I read the posts about this subject, and the problem of the weight of a such image is important, but we use neooffice in education where we have to do an image of the system which will be used on intel and ppc macs. Using the openoffice foundation, this shareware product covers nearly all the. Neooffice, as those of you keeping score at home may already know. The dialog boxes and menus use the aqua interface from mac. Neooffice is an office suite for mac that is based on openoffice and libreoffice. When using netrestore to restore the image to a mac, use a postaction script which will move neooffice either from ppc or intel folder to the applications folder and then delete the.
Neooffice is a fullfeatured set of office applications including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs for mac os x. Classic 45s jukebox widget gives you dashboard access to our podcast of great music from the archives of rocknroll and soul history. This is the final version of neooffice for powerpc. The document foundation is coordinating development and maintenance of this fork. Neooffice is an open source solution for users who want to have fullfeatured set of office applications under their fingertips for free. Vvaldo writes following a month or so of their early access program, neooffice, the free office suite for os x, has just released neooffice 2. Neooffice also makes use of macs spellchecker to check spelling, and address book as an information source.
Supported platforms include windows 2000 service pack 2 or higher, mac os x 10. Pages in category macosx the following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. Neooffice will at least feel more maclike, and will probably use the system clipboard, but i imagine the font rendering will still be inferior to the osx native stuff. Neooffice uses the native mac os x spellchecker by default. While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Neooffice is based on, but its user interface is mac specific and uses aqua. Two engineers created neooffice in 2003 when they made openoffice run natively on os x for the first time. Developer news about porting openoffice to darwin ppc, darwin intel and mac os x. Staroffice 9, released 17 november 2008, added support for version 1. One of the most important softwares to have in your mac or any other os is a good productivity suite of applications, and the first name that makes any mac user happy is definitely iwork. Developer news about porting openoffice to darwin ppc. There are lots of threads on office 04 on an intel mac. It will also work with any other application that happens.
Based on the office suite, neooffice has integrated dozens of native mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as ms office. Software update doesnt work it downloads the file just fine, but then i get a message like. For that, we need all the help the mac community can provide. That is, until i found the download link to the ppc version here. Youll find the interface of neooffice and the range of tools in the office suite very similar to what youd find in microsoft office. The support effort to maintain a version for old ppc macs was to great an effort. I have tried the office setup assistant but it says you cant open the application office setup assistant because powerpc applications are no longer supported. The application carries with it all the applications that youd expect. All versions of mac os x that were made to run on powerpc systems with the exception of leopard had a mac os 9 emulation layer called classic.
I think there will be a version of neooffice based on the ooo 3. It allowed mac os x to run mac os 9 applications that werent updated to run natively on os x. Classic 45s jukebox for mac free download version 1. Neooffice is a welcome open source alternative to the pricier microsoft office and iwork office suites. Run linux, windows, and other systems on your mac switch fast between guest pcs. Direct links to neooffice were removed because our focus is on openoffice. Neooffice is an independent mac portfork of openoffice. Neo office for macos is free, and its long development in open. Put both versions of neooffice on the image, one in a ppc folder, the other in a intel folder. Neooffice is the more maclike of these two version, with easier installation, better integration into the os x interface with pull down menus at the top of the screen, and familiar keyboard shortcuts, for example, use of mac os xs fonts and printing services without additional configuration, and integration with the mac os x clipboard and. It turns out theres a shortage of testers for the ppc version, and they make it a bit harder to find, but its there. Neooffice for mac offers a suite of productivity apps that aim to rival the likes of microsoft office and apple iwork. Neooffice developer notes and announcements forums. Since narf was able to do it on a ppc g4, it doesnt look like a general openoffice bug, though.
Neooffice is almost always a version or more behind openoffice. There is no universal binary available at this time. Old and new version of openoffice for mac download. To install neooffice, doubleclick on the downloaded file in your downloads folder. Probably not dramatically faster than the g4, though. Doubleclick on the software installer to start the installation. Old and new version of openoffice for mac download oldapps. Neooffices executable is javabased rather than a binary. Neooffice in universal binaries, one question more. Users of mac os v with ppc should download this version of neooffice 3. Neooffice is an office suite for the macos operating system developed by planamesa inc. Probably will also use more memory than it used on the ppc. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. The installer installs neooffice in one of the following folders.
The dialog is not our dialog but is a native dialog that mac os x is displaying so worrying about pretty drawing when the larger issue of how are we supposed to know that mac os x has barged into our application and react to this dialog needs resolution. Get the latest apache openoffice release for your macos x. Includes the mac app store security features, checkmark. Recent news articles from the apache openoffice homepage. It is a commercial fork of the freeopen source that implements most of the features of, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and graphics program, and adds some features not present in the macos versions of libreoffice and apache openoffice. New features include support for the native mac os x spellchecker and address book. Neooffice doesnt require the x11 software layer sorry, i really dont understand x11, but it complicates matters.
The relationship of sources used by neooffice is the same as the systems. The podcast is updated every time we put a new 45 in our online jukebox at classic. How to use data from the mac os x address book starting with neooffice 2. Our builtin antivirus scanned this mac download and rated it as 100% safe. The only current mac os x nonx11 development is the neoofficej fork of 1. The download will run you about 400mb and there are separate installs for intel and ppc chipsets. Q emulator makes use of os x most advanced technologies like opengl and coreaudio to accelerate your experience with your. With neooffice, you can view, edit, and save openoffice documents, libreoffice documents, and simple microsoft word, excel, and powerpoint documents. The update name of update could not be verified and expanded correctly. About libreoffice for mac libreoffice is a free software office suite developed by the document foundation as a fork of.
This should open a window in the finder that contains the neooffice installer. Libreoffice is an office suite word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing tool compatible with other major office suites. How to get neooffice and quicktime to play more media formats starting with neooffice 2. What puzzles me even more is that i observe the same problem when doing it in openoffice under x. Neooffice will oblige us to do one image for ppc macs, and one for intel macs. Ive only used openoffice on the mac, but its an x11 program. When attempting to open such files, wordperfect for dos 6. This free mac app was originally produced by dan schimpf. Compatibility, macos catalina macos mojave macos high sierra macos sierra, macos catalina. It is compatible with other major office suites, including microsoft office, and available on a variety of platforms.