Mittwoch Oktober 05, 2005

AbiWord gets OpenDocument support from Nokia
AbiWord just added OpenDocument support:

"Support for the OpenDocument file format has been donated by INdT, Nokia's Technology Institute. Currently the OpenDocument import filter is basically complete, with support for styles, headers/footers, lists, image wrapping, text boxes, tables, footnotes/endnotes and tables of contents. OpenDocument export is planned as well and will be added during the 2.4.x series."

The announcement can be found here.
( Okt 05 2005, 02:56:04 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Microsoft denies PDF support is a reaction to Massachusetts decision"
"Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of the Microsoft Office product development group, had earlier stated that the company received 120,000 requests a month for the ability to produce PDFs from within Office.

In any case it seems unlikely that the ability to save Word or Excel documents as PDFs will sway the Massachusetts Information Technology Division, especially since Sun Microsystems' StarOffice and the open source OpenOffice.org project have supported the creation of PDFs since 2003, and also support OpenDocument."

The full article can be found here.
( Okt 05 2005, 02:19:32 PM CEST ) Permalink

RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady about Sun, Google and OpenOffice.org
"And then there's OpenOffice.org. To me this is far and away the most interesting of the potential collaboration areas (with the possible exception of OpenSolaris, but that was not really discussed a great deal on either call unlike OpenOffice.org). One of the questions I was asked at least a dozen times between yesterday and today was what Google might bring to the table with respect to the Microsoft Office alternative so often in the news of late? Well, resources for one. A web version? Possible, but I think it'd be very different functionally than the current codebase - a lot simpler. While I'll leave that speculation for another time - as we'd be here a long time - I will say that even a tacit acknowledgement of OpenOffice.org as a credible platform from Google would be a big win for the project. If they can further it technically, all the better, but Google's got sufficient clout at this point to have value just as a marketing channel."

The full blog entry can be found here.
( Okt 05 2005, 07:36:29 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Here are some ways Google and Sun could work together"
Interesting ideas:

"Let's just say you are using StarOffice Impress, which is Sun's counterpart to PowerPoint. How about a Picasa icon? Or maybe even Google Earth, for import of geographical images of that empty landscape you want to build your plant at for a presentation you are showing to bankers and developers?

Or say you are writing a document in StarOffice Writer, Sun's counterpart to (sorry, you get only one guess), Microsoft Word. You want to know more about a given subject. You simply enter a search term in the Google toolbar within Writer, click,and your browser opens up in a new window with a list of search results.

Or, for that matter, you want to share that Impress spreadsheet with your colleague. Why not IM him or her by means of GoogleTalk button along the Impress toolbar?"

The full article can be found here.
( Okt 05 2005, 07:30:49 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Making an OpenOffice.org 2.0 presentation"
"I've poked around in OpenOffice.org 2.0 a lot. I've read the specs, and I've tried a lot of different features. But I haven't created a new Impress presentation from scratch. So, this article is about my first shot at that task."
The full article can be found here.
( Okt 05 2005, 07:17:42 AM CEST ) Permalink

Lenovo bundles StarOffice
"Sun Microsystems and Lenovo have announced an agreement to bundle the StarOffice 8 desktop productivity suite in Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad R51e notebook."
The full article can be found here.
( Okt 05 2005, 07:13:09 AM CEST ) Permalink