Apache OpenOffice Community Forums. The Free, Open Source Office Suite. Install NeoOffice. To install NeoOffice, double-click on the downloaded file in your Downloads folder. This should open a window in the Finder that contains the NeoOffice installer. Double-click on the software installer to start the installation. The installer installs NeoOffice in one of the following folders: In the Applications folder.
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What is OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the name of productivity application suite, the project and the website. Please note the .org part of the project name, which is needed for legal reasons.
Users and many organizations benefit from the power and the generous license of the project. The original license even allowed taking all the code, documentation, templates, etc. and not contributing anything back into the project. This resulted in many forks:
There are different kinds of collaboration between the projects. They all have in common that they take the new features, improvements, and the many bugfixes from the core project and extend it to their needs. Some of the projects contribute all their changes back. Some projects contribute developer power for isolating problems. Some projects contribute by writing good bug reports to get the upstream developers involved. Some projects just replace the branding and sell it as their product. Some just take and never give back and instead threaten with lawsuits if the core project touches their niche market.
Since specialized needs of these forks are sometimes not directly applicable to the core project and the effort needed to integrate their changes into such a complex multi-platform, multi-language office suite require valuable development and testing resources there will always be the temporary need for specialized branches of the core project. The core project aims to be as generally useful as possible, so the need of forks is reduced.
OpenOffice.org Aqua
OpenOffice.org Aqua is the OpenOffice.org core project with native support for Mac Aqua. Since version 3.0 of OpenOffice.org was released Mac Aqua is another primary platform of the core project.
Mac OS X port Home: [Mac OS X port Home]Aqua links: [Aqua Version of OpenOffice.org]Blogs: [Developers blogs]
What is NeoOffice?
NeoOffice is a fork of the core project, which specialized in making it available for Mac OS X independently from OpenOffice.org's Aqua port mentioned above.
Fork meaning that NeoOffice is another project, and is not OpenOffice.org. The NeoOffice project does not contribute back to OpenOffice.org and usually does not help to enhance the core project.
Using Java/Cocoa binding, its look is like native integration with the Mac OS X system. This means, for example, native access to all the fonts in Mac OS X a different way than OpenOffice.org does (OpenOffice.org does use all Apple fonts, but not the same way). It is built on top of OpenOffice.org X11 by using Java/Cocoa bindings for the User Interface (UI).
NeoOffice used a subclause of OpenOffice.org's license to change it to another license which is incompatible with the core project. so, to avoid legal issues, OpenOffice.org developers had to rewrite some subsystems, since NeoOffice code cannot be used in OpenOffice.org. Even when the licence for a fork change was compatible with the core project other kinds of legal threats were were used.
More informations in About NeoOffice
Q1: Where can I find OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice?
A: You can download both from respective sites.
Download OpenOffice.org from here (openoffice.org)
Download NeoOffice from here (neooffice.org)
Q2: Why does there seem to be several parallel efforts?
A: This is a very normal situation in open source. And because of historical and personal choices.
This mail from Kevin Hendricks provides some historical details.
If you want to really understand the situation, here's some additional reading for you: History of NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org, Quote from Patrick may explain some of the licensing situation, and finally, you may also want to read another FAQ
Q3: Where do I get support for OpenOffice.org Mac/Aqua ?
A: The OpenOffice.org support page is the starting point for all support related to core project.
Q4: It's OpenSource, so one project should freely use the other projects code
A: Due to license incompatibilities this is not possible.
In the OpenSource world there were always issues with license incompatibilities, e.g. switching the license of revised-BSD-code to GPL has always been legal, the reverse is not true though. Since a change like that is one-way only and prevents the generous original project from receiving fixes from the derived project, this is usually considered an unfriendly act.
Q5: But it would be more efficient, if there would be only one effort...
A: Probably. A proposal to work together has been made, and NeoOffice developers refused.
OpenOffice.org does concern several developers who are working on their free time only. Any change is for OpenOffice.org project, and the name of the developer who wrote the code does not appear in the code after integration : this is community project.
The NeoOffice project is a Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin project only.
The problem is : there is curently no possibility for OpenOffice.org to use NeoOffice code, even if this code is interesting, because of the licensing issues. So every change must be rewritten for OpenOffice.org project, using another implementation.
A big part of changes are using Java in NeoOffice, and this is as wrote Ed Peterlin, a short term choice. The Java part of NeoOffice is not interesting for OpenOffice.org since OpenOffice.org project wants to use only Cocoa/Carbon.
Further informations are available at: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/
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Neooffice 2014 5 – Mac Tailored Openoffice Based Productivity Suite Software
N.B.This page compares NeoOffice 3.3 to LibreOffice 3.6 and Microsoft Office 2011. To see the version of this page comparing NeoOffice 3.1.1 with then-current versions of OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office 2008, see NeoOffice 3.1.1 Feature Comparison.
NeoOffice has many advantages over other office suites, including, in some cases, Microsoft's Office. Most importantly, NeoOffice is free and open source software, relieving you of costly licensing fees. The NeoOffice community also offers support options, including the documentation in this wiki and read-only access to the forums, where priority support is available for NeoOffice donors.
At the same time, other office suites also contain features missing in NeoOffice which may be indispensable to your work, and your purchase of commercial software generally assures the software has passed professional quality assurance and typically entitles you to professional technical support.
This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice with two comprable office suites, Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages; those we are aware of are linked below.
[edit] NeoOffice vs. Microsoft Office vs LibreOffice
As an open source project, NeoOffice is free to incorporate useful code from other open source projects that corporate products often cannot use. In turn, this allows NeoOffice to react to needs of its users in ways that others are unable to match.
NeoOffice is also far more integrated with Mac OS X than the Mac releases of LibreOffice. Rather than relying on the vision and goals of the Linux developers behind LibreOffice to determine features, NeoOffice includes many features designed specifically for Mac OS X and requested by NeoOffice donors.
Apart from these benefits, NeoOffice has features that outshine Microsoft Office and LibreOffice:
[edit]Price, System Compatibility, and Version
[edit]Mac OS X Integration
[edit]General Features
[edit]Internationalization and Localization
[edit]Word ProcessorNeooffice 2014 5 – Mac Tailored Openoffice Based Productivity Suite Free
[edit]Spreadsheet
[edit]PresentationNeooffice 2014 5 – Mac Tailored Openoffice Based Productivity Suite Download
[edit]Performance Comparisons
Comparison of these office suites performing a number of different tasks can be found on the NeoOffice Performance Comparison page.
[edit]Supported File Formats
NeoOffice can read and write a large variety of file formats, both current and legacy. Current and recent Microsoft Office file formats are just some of the import and export possibilities; for a more complete listing, see the NeoOffice File Formats matrix.
[edit]Still To Do
In all fairness, NeoOffice is not perfect. No software is. Along with relatively large RAM requirements (minimum 512 MB, 1 GB or more recommended), there is always room for improvement.
[edit]Other Comparisons
Additional feature comparisons between selected office suites and word processors are available at Mellel: Competitive Comparison (redlers.com; compares Mellel 2.0 with Microsoft Office 2004, OpenOffice.org 2.0.x, and Nisus Writer Express 2.7, but not NeoOffice) and Word-Alternativen: Der Test (apfelwiki.de; compares AbiWord 2.4.5, Mellel 2.2, NeoOffice 1.2.2/2.0.3 Aqua Beta, Nisus Writer Express 2.7, and Apple's Pages 2.0.2 [de]).
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