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NeoOffice®


O objetivo do NeoOffice é prover uma suíte de escritório totalmente livre e completa para Mac OS X, baseada no projeto internacional do OpenOffice.org e com o visual que você espera de qualquer aplicação Macintosh.

O projeto OpenOffice.org é uma grande força-tarefa open-source para criar uma maravilhosa suíte, incluindo um processador de textos, planilha de cálculos, programa de apresentações, programa de desenho, banco de dados e muito mais. Com o OpenOffice.org você pode facilmente importar, editar e compartilhar arquivos com usuários de outros programas como o Microsoft Office ou o WordPerfect.

While OpenOffice.org is developed primarily for Windows and Unix systems and has a user-interface geared for those operating systems, NeoOffice has made tremendous breakthroughs in offering the same to Macintosh users and making it look just like a Mac application!

How does it do this? Get ready for a pretty technical explanation—NeoOffice adapts OpenOffice.org code that uses the X11 windowing system and it then takes advantage of Mac OS X's cool Java integration to tap into the traditional Macintosh user-interface elements. The result? An office experience that feels like any other application on your Mac.

At least that's the goal. At present (June 2007), NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features, including a Mac installer, native menus in the white bar at the top of the screen, Aqua scrollbars and buttons, native print dialog box and printing, Mac-like keyboard shortcuts, mousewheel support, access to all your Mac fonts, and much, much more! It's probably localized into your native language, too.

Best of all, NeoOffice is already remarkably stable at version 2.1. It's actually ready to use right now. Thousands of people and organizations use NeoOffice to do their daily work!

Here's a caveat though—while NeoOffice is quite stable and feature-complete, it has not entirely adopted the Mac look-and-feel. There are still some bits of the old Windows/Unix interface in there. For example, the toolbars and dialogues don't have that familiar, consistent Mac look. Many of the 12,000 icons used in the application look more like Windows icons than Mac ones. Other bits of the interface may look "just a bit off".

We're working on all this. Slowly but surely, and with your help, NeoOffice is moving closer and closer to being indistinguishable from any other Macintosh application. Patches are being released constantly that replace an old Windows/Unix-feature with a nice shiny Mac one.

So if you think $300+ is a bit much to pay for an office suite, we encourage you to try NeoOffice for free and let us know what you think. There's no catch—like its parent, OpenOffice.org, downloading and using NeoOffice doesn't cost a penny. Copy it as many times as you wish.

All we ask is that you report any bugs you find so they can be fixed. If you are a developer, we'd love to have your code. Or, if you are willing and able to support the development effort via a monetary donation, your contribution will be very much appreciated. You can do so via Paypal at the NeoOffice web site. There are other ways you can contribute to the project, too.

At present, there are very few NeoOffice developers, so every contribution helps.


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