chemistry_geek
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I just finished installing OpenOffice 1.0.3 Golden Master and was rather impressed with the program. Jaguar is REQUIRED, not Mac OS X 10.1.X. Installation was really easy, but you need an X11 Server before you can run it. I downloaded Apple's X11 for Mac OS X here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html
and got Open Office from here:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
The word processing program did open my M$ Word documents, tables and graphics were included in the document but had some minor formatting issues, but gosh, everything is pretty much there and functional.
The spreadsheet program also opens M$ Excel spreadsheets, but the charts were really ginked, as in the embedded windows for the charts were present but no graphics were in them.
There is online help (html) similar to Mozilla help/M$ Office help.
The Presentation software also correctly opened the PowerPoint slide show with minor formatting issues, but again, everything was there.
The default file format for OpenOffice is XML. Most of M$ Office functions are present but in different locations. The OpenOffice website states that this version is Golden Master and stable enough for everyday use. Also included is printing support using CUPS and Postscript printing, PostScript to PDF conversion, and PDF file writing.
Double clicking on an OpenOffice XML file starts the Start OpenOffice program, which then starts Apple's X11 server, then OpenOffice starts and loads the file that was double clicked.
Watching the Installation progress, it looked like some Mac OS X fonts were being converted to run in OpenOffice.
Hope everyone interested in this finds this useful. This sure beats being assimilated by The BORG and becoming a drone.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html
and got Open Office from here:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
The word processing program did open my M$ Word documents, tables and graphics were included in the document but had some minor formatting issues, but gosh, everything is pretty much there and functional.
The spreadsheet program also opens M$ Excel spreadsheets, but the charts were really ginked, as in the embedded windows for the charts were present but no graphics were in them.
There is online help (html) similar to Mozilla help/M$ Office help.
The Presentation software also correctly opened the PowerPoint slide show with minor formatting issues, but again, everything was there.
The default file format for OpenOffice is XML. Most of M$ Office functions are present but in different locations. The OpenOffice website states that this version is Golden Master and stable enough for everyday use. Also included is printing support using CUPS and Postscript printing, PostScript to PDF conversion, and PDF file writing.
Double clicking on an OpenOffice XML file starts the Start OpenOffice program, which then starts Apple's X11 server, then OpenOffice starts and loads the file that was double clicked.
Watching the Installation progress, it looked like some Mac OS X fonts were being converted to run in OpenOffice.
Hope everyone interested in this finds this useful. This sure beats being assimilated by The BORG and becoming a drone.