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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.
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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:
| Feature | NeoOffice/J | MS Office for Mac |
|---|---|---|
| General: | ||
| Localized user interface (number of languages) | 40* | 7* |
| International spelling checkers | 61** | 12** |
| Support for text entry in non-Roman scripts including South Asian, East Asian, right-to-left and complex text layout scripts. | YES | Some |
| Supported scripts or languages: | ||
| Arabic | YES | No |
| Cyrillic | YES | YES |
| Cherokee | ??? | YES |
| Chinese (Simplified) | YES | YES |
| Chinese (Traditional) | YES | YES |
| Devanagari (Indic languages) | YES | No |
| Greek | YES | YES |
| Hawaiian | ??? | YES |
| Hebrew | YES | No |
| Inuktitut | ??? | YES |
| Japanese | YES | YES |
| Korean | YES | YES |
| Roman (Western and Eastern European languages) | YES | YES |
| Vietnamese | ??? | No |
| Clean HTML code export (compliant with international web standards) | YES | No |
| Unified User Interface, reducing learning time and costs | YES | No |
| Type ahead functionality (optional) like many mobile phones have | YES | No |
| A logical, safe and suite-wide system for templates, so these are never accidentally updated | YES | No |
| Writer (word processor): | ||
| A logical style system that does not invent styles based on your layout choices. | YES | No |
| Functional bullet/list numbering | YES | No |
| The ability to import WordPerfect documents (thanks to the libwpd project) | YES | No |
| Calc (spreadsheet): | ||
| More conditional layout options for cells | YES | No |
| Style-enabled layout system for text and cells | YES | No |
| Impress (presentation): | ||
| The ability to export to Flash animation | YES | No |
| Superior (3D) font art possibilities. | YES | No |
| * NeoOffice/J ships with UIs for languages 12 languages; the other 28 are freely available in language packs. Office 2004 is available in English (all versions of Office 2004), and in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish (for some versions of Office 2004; must be ordered separately) [1]. | ||
| ** NeoOffice/J includes help files and a growing number of writing (proofing) tools for many languages from the OpenOffice.org project [2], [3], [4], [5]. Microsoft Office 2004 ships with proofing tools for English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, German, Danish, Swedish, Portuguese, Finnish, and Dutch [6]. | ||
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.
| Feature | NeoOffice/J | OpenOffice.org for Mac (X11) |
|---|---|---|
| Uses your normal Mac fonts (no conversion required) | YES | No |
| Smooth font display (Quartz anti-aliasing) | YES | No |
| Allows international keyboards and switches keyboards along with your Mac | YES | No |
| Optimized PDF generation | YES | No |
| Native Aqua menus | YES | No |
| Native OS X printing | YES | No |
| Native (styled) copy and paste support | YES | No |
| Drag-and-drop between other applications | YES | No |
| Normal Mac keyboard shortcuts | YES | No |
| Mouse wheel scrolling | YES | No |
| Integrated with Finder and major mail clients | YES | No |
Still To Do
In all fairness, NeoOffice/J is not perfect. No software is. Along with relatively large RAM requirements (minimum 256MB, 512MB recommended), there is always room for improvement. NeoOffice/J can (and will) get better. Take a look at the following comparison:
| Feature | NeoOffice/J | MS Office for Mac | OpenOffice.org for Mac (X11) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitmap printing at >300 dpi | No | Yes | Yes |
| Can print Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mac-style file navigation | No | Yes | No |
| Media Plugin support | No | Yes | No |
| Non-Mac keyboard shortcuts | Some | Some | Some |
| Table drawing options | Some | No | Some |
| 100% fully Aquafied | No | Yes | No |
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:
- The Official Screenshot at Planamesa Software.
- Four screenshots at this Wiki.
- A screenshot of NeoOffice/J with an alternative icon set.
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.
Profiles
Short bio on the people who dedicate themselves to Neo/J - Patrick and Ed (and probably several others with sustained contribution to the project. I'm new here, and really don't know who... but let all have the credit, they deserve it!)
--knutkja 16:19, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT)
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.
