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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!"
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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!
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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.
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?
Yes, it prints. I think it just uses printcap, so in cupsd.conf put this line:
/etc/printcap
/etc/printcap doesn't match the printers you have through your CUPS server. (Different versions of CUPS shipped with different defaults, IIRC.)
Printcap
if your
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
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.
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. -- Harlan Ellison
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.
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.
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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!
There isn't yet an OSX port. They're working on porting it at the moment. If you can develop on OSX then please give them a hand. It will rock.
Note that there is a PPC Linux build available at the Yellow Dog Linux site.
http://www.nedrichards.com
Install file, the solver is a collection of prebuilt object files and similiar development stuff to speed up development, not required (or desirable) for casual user install.
I sometimes write stuff
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.
Since apparently the porting process was halted by a deficiency in the Apple version of gcc 2.95, this may take quite a while yet.
I tried compiling gcc 3.0.4 the other day, and it doesn't. All in all, a large amount of patience is appropriate for Mac platforms.
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check out http://www.pdf995.com.
This is a free pdf file producer.
read the docs, requires the Apple Laser II NT printer driver.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
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 believe the problem so far is lack of volunteers for a MacOS X port. Sun and the OpenOffice groups both were pleading for developers a few months back, and near as I can tell there were few to no responses.
This may be a case where we want to just use the Linux port as a basis and use an X11 front-end, the way many are doing so for GIMP.
Course, we need a lot more coders before we make that happen.
There are I believe paid Sun hackers still working as the core team of the project and there are also Boeing (as in big things with wings) hackers whose programming time for the project has been donated by the company. There are I believe a large number of volunteer hackers working on the project but they are all gaining marketable skills, CV entries and maybe just having fun. Everyone gains (including Sun in its object of reducing M$ control on the desktop). As an oo user I would like to thank all who contributed to its development.
Yes. If you are us9ing linux, check out the install guide that is linked to on the download page. It shows you how to install is (easy) and then shows you what to do to setup your printer.
so far it has been printing great. I even used it tp type up a 10 page report yesterday for school, and I was very impressed.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
When you do so it will ask you for the original Office 97 CD (which must be exactly the same version). Since you have touched the original CD, don't forget to reinstall all Office and operating system service packs in the correct order when you are done.
Now the fun part is figuring out how to rerun Setup if you didn't install the Office tool bar, since the tool bar is the only organic location to start Setup, and you need to run Setup to install the tool bar :-).
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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.
Actually, I believe that the "biggie" is that SO comes with a full-featured desktop database package.
Engineering and the Ultimate
The Tektronix Phaser 300i driver for Windows produces nice Postscript output that, when converted using Ghostscript, produces very small PDFs. Using it, I turned a 1800kB Word document (with many diagrams) to a 144kB PDF.
They are very nice. Frankly, they're much better than the Windows versions.
But they also cost $460. That's a pretty steep price for someone who may just want a general suite.
Even AppleWorks (which is very funtional) costs $129.
* As is generally the case, my opinions do not reflect those of my employer.