On 2/17/05, Gib Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Neolithic Office for Java(TM) (NeoOffice/J) is OpenOffice for the Mac 
> without requiring X11 or messing with Unix libraries.  It installs 
> like a Mac application, from a simple installer.  

<snip>

> So, what's the downside?  NeoOffice/J is currently built on 
> OpenOffice v1.1.2; any bugs in that code will surely be present in 
> NeoOffice/J.  There are a very few font issues, but they affect 
> primarily "oddball" fonts and will probably be resolved with the move 
> to a newer version of Java.  And at the moment, NeoOffice/J is 
> lacking plug-in, applet, and inter-application drag-and-drop 
> support--all of which are also lacking in OpenOffice, but forthcoming 
> in NeoOffice/J.

Actually - those issues have been addressed.  From the page you linked to:

<quote>

March 30, 2005: NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate is released. With
this release, NeoOffice/J now supports all features in OpenOffice.org
1.1.4 including drag-and-drop between NeoOffice/J and other
applications. The source and binaries can be downloaded here.

December 21, 2004: NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta is released. With this
release, NeoOffice/J now supports all features in OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
including mouse wheel and drag-and-drop support. The source and
binaries can be downloaded here.

</quote>

The latest version of NeoOffice/J is based on the latest version of
OOo.  It supports drag and drop between apps, mouse scroll wheels, and
all the latest bugfixes from OOo.  The latest version is NeoOffice/J
1.1 Release Candidate.

There's no reason at all not to use NeoOffice/J if you have a Mac OS X
computer.  It's the best of all possible worlds...

*Eagerly awaiting his pre-ordered copy of Tiger....*

-Chad Smith

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