OOo on the Mac
There are often questions about how to get OpenOffice.org for the Macintosh OS. While there is no office OOo port to the Mac, I believe, there are several good versions that work on the Max. Jean-Christophe Helary volunteered some of the required information.
It is important to mention that NeoOffice/J is released as stable from today (the last patch to NeoOffice/J 1.1RC being the 8th) and that an OSX adapted OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 is thus accessible to OSX users from now on.
People who feel challenged by using OpenOffice.org on OSX (Tiger or Panther) with X11 should use NeoOffice/J instead since it brings all the power of OOo to their favorite system plus much better integration (especially regarding font access, character input system use etc...)
Both OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and NeoOffice/J 1.1 (based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4) can be downloaded from:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
NeoOffice/J 1.1 can be downloaded directly from:
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/download.php
Enjoy !
Jean-Christophe Helary
There is also OOo 2.0 beta for the Mac.
There are currently OOo 2.0 beta versions for OSX.
OOo works perfectly well on OSX. There are 2 "versions", the official one that makes use of the X11 windowing system (included in the OSX install disks), and another free version called NeoOffice/J that does not. Both are referenced on the official OOo pages for OSX.
As for the beta, their are constantly built and rebuilt and there are no release candidate that I know of right now. But they exist and they work fairly well (with X11) on either Panther or Tiger.
JC Helary
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Last Edited 2 July 2005