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-'''N.B. Initial editing is still in progress <!--(using NeoOffice_2.2.4_Feature_Comparison as a base)-->'''+
-'''N.B.''' ''This page compares NeoOffice 2.2.4 <!--(a legacy version of NeoOffice)--> to OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Microsoft Office 2004 <!--(and Microsoft Office 2008)-->.''+This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with 2 comparable office suites - Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice - to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software.
-The advantages of NeoOffice over other office suites, particularly Microsoft's, are legion. Most importantly, NeoOffice is free and open source software, relieving you of costly licensing fees. There is also a strong community support forum that is frequented by the developers at http://trinity.neooffice.org/ <!-- www.trinity.org is Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Washington DC -->+=== NeoOffice 2015.4 vs. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 vs. LibreOffice 5.0.4 ===
-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.+<table width="100%">
 + <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left">Performance Test</th>
 + <th>NeoOffice 2015.4</th>
 + <th>Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2</th>
 + <th>LibreOffice 5.0.4</th>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="5">General:</th></tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td>Price</td>
 + <td align="center">[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neooffice/id639210716?mt=12 Payment] of US$29.99 in Mac App Store</td>
 + <td align="center">$0.00</td>
 + <td align="center">$0.00</td>
 + </tr>
-This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with two comparable office suites, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, 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 [[#Other Comparisons|below]].+ <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="5">Launch Time:</th></tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after reboot (cold start)</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">8 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">14 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">17 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start)</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">5 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">6 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
-=== NeoOffice vs. vs. OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office ===+ <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="5">Word Processor:</th></tr>
 + <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="5">... with a 500,000 character document (approximately 125 pages long)</th></tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start)</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">5 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">1 second</td>
 + <td align="center">1 second</td>
 + <td align="center">1 second</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Save</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">1 second</td>
 + <td align="center">2 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">2 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Page Preview</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">2 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">2 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">3 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Print </td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">10 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">13 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">10 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr {{BlueRow}}>
 + <td colspan="5">Export/Save as PDF</td>
 + </tr>
 + <tr>
 + <td></td>
 + <td align="center">6 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">6 seconds</td>
 + <td align="center">7 seconds</td>
 + </tr>
-Apart from these benefits, NeoOffice 2.2.4 has features that outshine Microsoft Office:+ <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="5">Presentation:</th></tr>
-<TABLE WIDTH=100%>+ <tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="5">... with a 12 slide document</th></tr>
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left">Feature</th><th valign="top">NeoOffice</th><th>MS Office 2008 for Mac</th></tr>+ <tr {{BlueRow}}>
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="3">General:</th></tr>+ <td colspan="5">Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start)</td>
-<tr><td>Price (standard edition)</td><td align="center">$0.00</td><td align="center">$399.95</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<!--FIXME-->+ <tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Runs on Intel-based Macs</td><td align="center">Natively</td><td align="center">Natively</td></tr>+ <td></td>
-<tr><td>Universal Binary (single application that works on both PPC and Intel Macs)</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">6 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Document contents searchable by Spotlight</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">5 seconds</td>
-<tr><td>Type ahead word-completion (optional), similar to features found in mobile phones</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">6 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for magnify and swipe gestures on multi-touch trackpads</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr><td>A logical, safe and suite-wide system for templates, so these are never accidentally updated</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <tr {{BlueRow}}>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Clean HTML code export (compliant with international web standards)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td colspan="5">Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide</td>
-<tr><td>Support for international standard ISO 26300 OpenDocument file formats</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for Microsoft Office 2007 (OpenXML) file formats</td><td align="center">{{Y}}*</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <tr>
-<tr><td>Support for voice-dictation and similar software</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}(?)</td></tr>+ <td></td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Unified User Interface, reducing learning time and costs</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
-<tr><td>Media browser, providing easy access to iLife images, sounds, and video</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}(?)</td></tr>+ <td align="center">6 seconds</td>
- + <td align="center">7 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Localized user interface and help files (number of languages)</td><td align="center">58†</td><td align="center">11†</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr><td>International spelling checkers</td><td align="center">88‡</td><td align="center">12‡</td></tr>+ <tr {{BlueRow}}>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for text entry in non-Roman scripts including South Asian, East Asian, right-to-left and complex text layout scripts</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">Some [http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/5/1/35123D3A-8A7A-40F1-BB85-AF03D9B4E5F3/MicrosoftOffice2004forMacResourceKit.pdf#p=105]</td></tr>+ <td colspan="5">Time to complete slide show with transition set to Fade Smoothly, using space bar to advance slide</td>
- + </tr>
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="3">Supported scripts or languages:</th></tr>+ <tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Arabic</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td></td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Armenian</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">29 seconds</td>
-<tr><td align="left">Cyrillic</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">29 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Cherokee</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">34 seconds</td>
-<tr><td align="left">Chinese (Simplified)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Chinese (Traditional)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <tr {{BlueRow}}>
-<tr><td align="left">Devanagari &amp; Gujarati (Indic languages)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td colspan="5">Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Greek</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Hebrew</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Inuktitut</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td></td>
-<tr><td align="left">Japanese</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">29 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Korean</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">30 seconds</td>
-<tr><td align="left">Roman (Western and Eastern European languages)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">30 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Roman (Hawaiian, Northern Sami)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr><td align="left">Roman (Vietnamese)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <tr {{BlueRow}}>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Tamil</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr> <!-- might want to group this with the Indic langs -->+ <td colspan="5">Print </td>
-<tr><td align="left">Thai</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td align="left">Other</td><td align="center">Likely**</td><td align="center">Unknown</td></tr>+ <tr>
- + <td></td>
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="3">Writer (word processor):</th></tr>+ <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
-<tr><td>A logical style system that does not invent styles based on your layout choices</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">20 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Functional bullet/list numbering</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">20 seconds</td>
-<tr><td>The ability to import WordPerfect documents (thanks to the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwpd/ libwpd project])</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>The ability to import Microsoft Works word processing documents (thanks to the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwps/ libwps] and [http://go-ooo.org ooo-build] projects)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}††</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <tr {{BlueRow}}>
- + <td colspan="5">Export/Save as PDF</td>
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="3">Calc (spreadsheet):</th></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr><td>More conditional layout options for cells</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <tr>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Style-enabled layout system for text and cells</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td></td>
-<tr><td>Support for linear programming extensions for spreadsheets (thanks to the ooo-build project)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}‡‡</td></tr>+ <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros (thanks to the ooo-build project)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}††</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+ <td align="center">3 seconds</td>
- + <td align="center">4 seconds</td>
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left" colspan="3">Impress (presentation):</th></tr>+ </tr>
-<tr><td>The ability to export to [http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/ Flash] animation</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Superior (3D) font art possibilities.</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Support for playing [[More media formats in Quicktime|QuickTime-supported]] audio and video</td><td align="center">{{Y}}***</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+
- +
-<tr><td colspan="3">'''Notes:'''</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">* NeoOffice 2.2.4 includes support for Word 2007 (<tt>.docx</tt>), Excel 2007 (<tt>.xlsx</tt>), and PowerPoint 2007 (<tt>.pptx</tt>) files using code from the [http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/ odf-converter project].</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">† NeoOffice 2.2.4 only ships with a UI for [http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php?fragment=installlanguages English]; UIs for the other 57 languages are freely available in [http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php?fragment=installlanguages language packs]. All versions of Office 2008 are available in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish<!-- still can't tell if they're all in one binary or separate purchases like 2004 --> [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-24ParisExpoPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases].</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">‡ NeoOffice 2.2.4 uses the native Mac OS X spell-checker by default. If there is no native spell-checker dictionary available for a language, NeoOffice will fall back to Hunspell dictionaries. An ever-growing number of writing (proofing) tools for many languages are available from the OpenOffice.org project [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries] using the Dictionary wizard (in the '''File''' menu, choose '''Wizards''', then "Install new dictionaries..."). Microsoft Office 2008 ships with proofing tools for Danish, Dutch, English (US/UK/AU), Finnish, French (FR/CA), German (DE/CH), Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (NB/NN), Portugese (PT/BR), Spanish and Swedish [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?clr=99-4-0&srcid=018ea317-227f-49eb-963f-8d57bddd41d41033&ep=9&target=6474a4a6-9d3e-4bde-a255-fb9286ef5d101033].</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">** Because OpenOffice.org includes support for languages and scripts which do not have keyboard layouts in Mac OS X, and because Mac OS X includes system-level Unicode support for many of these languages even though Apple does not ship fonts or keyboards, it is very likely that NeoOffice will support text entry (and perhaps sorting) in the language/script if one installs third-party Unicode fonts and keyboard layouts. See Tom Gewecke's [http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html Your Multilingual Mac] for more resources. For instance, there is a report that NeoOffice handles [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1035&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= Khmer] very well, and there has even been a [http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=20144&highlight=NeoOffice report] of using NeoOffice with characters in Unicode Planes 1 and 2.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">†† Experimental support; VBA: all macros may not work perfectly; Microsoft Works documents: not all versions of the format are supported, and some formatting may be lost.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">‡‡ Microsoft [http://www.officeformac.com/blog/Solver-For-Excel-2008--Available-By-Mid-September announced] the Solver will return to Excel 2008 by September 2008.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">*** Mac OS X 10.4 and higher required for video support.</td></tr></table>+
- +
-=== NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice.org for Macintosh (X11) ===+
- +
-NeoOffice is far more integrated with OS X than the Mac releases of OpenOffice.org. Rather than relying on X11, NeoOffice uses Java and Cocoa to bridge the gap between the OpenOffice.org interface code and Apple's OS X. +
- +
-<TABLE WIDTH=100%>+
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left">Feature</th><th valign="top">NeoOffice</th><th>OpenOffice.org for Mac (X11)</th></tr>+
-<tr><td>Uses your normal Mac fonts (no conversion required)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Smooth font display (Quartz anti-aliasing)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Allows international keyboards and input methods</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">Partial</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Switches keyboards and input methods along with your Mac</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Optimized PDF generation</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Native Aqua menus</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Native Aqua open & save dialogues</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Aqua buttons, checkboxes, and scrollbars</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Native floating palettes</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Aqua-style icon set</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Native Mac OS X printing</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Native (styled) copy and paste support</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Drag-and-drop between other applications</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Normal Mac keyboard shortcuts (⌘ key)</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}*</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Mouse wheel scrolling</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for magnify and swipe gestures on multi-touch trackpads</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Integrated with Finder and major mail clients</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">Partial†</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Spotlight support</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}‡</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Quick Look support</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}‡</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Uses Mac OS X spelling (and grammar, on 10.5) checker and dictionaries for supported languages</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Reads from the Mac OS X Address Book as a datasource</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}**</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Reads from the Thunderbird Address Book as a datasource</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr><tr><td>Usable with accessibility tools such as iListen, Proloquo, ViaVoice, and others</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Media support</td><td align="center">{{Y}}***</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Media browser, providing easy access to iLife images, sounds, and video</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Reads and writes files on AFP and SMB volumes and iDisks</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">Partial††</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Support for Microsoft Office 2007 (OpenXML) file formats</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for linear programming extensions for spreadsheets</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Support for Microsoft Works word processing documents</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>OpenOffice.org codebase (version)</td><td align="center">2.2.1</td><td align="center"><!--{{oooversion}}-->2.4.1‡‡</td></tr>+
-<tr {{BlueRow}}><td>Runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11, and 10.5.x</td><td align="center">{{Y}}</td><td align="center">{{N}}‡‡</td></tr>+
-<tr><td>Runs on Intel-based Macs</td><td align="center">Natively</td><td align="center">Natively‡‡</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">'''Notes:'''</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">* Available only with certain settings in Apple X11, and the control key may not work as expected.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">† Finder integration provided by a small AppleScript wrapper<!--; more extensive Finder integration [[Big_issues_in_OpenOffice.org_2.0#Using_Start_OpenOffice.org_as_the_launcher_for_OpenOffice.org.2FX11_2.0|is available]] using the separate [http://www.geocities.com/terry_teague/openoffice.html Start OpenOffice.org] application-->.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">‡ NeoOffice includes the [[NeoLight]] Spotlight Importer; users of OpenOffice.org must [[NeoLight#Getting_the_Source_Code|build]] and install the importer themselves. On Mac OS X 10.5, Apple includes OpenDocument Text (<tt>.odt</tt>) files in the file types natively supported by Spotlight and Quick Look.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">** This feature was expected in OpenOffice.org 2.3 but is not present in that release. Presumably it will appear in a future OpenOffice.org release.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">*** Mac OS X 10.4 and higher required for video support.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">†† OpenOffice.org is missing support for iDisk and webdav volumes and also is missing support for using Base .odb files on any remote volume.</td></tr>+
-<tr><td colspan="3">‡‡ The official Mac OS X version of OpenOffice.org is available as separate binary downloads for several languages; builds of OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 are available in Danish, Dutch, English, German, Portuguese (PT and BR), and Swedish for Intel Macs and in German, Portuguese (BR) and Swedish for PowrPC Macs and run on Mac OS X 10.4.x and higher. To see which version is available for your language and hardware (PPC or Intel), check [http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/x11.html here]. Builds for other languages, or older versions that support more languages, may or may not be available.</td></tr>+
</table> </table>
-=== Still To Do ===+'''Notes:'''
- +* Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
-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. NeoOffice can (and will) get better. Take a look at the following comparison:+* No other applications were running
- +* Machine details: Mac OS X 10.11.2 running on a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini server with 4 GB of RAM
-<table style="width: 100%;">+* Spotlight privacy was enabled for all volumes
-<tr {{HeaderRow}}><th align="left">Feature</th>+* Automatic spell checking, grammar, capitalization and hyphenation were disabled
-<th>NeoOffice</th>+* Sample 500,000 character word processing document was created from a [http://www.lipsum.com Lorem Ipsum] generation site and saved as an .odt file
-<th>MS Office 2008 for Mac</th>+* Sample presentation document was obtained from this [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=62838#62838 post] in the Trinity forums and saved as a .ppt file
-<th>OpenOffice.org for Mac (X11)</th>+* All print tests were output to the Mac OS X Preview application
-</tr><tr>+
-<td>Non-Mac keyboard shortcuts</td>+
-<td align="center">Some</td>+
-<td align="center">Some</td>+
-<td align="center">Some</td>+
-</tr><tr {{BlueRow}}>+
-<td>Table drawing options</td>+
-<td align="center">Good</td>+
-<td align="center">Very good</td>+
-<td align="center">Good</td>+
-</tr><tr>+
-<td>Aqua look-and-feel</td>+
-<td align="center">Good</td>+
-<td align="center">Full</td>+
-<td align="center">None</td>+
-</tr></table>+
- +
-=== Other Comparisons ===+
- +
-Additional feature comparisons between selected office suites and word processors are available at [http://www.redlers.com/mellelcompetitive.html 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 [http://www.apfelwiki.de/Tests/WordAlternativenTest 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]).+
- +
-===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.+
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Current revision

Last updated: 4 February 2016

This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with 2 comparable office suites - Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice - to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software.

NeoOffice 2015.4 vs. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 vs. LibreOffice 5.0.4

Performance Test NeoOffice 2015.4 Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 LibreOffice 5.0.4
General:
Price Payment of US$29.99 in Mac App Store $0.00 $0.00
Launch Time:
Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after reboot (cold start)
8 seconds 14 seconds 17 seconds
Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start)
4 seconds 5 seconds 6 seconds
Word Processor:
... with a 500,000 character document (approximately 125 pages long)
Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start)
5 seconds 4 seconds 4 seconds
Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application
1 second 1 second 1 second
Save
1 second 2 seconds 2 seconds
Page Preview
2 seconds 2 seconds 3 seconds
Print
10 seconds 13 seconds 10 seconds
Export/Save as PDF
6 seconds 6 seconds 7 seconds
Presentation:
... with a 12 slide document
Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start)
6 seconds 5 seconds 6 seconds
Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide
4 seconds 6 seconds 7 seconds
Time to complete slide show with transition set to Fade Smoothly, using space bar to advance slide
29 seconds 29 seconds 34 seconds
Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide
29 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds
Print
4 seconds 20 seconds 20 seconds
Export/Save as PDF
4 seconds 3 seconds 4 seconds

Notes:

  • Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
  • No other applications were running
  • Machine details: Mac OS X 10.11.2 running on a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini server with 4 GB of RAM
  • Spotlight privacy was enabled for all volumes
  • Automatic spell checking, grammar, capitalization and hyphenation were disabled
  • Sample 500,000 character word processing document was created from a Lorem Ipsum generation site and saved as an .odt file
  • Sample presentation document was obtained from this post in the Trinity forums and saved as a .ppt file
  • All print tests were output to the Mac OS X Preview application


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