Re: OpenOffice beta 3 - Goodbye NeoOffice?


Mike Dee wrote:
OpenOffice.org beta 3 is now available for testing by the those who
like to live dangerously.

For the first time OO.o is now a native Mac application, no more
need for X11.

[...]
For a full list of new core features:
<http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html>

Just a few words here... The Openoffice Aqua is still only an alpha version, - not even a beta.:-)

but when this said, I can only say that the last build of OpenOffice 3.0 Aqua is running very, very stable on both OS X 10.4.11PPC/10.5.2PPC as well as on a MacPro with both 10.4.11 and 10.5.2.

It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven't had a single 'unexpected quit' with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008. - I have apprx. 1550 fonts active in my main set, and apprx. 23.000 fonts on the HD - all 100% managed by Linotype Fontexplorer.

So now printing with quite a lot of various fonts and various typefaces within the same font is just like a dream, though the OOo crew still tells us that printing can be a problem.:-)

So what can't we expect, when first OpenOffice 3.0 Final is released? - Mmmmm.... I can hardly wait.:-)

cheers, Erik Richard

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