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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Hello,
I would like to correct (myself) that Draw allows saving in popular graphics format such as BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG. You would need to do a File -> Export -> (Select a) File Type. Opening GIF and PNG files seems to be OK although I have yet to try others such as JPG. It seems that Openoffice.org components uniformly supports a range of graphics formats that is defined in the list obtainable by doing a drop-down on the File Type combo box in Insert -> Graphics. I apologise for this mistake.
In addition, I would like to comment that my review is done in the stance of an average user, and is meant more for average users and as such, might not be able to fully address the needs of power users. Again, I apologise for this. Also, I am not neither affiliated with Openoffice.org nor any of the other entities mentioned in my review.
William Ku