Feature comparison updates?

[pluby]

Smokey,

Thanks for updating the feature comparison.

BTW, if you need a press release for NeoOffice 2.2.5, I have one at the following URL:

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/press_releases/NeoOffice_2.2.5.html

Patrick

[sardisson]

OK, I'm happy with the page now (or at least how it's set up).

It's terribly difficult to find useful information about Office 2008 (far more difficult than I recall when I did the looking for Office 2004 info), so anyone who has access to Office 2008, please fill in those ? cells (and verify any Y(?) or N(?) cells).

If there's anything that's unclear, or anything that's wrong, or anything that we should add, please say so

Smokey

[Lorinda]

Smokey:

I just looked at the comparison page, and I'm wondering about OOo 3.0RC1 and spell-checking. A while back, someone using one of the OOo 3.0 betas on the Mac ran into the "Spell Checker not available" issue; it turned out to be a third party spell checker issue like the ones we ran into when Neo shifted to OS X's native spell checker. Our fix it instructions in the wiki solved their problem. I presumed this meant OOo 3.0 was using Mac OSX's spell check dictionaries, but I don't know for sure.

Lorinda

P.S. I also thought I'd seen somewhere that OOo 3.0 was to include access to the Mac Address Book.....but that memory's pretty fuzzy.

[sardisson]

[Lorinda]

[Samwise]

[pluby]

[sardisson]

[yoxi]

I haven't seen this on the Neo/OOo comparison list (unless I've missed it) but to date, NeoOffice 2.2.5 will happily insert, display, print, & export .eps images (though they get rasterised on export to PDF, I think) whereas OOo v3RC1 (and DEV300_m31) is unable even to display them:

(removed image here, as it's just a waste of space )

- padmavyuha

[sardisson]

[yoxi]

[sardisson]

Now that 3.0 final is out, we should do a (hopefully-)final update of the 2.2.5 vs 2008 vs 3.0 feature comparison page.

I don't really think much has changed (I haven't had time to snag the 3.0 build and won't for a few days, probably), but anyone who has time and OOo 3 (or Office 2008), please do take a look at the page and see if everything is correct and if you can fill in any of the "?" items. (If any item is not clear, post here and I'll clarify what I meant it to mean and see about making the item more clear on the page).

Smokey

[sardisson]

One of the things that I think is an important distinction between Neo and the commercial offerings is the frequency with which bug fixes are released to users. Patrick and Ed are two of the hardest-working and most responsive developers out there, and the NeoOffice tradition of releasing patches every week-to-two-weeks is probably the best in the business.

I've added this to the Feature Comparison chart, along with a guesstimate that OOo will keep releasing new bug-fix builds every three months, though I don't know if that's the case.

Smokey

[sardisson]

I've made a quick pass through the 3.0 Feature Comparison to bring it up-to-date for 3.0 and OOo 3.0.1. Please let me know if there's anything missing/incorrect (or update yourself, if you have a wiki account).

Smokey

[sardisson]

Daniel's post about the press kit reminded me about the Feature Comparison pages, too.

I think now that 3.0.2 is in Early Access, we should create a new feature comparison that does Neo 3.0.2 (EA), Office 2008, and OOo 3.1.1, with the goal of having it ready when 3.0.2 leaves Early Access.

To that end, I've copied the existing 3.0 page to https://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_3.0.2_Feature_Comparison and have updated the version numbers to get us started. Patrick's added a lot of great new features in 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 that we'll need to add, plus we'll need to check out OOo 3.1.1.

Feel free to edit the page or post comments/questions/suggestions here.

Smokey