NeoOffice/J Press Kit

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Writing a story about NeoOffice®/J?

This Online Press Kit offers press materials and additional background information relating to the release of NeoOffice®/J 1.1 (see NeoOffice/J 1.1 Announcement). While the Press Kit gathers the most pertinent details and summaries, you will find useful related information elsewhere on this "wiki" web site.

Key Features

The NeoOffice®/J office suite is a powerful bundle of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing applications for Mac OS X. Based on the latest stable OpenOffice.org codebase, NeoOffice®/J offers a full feature set that individual and business users alike expect from a complete office solution (see feature listing here).

NeoOffice®/J 1.1 extensively integrates OpenOffice.org with the Mac OS X experience. Key Macintosh features added to NeoOffice®/J but missing from OpenOffice.org include a standard Mac OS X installer, a native Aqua menu bar, use of the Mac OS X printing system, full clipboard support, drag-and-drop, Mac "command" key shortcuts, mouse scrolling, integration with major Mac email clients and native support for Mac fonts. NeoOffice®/J 1.1 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, and 10.4.x.

Perhaps most significantly, NeoOffice®/J is free, open source software. By "free", we mean that unlike comparable office suites such as Microsoft™ Office, one may legally make and use as many copies of NeoOffice®/J as one likes—without expense or costly licensing fees. But "free" has a second meaning. NeoOffice®/J is open-source, meaning the source-code (the written set of instructions in computer language) has been "freed" for anyone to use, modify, or redistribute in accordance with a license created just for this purpose, the GNU General Public License (GPL).

NeoOffice®/J vs. Microsoft™ Office vs. OpenOffice.org

See our Feature Comparison page for a detailed comparison of three Mac office suites: NeoOffice®/J, Microsoft™ Office, and OpenOffice.org/X11.

Graphics & Images

These NeoOffice®/J logos, icons, and screenshots are in medium- and high-quality. Feel free to use them in print and or web coverage of the NeoOffice®/J 1.1 release.

Medium- and High-Quality Logos, Headers, & Application Icons

Transparent PNG
(Logo/Application Icon)

NeoOffice®/J logo (PNG)
256x256, 72 dpi, 83 KB

JPEG
(Logo/Application Icon)

NeoOffice®/J logo (JPG)
128x128, 72 dpi, 9 KB
 

JPEG
(Header)

NeoOffice®/J header (JPG)
415x95, 72 dpi, 30 KB
 

Screenshots

Background Information

History of NeoOffice®/J

  • NeoHistory/relationship with OOo summary, link to the full version (1 pgh?)

Relevant Articles

  • Links to other relevant articles [what do we want?]

(sardisson has a number of things bookmarked for future additions to the links in the NeoHistory article which may be useful, depending on what sort of articles we want)

Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • Links to design/development FAQ and/or some key FAQs reposted (not Java, but C++ (99%) and Carbon and Java (1%), "NeoOffice/J is a Mac OS X native version of OpenOffice.org that uses small amounts of Java code for graphics drawing and configuration." etc.)
    • Is Neo/J a Java Application?
      No, Neo/J is 99% C/C++ like the rest of OOo. NeoOffice®/J is a Mac OS X native version of OpenOffice.org that uses small amounts of Java code for graphics drawing and configuration.
    • Relationship with OOo
    • Why GPL [answer in planamesa/faq.php]
    • Next question? etc.
    • What are some non-design/development FAQs?
    • For more design/development FAQs, see design/development FAQ and the official Neo/J FAQ [? there are some "mean-but-true" answers there; do we want to link it?]

Testimonials

Just to let you know - I've been using Neo[Office®/J] with patch 6 as my routine office working app since the patch was released. I can't find a bug so far using native and M$ [Microsoft Office] format files in the word processor and the spreadsheet. Everything that's been switched to Apple behaviour behaves as Apple Apps should, and everything else is OOo [OpenOffice.org] 1.1.x, indistinguishable from my W32 [Windows] box at work.

Cheers, Phil

in a post on the trinity forums, June 2005 [1]


  • is writing up a brief bit about his migration of the World Scout Bureau from Microsoft Office to Neo/J; this is our "centerpiece" testimonial (nearly ready)
  • Others?
  • How can we include FanFiction.net recommending us over OOo for their Mac users?
  • Will someone PM (or post again in the thread, if the author is a "guest") the authors of the posts below and ask if we can use them for the press kit. Everything on trinity is © the poster....


--Ovvldc 17:10, 21 Apr 2005 (CDT) Links to migration stories:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1041 (anonCoward, falk, pd170)
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1223 (Glenner)
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1035 (Guest, but linked to from NeoOffice/J Feature Comparison)
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6153#6153 ()
http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=529&pos=24 (see last comment, Felix S.)
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9137#9137 (a lite, general post from )
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1434 (Happy User)
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9314#9314 (Guest, signed as Phil) Done

Also try the Versiontracker feedback pages for upbeat stories.

VersionTracker and MacUpdate ratings and reviews

--sardisson 10:40, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT) 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, but we can't do that within the wiki.

--sardisson 07:06, 23 Apr 2005 (CDT) I've put up a page pulling our VT rating (it can only pull the overall one) and the last 4+-star reviews at http://homepage.mac.com/sardisson/neoj/vt_ratings.html

Community

Over the years, a vibrant NeoOffice®/J community has emerged at trinity.neooffice.org ("trinity"), where users and developers offer support, bug reporting, beta-testing, artwork, documentation, etc.

The community is a ever-expanding group of active users from all over the world who aid in the developmen

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