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OOo4Kids

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:51:03 +0000

OOo4Kids is a lighter version of OpenOffice. It is supported by the French association EducOOo. As part of its activities in close relationship with teachers, the development team identified a need: a suite dedicated to education and particularly in the first degree.

OOo4Kids is made for educational purposes, with the idea of contributing back to the OpenOffice.org project (http://www.openoffice.org) through the OpenOffice.org project Education and student projects.

Gobby

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:16:36 +0000

Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

Gobby’s main features include:

- Realtime Collaboration through encrypted channels (version 0.4.0 and up)

- Each user has its own changeable colour to be identified by others

- IRC-like chat for communicating with your partners while coding

- Syntax highlighting for most programming languages

- Session password protection

- Multiple documents in one session

- Drag’n'drop of documents into Gobby

- Document synchronisation on request

- Zeroconf support

- Unicode support

- and more…

KOffice

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:43:24 +0000

KOffice is an integrated open source office suite, comprising (principally) KWord, KSpread and KPresenter. Combined, these software components form an intuitive desktop publisher application. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with pleasure and ease.

KWord is an intuitive word processor and desktop publisher application. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with pleasure and ease.

KSpread is a fully-featured spreadsheet application. Use it to quickly create spreadsheets with formulas and charts, to calculate and organize your data.

KPresenter is a powerful and easy to use presentation application. You can dazzle your audience with stunning slides containing images, videos, animation and more.

CELTX

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:37:51 +0000

Celtx is the world’s first all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces ‘paper, pen & binder’ pre-production with a digital approach that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

RubyRoom

admin — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:48:35 +0000

Rubyroom is a full-screen text editor. Full screen gives you a complete workspace for your text, and nothing else. No IM windows popping up, no more “you got mail” small animations in the background that take away your concentration.

Bean

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:36:23 +0000

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It was built for Mac OS X.

Some of its core features are as follows: live word count, a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics, a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale, an Inspector panel with lots of sliders, date-stamped backups, autosaving, a page layout mode, an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue), an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces), selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc., a floating windows option (like Stickies has), easy to use menus and more…

NeoOffice

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:31:04 +0000

of the free/open source OpenOffice.org office suite that is ported to Mac OS X. It implements nearly all of the features of the corresponding OpenOffice.org version, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and graphics program. It is developed by Planamesa Software, and uses Java technology to integrate OpenOffice.org — originally developed for Solaris and Linux — with the Aqua interface of Mac OS X.

Scribus

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:28:59 +0000

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Native versions are available for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows. It is known for its broad feature set of page layout features comparable to leading commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

It is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.

Abiword

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:25:34 +0000

AbiWord is an award winning word processor whose is derived from the root of the Spanish word abierto, meaning “open”. It is supported on Linux, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, BeOS, AmigaOS 4.0 (through its Cygnix X11 engine), and other operating systems.

AbiWord has a comprehensive language database with multiple languages. It also has support for tables and footnotes, as well as a spell checker and an advanced grammar checking system

OpenOffice

admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:37:40 +0000

OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS.

Available in over 65 supported languages with more being constantly added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), Windows, Mac OS X (X11), and numerous other platforms. Our porting page lists the platforms (ports) that OpenOffice.org can run on.

Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL open-source license, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. And, because the native file format for OpenOffice.org is the vendor-independent OpenDocument open standard, interoperability is easy, making future development and adoption more certain.