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Software News   Software News : Open Office available for OS4
   posted by Stephen_Robinson on 1-Apr-2006 17:52:54 (5401 reads)
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=office/wordprocessing/openoffice.lha

No idea if it's an April Fool Joke, as I can't download the whole 9 Meg file. It's not very funny, if it is, but when does that stop April Fool jokers?

maybe it's kosha.. [staff]nahh...[/staff]
    

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Samwel 
Re: Open Office available for OS4
Posted on 2-Apr-2006 9:03:51
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@Tomas

Hey, it was only supposed to be the word processor


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Re: Open Office available for OS4
Posted on 2-Apr-2006 9:16:52
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Well, a joke.

Someone wrote:
Quote:
This is something we need.

Do you really need OpenOffice on AmigaOS? It's not a very Amiga-ish application, considering it's size and speed.

Really, think about it! What do you need? For one thing, you need to be able to read (and maybe write) some MS proprietary formats, as long as so many people keep producing those formats. And then you need an office application, where a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, etc. are combined. And that application should be an Amiga-look-and-feel application to be a good one, right?

OpenOffice is not it!

OpenOffice is huge (compared to Amiga applications)! And it's slow. Here on my G4 Mac, I use NeoOffice, a Mac-converted version of OpenOffice, and it takes ages just to start the application. If I could find a fast office package, that did the job, I would trash OpenOffice. In my day-job, I suggest to people, that they switch from MS Office to OpenOffice, because I see OpenOffice as a superiour application to MS Office, and people used to MS Office can easily switch over. On the Amiga, we never had MS Office (and thanks for that), so we can look at the situation with fresh eyes.

The Amiga way is to use DataTypes to support the needed formats. And then have a non-bloated, fast office package with clever functionality. That's what you want!

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Re: Open Office available for OS4
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@Geomol

Quote:
Do you really need OpenOffice on AmigaOS? It's not a very Amiga-ish application, considering it's size and speed.

I just installed FinalWriter on my A1 yesterday (I already had WordWorth5)... And it's so quick.
Would it be possible to write some kind of plugin to allow to import/export M$Word Document ?

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Re: Open Office available for OS4
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Can FinalWriter read from datatypes?
Then maybe docdatatypes can be used:
http://go.to/docdatatypes

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Re: Open Office available for OS4
Posted on 3-Apr-2006 23:07:01
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@ Thread

That's fantastic! lol

What a laugh, even I thought 9 mb was way to small, I still clicked on the link.
See it for what it was, a joke. lol
Good on you Hyperion guys, this community does get way too serious sometimes, was a ripper of a prank ;) lol


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