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(CA-OPENOSX) Open OS X Ships Office 1.0 Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SWALL MEADOWS, Calif.--(OPENOSX-INC)--May 13, 2002-- OpenOSX, Inc., a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class open-source software, today began shipping their Office 1.0 CD to the budding Mac OS X community. AbiWord is an award-winning open source alternative to Microsoft Word. Gnumeric is a world-class spreadsheet with 95 percent of the functions of Microsoft Excel built-in. Guppi is a dynamic charting, drawing and graphing application integrated into Gnumeric spreadsheets. SodiPodi is a vector based image manipulation program, a popular graphics editor often compared to Adobe Illustrator. TeXShop is a typesetting editor and previewer for semi- automating the authoring of technical documents. OpenOSX's Office 1.0 CD will install this suite of powerful and flexible tools for Macintosh Operating System, Mac OS X, with ease. The Office CD is shipping immediately. The new version adds improved stability, performance and the addition of SodiPodi and TeXShop among other improvements. AbiWord can edit most Microsoft Word documents, Gnumeric edits most Microsoft Excel documents. SodiPodi can be used to edit documents in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. TeXShop edits DeVice Independent (DVI) file formats. All can print to PDF files with Mac OS X Print Center support. OpenOSX has a digital Screenshot Gallery of their Office product in action, on the World Wide Web available for viewing, printing or broadcasting at: http://OpenOSX.com/office/screenshots.html. The OpenOSX Office 1.0 CD is available for 40 U.S. dollars. Patrons of previous versions of the CD may upgrade for 10 U.S. dollars. OpenOSX is bundling the CD with The GNU Image Manipulation Program (The Gimp) with their Office 1.0 CD for 50 U.S. dollars. OpenOSX, Inc. is a company dedicated to serving, and expanding, the Macintosh community. Founded on the premise that many computer users are intimidated by the UNIX command-line, OpenOSX committed itself to one mission- bringing popular Unix software to both the "Unix-challenged" and the seasoned, Mac inclined system administrator in a friendly, "Mac Like" environment. More information about the OpenOSX Office CD is available electronically at http://OpenOSX.com/office/. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
