Apache OpenOffice Writer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from OpenOffice.org Writer) Jump to: navigation, search Apache OpenOffice Writer Apache OpenOffice Writer 3.4 Developer(s) StarOffice StarDivision (1984-1999) OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems (1999-2010) Oracle Corporation (2010-2011) Apache OpenOffice Apache Software Foundation (2011 – present) Stable release 3.4.1 (August 24, 2012; 9 months ago (2012-08-24)) Preview release None Development status Active Operating system Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, Linux Type Word processor License LGPL version 3 (OpenOffice.org 2 Beta 2 and earlier are dual-licensed under the SISSL and LGPL) Apache License 2.0 (Apache OpenOffice 3.4 and later) Website www.openoffice.org

Apache OpenOffice Writer formerly known as OpenOffice.org Writer is the word processor component of the Apache OpenOffice software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some of their features.

As with the entire Apache OpenOffice suite, Writer can be used across a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Irix and Solaris. Released under the Apache V2 license, Writer is open source software.

Features

Writer is capable of opening and saving documents in a number of formats, including the OASIS Open Document Format 1.1 (its default format), Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, RTF and XHTML.

It has ability to export to the PDF format natively similar to that in Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Word 2007.

Features include:

Templates and styles Page-layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects Built-in drawing tools Master documents—to group a collection of documents into a single document Change tracking during revisions Database integration, including a bibliography database Export to PDF, including bookmarks MailMerge Equation editor (OpenOffice Math) Scriptable and Remote Controllable via the UNO API Indexing AutoCorrect AutoComplete

Supported File formats

OpenOffice uses ISO/IEC 26300:2006 OpenDocument as its native format. Versions 2.0–2.3.0 of OpenOffice default to the ODF 1.0 file format; OpenOffice versions 2.3.1–2.4.3 default to ODF 1.1.

Up to 1.x, OpenOffice used OpenOffice.org XML. This was contributed to OASIS and OpenDocument was developed from it.

OpenOffice also claims support for the following formats:

Format Extension Reading Writing Notes OpenOffice.org XML SXW, STW, SXC, STC, SXI, STI, SXD, STD, SXM Yes Yes native up to 1.x Microsoft Word for Windows 2 DOC, DOT Yes Yes Microsoft Word 6.0/95 DOC, DOT Yes Yes Microsoft Word 97-2003 DOC, DOT Yes Yes Microsoft Word 2003 XML (WordprocessingML) XML Yes Yes Microsoft Excel 4/5/95 XLS, XLW, XLT Yes Yes Microsoft Excel 97-2003 XLS, XLW, XLT Yes Yes DocBook XML Yes Yes since 1.1 WordPerfect WPD Yes WordPerfect Suite 2000/Office 1.0 WPS Yes StarOffice StarWriter 3/4/5 SDW, SGL, VOR Yes Yes Ichitaro 8/9/10/11 JTD, JTT Yes ApportisDoc (Palm) PDB Yes Yes Requires Java Hangul WP 97 HWP Yes Microsoft Pocket Word PSW Yes Yes Requires Java Microsoft Pocket Excel PXL Yes Yes Requires Java Microsoft RTF RTF Yes Yes "you are likely to experience loss of formatting and images" Plain text TXT Yes Yes various encodings supported Portable Document Format PDF Yes Yes Export from 1.1; PDF/A-1a (ISO 19005-1) export from 2.4; some readable in Impress Comma-separated values CSV, TXT Yes Yes Microsoft Excel 2003 XML XML Yes Yes Lotus 1-2-3 WK1, WKS, 123 Yes Data Interchange Format DIF Yes Yes StarOffice StarCalc 3/4/5 SDC, VOR Yes Yes dBase DBF Yes Yes SYLK SLK Yes Yes HTML HTML, HTM Yes Yes Quattro Pro 6.0 WB2 Yes Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 PPT, PPS, POT Yes Yes StarOffice StarDraw/StarImpress SDA, SDD, SDP, VOR Yes Yes Computer Graphics Metafile CGM Yes Binary-encoded only; not those using clear-text or character based encoding StarOffice StarMath SXM Yes Yes MathML MML Yes BMP file format BMP Yes Yes JPEG JPG, JPEG Yes Yes PCX PCX Yes PhotoShop PSD Yes SGV SGV Yes Windows Metafile WMF Yes Yes AutoCAD DXF DXF Yes MET MET Yes Yes Netpbm format PGM, PBM, PPM Yes Yes SunOS Raster RAS Yes Yes SVM SVM Yes Yes X BitMap XBM Yes Enhanced Metafile EMF Yes Yes HPGL plotting file PLT Yes SDA SDA Yes Truevision TGA (Targa) TGA Yes X PixMap XPM Yes Yes Encapsulated PostScript EPS Yes Yes PCD PCD Yes Portable Network Graphic PNG Yes Yes SDD SDD Yes Tagged Image File Format TIF, TIFF Yes Yes Graphics Interchange Format GIF Yes Yes PCT PCT Yes Yes SGF SGF Yes Adobe Flash SWF Yes Export from Impress Scalable Vector Graphics SVG Yes Export from Draw Software602 (T602) 602, TXT Yes Unified Office Format UOF, UOT, UOS, UOP Yes Yes since 3.0

Limitations

Grammar checking requires the installation of an extension. Document templates are also available as extensions for OpenOffice Writer. Writer lacks a "normal" or "draft view" found in most other word processors, where paper margins and some aspects of the layout are hidden in order to let the user focus on text editing rather than layout. This is one of the most voted for feature requests on the OpenOffice web site. Cannot have a single document viewable in a split window view (either horizontally or vertically split), whereby you can view two different locations in the document at once (for comparison, editing, copy or cut and paste operations, etc.). Writer can't rotate images, although this feature is planned for inclusion in v4.0 Cannot open multiple documents in one task window (either horizontally or vertically split, or tiled with one another) and keep each document visible at the same time (for comparison, editing, copy or cut and paste operations, et al.) rather than having only a single document viewable at a time.

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