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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!"
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"
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!"
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........
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.
Can I crack open an access file in this? I don't see a dB solution in it.
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.
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
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)
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...
I wonder whether M$ would prefer us to pirate OfficeXP or avoid it alltogether and get OOo..
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"
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.
I don't know... the geek in me wants all the marketting trash out of the window. The prevelance of viruses in microsoft software is probably due as much to the widespread usage (bigger target), and focus on usability rather than security (easier target) in it's software than in Free Software ("free software is only free if your time has no value"). That said, converting people to free software by spewing half truths just is just something I can't do.. it's like encouraging someone to buy a pentium 4 because it's clockspeed is high, or buy an athlon XP because it's obviously compatible with Microsoft XP, it's as much marketting as it is truth.