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-The name of the orginasition
that maintains the codebase for the OpenOffice.org OfficeSuite
(Yes
, its also the name
of the software
)
+The name of the organisation
that maintains the codebase for the identically named OfficeSuite.
+
+!
OpenOffice.org is [Free] and CrossPlatform, running on many [Unix] variants
(including [Linux]
, of course) MicrosoftWindows, and [MacOSX].
+
+Some features:
+* It is pretty good at importing MicrosoftWord documents (other than VisualBasic macros).
+* Version 1.1 and later can export to [PDF] natively, so you can type up documents and then make nice PDF files with TrueType fonts in it. (The [PDF] page lists some good reasons why emailing PDF files around is better than emailing word-processor files around).
+* The Debian package of version 1.1 uses native [GTK]2 widgets, so it fits nicely into a [GNOME] desktop. (There is a subproject of openoffice to use native widgets on all platforms - see http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/. GTK and Win32 are already supported but it is not yet in
the main [CVS] branch. Good on Debian for including it already!
)
+* Redhat, Ximian and Debian are all using the same CVS server on gnome.org which includes these additions.
+* Open file format - it uses [XML] so you will never be in the situation where you have old documents but can't extract any information out of it.
+* Version 1.1 is much improved over version 1., especially in terms of start-up time.
