Comments on: Help! I can’t open this ISO standard OpenDocument file on my Mac!

By: James T. Kirk©

James T. Kirk© — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:06:40 +0000

You said it yourself: “Remember that Mac users are a whiney, pissy bunch who make themselves heard when we’re being neglected.” NeoOffice works, maybe not that fast, but it WILL OPEN ALL ODF’s which you need and when you have NO opened once, odf’s open just as fast as a Word document. I agree that it should be in Pages but it is probably Micro$oft’s requirement to Apple that they wil keep on supporting OSX by making MSOffice for Mac. If there was no MSOffice for Mac it is most likely that Apple would support ODF.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:09:00 +0000

NeoOffice is a beta, which is a strong indication that it is an unfinished piece of work. For example, you\’re still limited to printing at 300dpi when printing images. Also, it still feels and looks like a rushed port of a MCF app to Aqua - that still doesn\’t look like Aqua. Everything \”kinda\” looks like Aqua, but it is not Aqua.

Also, can you quantify \”slow as hell\”? Personally, I find that Office runs significantly faster on a MacBook than on my aging PowerBook. By comparison, it took 2 full minutes to launch NeoOffice, under 10 seconds to launch Word. I\’m glad you\’re happy with NeoOffice, but it\’s still not for me.

By: Juraj

Juraj — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:35:34 +0000

Well, I use Mac OS X and NeoOffice/J Aqua and I don’t see why it’s unfinished work. I had no single crash since I use it (I used it on Powerbook and now on my MacBook Pro). It does MS Office formats and also OpenDocument. I don’t know what you mean by OS integration, but I can open files by clicking on them, I have native printing and file selection dialogs and Spotlight searches in ODT files. I could not imagine what else do I need (unless I’m specifically looking into finding something).

On the other side, MS Office is still for PowerPC platform and is slow as hell (running through Rosetta).