Watching PPS
in [Mac Systems]
|
From: Paul Sture on 4 Jan 2010 20:45 In article <1jbo0b9.1y2fb2n11mr3paN%nospam(a)see.signature>, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > You might want to look up what heresay means. It does not mean that the > statement is non-factual. Testifying about what someone else said, or in > this case, what the license terms are, is heresay. Getting the data by > other than heresay would mean going directly to the source and reading > it there, rather than reading what someone else says that the license > says. Sorry to be pedantic, but are we talking about hearsay or heresy here? -- Paul Sture
From: Mike Dee on 5 Jan 2010 18:53 Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: > Mike Dee <emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid> wrote: > >> Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: [...] >> > or NeoOffice, the free, more Macified version of >> > OpenOffice.org. <http://www.neooffice.org/> >> >> That "may have" been the case prior to version 3.x of >> OpenOffice.org, my preference these days is for OO.o >> [...] > > Here is a link to compare some features of NeoO3, OOo3, and > M$O2008: > <http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Feature_Comparison> If there was one thing that would find me using NeoOffice in favour of OOo it would be this: "EPS preview and printing", as noted in the above linked page. In OOo this is non-existant on any platform let alone Mac. Thanks for the link. -- dee
From: E Z Peaces on 9 Jan 2010 08:58
Fred Moore wrote: > In article <emteedee-A17656.12361902012010(a)newsfeed.aioe.org>, > Mike Dee <emteedee(a)emteedee.invalid> wrote: > >> In article <fmoore-BAFE9E.17094501012010(a)mail.eternal-september.org>, >> Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: >> >>> E Z Peaces <cash(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> James Hopone wrote: >>>>> Other then MS Power Point what is a good program for Mac that I can >>>>> open >>>>> and watch a PPS? >> [...] >>>> Open Office. It's free. >>> or NeoOffice, the free, more Macified version of OpenOffice.org. >>> <http://www.neooffice.org/> >> That "may have" been the case prior to version 3.x of OpenOffice.org, my >> preference these days is for OO.o >> >> YMMV > > Please don't get me wrong, OOo3 Aqua is an excellent app. It is after > all the basis of NeoO3. However, having worked with both, I find that > NeoO is generally easier to work with and (more importantly) more > stable. Also, NeoO has the Mac and Mac user at the heart of its reason > for existence. Its goal is to make an excellent word processing app even > better **for*Mac*users**. It has many large and small features for Mac > users that OOo doesn't have. > > Here is a link to compare some features of NeoO3, OOo3, and M$O2008: > <http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Feature_Comparison> > > And here is a NeoO forum thread in which I participated discussing the > issue of NeoO3 vs OOo3: > <http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=69 > 03&highlight=> Thanks, I'll look at NeoOffice again. I tried it a few days ago and immediately missed the grammar checker I have for OpenOffice. Then I discovered that having OpenOffice check grammar as I wrote was what was bogging down my PPC (and most of the alarms were false). |