In my day job, I have to work with a number of people who still use WordPerfect in Windows, and they keep sending me “. One additional benefit of this software is that, unlike either Microsoft Word or Apple’s Pages word processor, NeoOffice is actually able to directly open WordPerfect documents. Its menus are native Aqua menus, it has the standard Mac OS X “ Open” and “ Save As…” dialog boxes, it uses Mac OS X’s fonts, it supports Quartz Font Smoothing, it has native printing support, copy and paste support, and drag-and-drop. In addition, OpenOffice is by definition a clone of Microsoft Office for Windows, and it has various Windows-specific UI quirks, such as the very un-Mac-like underline in button labels in dialog boxes, the absence of any menus in the main menu bar when no document window is open, etc.īut, you know, for a free open source project, it’s a pretty decent product. It is a Java application and it shows, both in its visual appearance and in its performance. In other words, it is the first really usable version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. It is the first version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X that does not require you to use the X11 environment, meaning that it is more fully integrated with Mac OS X and takes advantage of some core Mac OS X features. The software is called NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta 3. A couple of weeks ago, the long-awaited Aqua-native version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X was finally relased-albeit in a ‘beta’ version, indicating that the software is not exactly ready for prime-time.
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