Hello, I just down loaded and installed NeoOffice. The first MS word document I opened lost much of its formatting( tables disappeared). The second did not display properly either (images were not displayed properly). Any other ideas for a non MS word processor that will preserve the formatting of a word doc? David On May 1, 2005, at 8:55 PM, David L. Presberg wrote: > Better than OpenOffice is NeoOffice/J. It has *all* of the > apps that "M$ Office" has, opens .doc, .xls, and .ppt files (with > what one would expect w.r.t. font-issues and the definitions > of "Default" styles from the sender's machine to your machine, > of course). It also has a very good outside-of-PowerPoint > drawing tool. > > You can get it, for free since it is in the same Open Software > family as OpenOffice, from: > > http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/download.php > > You do *not* have to install an X11 windows system for it because > it is implemented in Java. But it is based on OpenOffice code > so gets the benefit of all the developers/maintainers of that > project (all the way back to Sun's StarOffice) as well as a > very dedicated group of Mac OS-X Macintosh-tailored version > maintainers. > > Note there is a change in the Java support by Mac OS X between > Panther and Tiger, so some Java-based software may have > some problems. The NeoOffice/J maintainers have already > diagnosed the issues -- see the forum thread at: > > http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php? > name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1329 > > for the fixes that allow you to run NeoOffice/J as well as > any old or new Java code in Tiger. > > I've been using this set of Office-replacement tools for a while > and I find them more capable than what I had used in AppleWorks. > You'll probably want to "export" important files out of AppleWorks > into their equivalent MS Office versions so that they can be read > by NeoOffice/J. Unfortunately, it doesn't read AppleWorks file > formats since those have been fairly private to Apple (i.e., not > sufficiently, publically, documented). > > -- David L. Presberg > Software Engineer: Compilers and Language-Related Tools > > RE: > > Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:41:31 -0400 > > From: Anne Keller-Smith <earthpigz at earthlink.net> > > Subject: [G4] Appleworks > > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." > > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > > Message-ID: <DF189FF7-BA5F-11D9-B438-00039368BC92 at earthlink.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > I read in Macworld that Appleworks is going bye bye. > > > > Sort of a problem for me because I need it for budget and for when > > Windows users send me Word docs. That's sort of all. > > > > I also notice that Maclink seems to not work at present. ??? > > > > What are you all doing about Appleworks? I could just keep on > using it > > forever except if new versions of Word don't open, I am sunk. > > > > Not interested in buying MS product right now, humph. Don't > really use. > > Would buy Quicken for the budget. (Although I like the simplicity of > > the spreadsheet.) > > > > Anne Keller Smith > > Down to Earth Web Design > > mailto:earthpigz at earthlink.net > > http://www.downtoearthweb.com > > AND RE: > > Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 14:09:23 -0400 > > From: Johns Maillist <mymaillist at mac.com> > > Subject: Re: [G4] Appleworks > > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." > > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > > Message-ID: <04FDFF8C-85B1-4B2E-9253-2470326C3AFE at mac.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > > Add X11 to your system and use OpenOffice! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >