Sharon Nichols wrote: > is this program compatible with mac 10.4.7 ? > Yes, OpenOffice.org is available for both the Power PC and Intel MacIntosh systems. The following languages have official releases: American English, French, German and Japanese. These are available for download by following the download link at www.openoffice.org. There are other languages available as unofficial releases and are available from ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/MacOSX/2.0.3rc7. You need to know the ISO code for your language (en_US is American English, fr is French, de is German, etc.) and the type of processor used in your system (G3/4/5 is PPC, Intel Solo/Duo is Intel). Thus if you wanted to download the South African English version for a MacBook G4 you would look for OOo_2.0.4rc7_MacOSXPPC_en-ZA.dmg. The file will download to your desktop if you are using Firefox/Mozilla/Camino. Use of Safari is not suggested as the file transfer program used by Finder will not properly handle files as large as OpenOffice.org. Once you finish downloading the file, click on it to open and mount the disk image (the file is not usable unless you do this) The download will verify itself. If the file fails to open, attempt to download it a second time. Once the file opens there will be what appears to be four objects, but there are only three. Please read through the Readme file as it will advise you to install X11, a UNIX based windowing system that is used by OpenOffice.org. Once the X11 user package is installed, drag the OpenOffice.org 2.0 item to the Applications folder. Start the program and you will be asked a question about installing Mac system fonts. Follow the remaining steps and you should see a Writer window. To access the remaining programs, click on New and select the appropriate file type.
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