bytecode.
Hi people.
I downloaded and installed OpenOffice 1.0 English Version and I can't get my abnt2 keyboard to work.
The only character that works is "ç".
Characters that use accents like "à", "à", "ã", "â" and "ü" don't work. I also can't use "
When I press the accent keys I don't get any response, and I've setup OpenOffice to use the Brazilian pt-br language.
Wierd thing is that StarOffice 5.2 English Version works fine with my keyboard, and never gave me any problems.
Most of my aplications work with my keyboard, so I don't think it is a wrong keyboard configuration.
What to do?
Compass.
Try Evolution