OpenOSX Office 0.9, Now Shipping.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SWALL SWALL Southwestern Association of Law Libraries MEADOWS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2001 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. Gimp is The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a popular graphics editor often compared to PhotoShop. OpenOSX's package will install this suite of powerful and flexible tools for Macintosh Operating System (operating system) Macintosh Operating System - (Mac OS) Apple Computer, Inc.'s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder. , Mac OS X, with ease. AbiWord 0.9.4.1 is a full-featured, award-winning word processor that can edit Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. and RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. documents. It boasts: multiple columns, on-the-fly spell checking, style sheets, multiple language support and more. AbiWord can write RTF, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , XHTML, PalmDoc and ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. document formats. Gnumeric 0.74 can edit Microsoft Excel, Lotus 123, MultiPlan, Plan Perfect, HTML and CSV file formats. It is a complete spreadsheet that offers a comprehensive function suite, data analysis tools, data consolidation, cell formatting, multiple "undos," search and replace. Gnumeric will write Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, CSV and Data Interchange Format See DIF. files. Gimp 1.2.1 may be used to edit Adobe Photoshop, TIFF, JPEG and PNG file formats. Gimp offers complete image manipulation tools, filters, plug-ins, text and effects. It also has powerful image automation capabilities. It can write Photoshop (with layers intact), TIFF, JPEG and PNG file formats. All of the OpenOSX product's ship with complete online help, documentation, and limited-support, configured source code and more. OpenOSX has a digital Screenshot Gallery of their Office product in action, on the World Wide Web available for viewing, printing or broadcasting at: http://OpenOSX.com/office/screenshots.html. The OpenOSX Office 0.9 CD is available for 30 U.S. dollars. OpenOSX is offering an upgrade to the 1.0 version of their CD for 10 U.S. dollars that will include improvements and added vector illustration and graphing/plotting software. The OpenOSX Office package will install and configure the following list of software packages: AbiWord 0.9.4.1 Gnumeric 0.74 Gimp 1.2.1 (optional) XFree86 4.1.99.1 XDarwin 1.0.4 Ghostview 1.5 Oroborous Window Manager ORBit 0.5.11 Gnome Application Library 0.17 Bonobo bonobo, smaller of two species of chimpanzee, genus Pan. Whereas the common chimpanzee, P. troglodytes, lives in forests across most of equatorial Africa, the bonobo, P. 1.0.10 Glib 1.2.8 Libxml 1.8.14 GnomePrint 0.31 DYLib More information about the OpenOSX Office CD is available electronically at http://OpenOSX.com/office/. OpenOSX is a trademark owned by OpenOSX.com, Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp., Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owner. |
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