NeoOffice/J Press Kit

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This is the page where we will collect additional resources for the use of the press/media.

Welcome to the NeoOffice® Press Kit. This page aims to provide those interested in writing a story about NeoOffice®/J with some background materials. The initial press release is available at the NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement page.

Contents

Features

The advantages of NeoOffice/J over other office suites, particularly Microsoft's, are legion. Most importantly, NeoOffice/J is free and open source software relieving you of costly licensing fees.

There is a strong community support forum that is also frequented by the developers at http://www.trinity.org/

NeoOffice/J vs. Microsoft Office

Apart from these benefits, NeoOffice/J 1.1 has features that outshine Microsoft Office:

FeatureNeoOffice/JMS Office for Mac
General:
Localized user interface for 40 languages.YESNo
Free international spelling checkers and help files in many languages through OpenOffice.org.YESNo
Support for text entry in non-Roman scripts including South Asian, East Asian, right-to-left and complex text layout scripts.YESNo
Clean HTML code export (especially when compared to MS Office).YESNo
Unified User Interface, reducing learning time and costs.YESNo
Type ahead functionality (optional) like many mobile phones haveYESNo
A logical, safe and suite-wide system for templates, so these are never accidentally updated.YESNo
Writer (word processor):
A logical style system that does not invent styles based on your layout choices.YESNo
Functional bullet/list numberingYESNo
The ability to import WordPerfect documents (thanks to the libwpd project)YESNo
Calc (spreadsheet):
More conditional layout options for cellsYESNo
Style-enabled layout system for text and cellsYESNo
Impress (presentation):
The ability to export to Flash animationYESNo
Superior (3D) font art possibilities.YESNo

NeoOffice/J vs. OpenOffice.org for Macintosh (X11)

NeoOffice/J is far more integrated with OS X than the X11 version on which it is based. Rather than relying on X11, NeoOffice/J uses Java to bridge the gap between the OpenOffice.org interface code and Apple's OS X.

FeatureNeoOffice/JOpenOffice.org for Mac (X11)
Uses your normal Mac fonts (no conversion required)YESNo
Allows international keyboards and switches keyboards along with your MacYESNo
Optimized PDF generationYESNo
Native Aqua menusYESNo
Native OS X printingYESNo
Native (styled) copy and paste supportYESNo
Drag-and-drop between other applicationsYESNo
Normal Mac keyboard shortcutsYESNo
Mouse wheel scrollingYESNo
Integrated with Finder and major mail clientsYESNo

Drawbacks

In all fairness, NeoOffice/J is not perfect. Several things have yet to be implemented. The most notable of these are:

Feature NeoOffice/J MS Office for Mac OpenOffice.org for Mac (X11)
Printing bitmaps is limited to a resolution of 300 dpi Yes No No
Unable to print Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) Yes No No
Windows-style open/save dialogues Yes No Yes
Plugin support (media playing) No Yes No
Non-Mac-like keyboard shortcuts Some Some Some
Limited table drawing options Yes No Yes

Graphics

Medium- and High-Res Logos, Headers, Application Icons

  • sardisson has some of these (the wiki and websites have smaller, lo-res versions to keep pageloads quick for dialup), but we may need to contact foxcorner for others.
  • The icon used for this site is located at http://www.neooffice.org/ship2.jpg

Screenshots

Several screenshots of NeoOffice/J are available:

Background Info

"Executive Summary" of other info

  • NeoHistory/relationship with OOo summary, link to the full version
  • Links to other relevant articles [what? sardisson has a number of things bookmarked for future additions to the NeoHistory article]
  • Links to and/or some key FAQs reposted

Real-world stories

  • Can we get to write up a brief bit about his migration of the World Scout Bureau from Microsoft Office to Neo/J?
  • Others?

--Ovvldc 17:10, 21 Apr 2005 (CDT) Links to migration stories:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1041 http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1223 http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1035 http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6153#6153

Also try the Versiontracker feedback pages for upbeat stories.

--sardisson 10:40, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT) I think I can generate VT code to pull only top reviews.... We can definitely insert code to display our VT (and I think MU) star ratings.... Whether we can use them in the wiki (it won't generate links...)..hmm. We might need to set up pages that pull what we want from each and then just link to them from here.

For MU we need PHP or Perl--, can you do this on NeoOffice.org? VT is just HTML+CSS+JS and we can do overall ratings plus pull latest 4+ star reviews.


What Else?

  • Other things we should have here?





Discussion

This trinity thread is for further discussion of the development of the Press Kit, as needed.

As we add items to the kit, we wipe out the "comments" or "place-holders" for them.

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