Open OS X Ships Office 1.0
From the press release, "OpenOSX, Inc., a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class open-source software, today began shipping their Office 1.0 CD to the budding Mac OS X community.
"AbiWord is an award-winning open source alternative to Microsoft Word. Gnumeric is a world-class spreadsheet with 95 percent of the functions of Microsoft Excel built-in. Guppi is a dynamic charting, drawing and graphing application integrated into Gnumeric spreadsheets. SodiPodi is a vector based image manipulation program, a popular graphics editor often compared to Adobe Illustrator. TeXShop is a typesetting editor and previewer for semi- automating the authoring of technical documents.
"OpenOSX's Office 1.0 CD will install this suite of powerful and flexible tools for Macintosh Operating System, Mac OS X, with ease. The Office CD is shipping immediately. The new version adds improved stability, performance and the addition of SodiPodi and TeXShop among other improvements.
"AbiWord can edit most Microsoft Word documents, Gnumeric edits most Microsoft Excel documents. SodiPodi can be used to edit documents in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. TeXShop edits DeVice Independent (DVI) file formats. All can print to PDF files with Mac OS X Print Center support.
"OpenOSX has a digital Screenshot Gallery of their Office product in action, on the World Wide Web available for viewing, printing or broadcasting.
"AbiWord is an award-winning open source alternative to Microsoft Word. Gnumeric is a world-class spreadsheet with 95 percent of the functions of Microsoft Excel built-in. Guppi is a dynamic charting, drawing and graphing application integrated into Gnumeric spreadsheets. SodiPodi is a vector based image manipulation program, a popular graphics editor often compared to Adobe Illustrator. TeXShop is a typesetting editor and previewer for semi- automating the authoring of technical documents.
"OpenOSX's Office 1.0 CD will install this suite of powerful and flexible tools for Macintosh Operating System, Mac OS X, with ease. The Office CD is shipping immediately. The new version adds improved stability, performance and the addition of SodiPodi and TeXShop among other improvements.
"AbiWord can edit most Microsoft Word documents, Gnumeric edits most Microsoft Excel documents. SodiPodi can be used to edit documents in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. TeXShop edits DeVice Independent (DVI) file formats. All can print to PDF files with Mac OS X Print Center support.
"OpenOSX has a digital Screenshot Gallery of their Office product in action, on the World Wide Web available for viewing, printing or broadcasting.
"The OpenOSX Office 1.0 CD is available for 40 U.S. dollars. Patrons of previous versions of the CD may upgrade for 10 U.S. dollars."
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