I recently put together a set of complex documents with many, many images in the text - some locked inside frames, others 'floating'. You only have to look at the OO forum to see how many problems people can encounter. For straight word-processing it works exceptionally well BUT, once you start integrating images into documents, then it can be prone to all manner of corruptions and crashes.

In many respects, Open Office is a boon and, of course, it's genuinely free. Other active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed ) and NeoOffice (commercial, and available only for macOS).'Writer' excellent for basic wordprocessing, but prone to crashes and corruptions when you integrate images. Apache renamed the software Apache OpenOffice.

In 2011, Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, announced that it would no longer offer a commercial version of the suite and donated the project to the Apache Foundation. It was distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (LGPL) early versions were also available under the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL). was primarily developed for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Solaris, and later for OS X, with ports to other operating systems. It could also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office. Its default file format was the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/ IEC standard, which originated with. OpenOffice included a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base). exe without JRE) ĭual-licensed under the SISSL and GNU LGPL ( 2 Beta 2 and earlier) Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris ġ43.4 MB (3.3.0 en-US Windows.

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