The OpenOffice Project has posted the first alpha of OpenOffice for Mac OS X Aqua. Previous version required X Windows. This one doesn't.
OpenOffice.org Aqua requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
This is an alpha test version so that developers and users can find out what works and not, and make comments on how to improve it.
There are a number of things that do not work in this version including, but not limited to:
- You cannot print
- PDF export does not properly work as the text won't show on the page right
- Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
- Copy and paste does not fully work
- OpenOffice.org will crash after quitting
- Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
- Impress will not recognise multiple monitors
Better late than never. OpenOffice is dual licensed under the LGPL and Sun Industry Standards Source License.
