Star IBM Releases Lotus Symphony 1.0
Linked by Adam S on Mon 2nd Jun 2008 19:59 UTC
Features, Office Last week, IBM unveiled the first version of their OpenOffice.org offshoot, Lotus Symphony. Symphony is aimed at professional users in a corporate environment, but brings to OpenOffice.org many UI enhancements in an attractive, single tabbed interface. Symphony 1.0 runs on Windows and Linux; while the site used to suggest a Mac version was forthcoming, there is currently no reference to a Mac native version of Symphony. The Lotus Symphony website has been updated to reflect the recent release, however, downloads are very slow at the moment "due to high demand."
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unoengborg
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2005-07-06

So have you tried passing around Writer-documents between Linux and windows? OO2.2 and OO2.4? It's not a smooth ride.


That may be so, but it is less costly to upgrade everybody to the same version than it is to upgrade everybody to the same version of MS-Office. Besides, OOo is very good at saving to PDF.

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msundman Member since:
2005-07-06

OOo is very good at saving to PDF.


No, it's not. OOo is awful at saving to PDF. The PDF export is picky about fonts and it doesn't support EPS (which is the only vector format that OOo supports even partly without making a mess of it all).

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