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Other OOo Print Resources

garym — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:52:03 -0400

Some other recommended OpenOffice.org print resources only very slightly out of date and still very useful:

OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit ("website":http://www.getopenoffice.org/main.html)
By: Solveig Haugland and Floyd Jones
2003/Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OOoSwitch ("website":http://www.hentzenwerke.com/)
By: Tamar E. Granor
2003/Hentzenwerke Publishing
OpenOffice.org for Dummies
by Gurdy Leete, Ellen Finkelstein, Mary Leete
2003/For Dummies
also available in PDF ebook format
OpenOffice.org ClueSheets
2002/Publishing Power

OOExtras

garym — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:51:07 -0500

Need label templates? Business documents? Clip-art? There's an emerging project at ooextras.sourceforge.net where the community of OpenOffice.org have contributed their best templates for general use.

Initial Impressions on 1.1RC

garym — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:56:27 -0400

We've been charged with looking after a software requirements specification by our clients and, sadly, the document is in Microsoft WordXP format; on receipt of it, I loaded it into OpenOffice.org's 1.0.3.1 release only to watch as it gleefully tumbled into a "repaginating" process that added at least a dozen pages to the document length. It was beginning to look like taking on this doc was going to cost me big money for a whole second computer plus the cost of MsOffice when the serendipidous announcement of 1.1RC popped up in the aggregators.

I haven't actually started to work on the document, so I can't vouch for much about 1.1RC, but I can say that (1) it didn't repaginate the MsWord document and (2) when I closed the document without making any changes, it didn't ask if I wanted to save it (the old version considered the conversion to be a document change).

So far, so good.

OGo a No-go

garym — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:50:51 -0400

Russel Pavlicek at Newsforge offers some sobering comments in his review of OpenGroupware.org to quell the hype just a little -- Russell's an expert, and even he couldn't get it to run.