[G4] Appleworks -- look at NeoOffice/J rather than MS Office or OpenOffice

[David Sims]

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!
>
>
>
>
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