Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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That read more like an advertising brochure than a review.
He doesn't make it clear whether the "Draw" program is a drawing
program or a bitmap image editor. Obviously the film poster shown was
not done in it. Nor does he say what formats it loads and saves, just
vaguely that it doesn't handle the usual ones.
It does look as though Open Office works. It's a pity it has to look
so like a Windows product. It would be nice to see a good new office
suite that was rethought from the ground up, rather than being an
attempt to imitate a MS product.
He does mention one major gap - it doesn't load or save Word Perfect
files. Anyone know if this is being addressed?
Does it export PDF files?