Entries Related to ‘Office Apps’

LibreOffice is the best open source software suite available today. Good as it is, you can make LibreOffice more useful by adding extensions, templates, and fonts.

The iText library lets you manipulate PDF files in Java. It’s fantastic for situations where you need to produce PDFs in large numbers, or from dynamic real-time information. This introduction will help you get started with iText.

With the release of a new version of LibreOffice this month, it’s a good time to look at the two major open source office suites, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, to see what advantages each offers, and which is a better bet for end users. Both products are suites of office applications, comprising word process, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, database, drawing, and math tools. Both also spring from the same code base.

Publishing ebooks today can be a DIY business. If you write for a specific audience, you can create a successful book without the help of big companies, and get your work into the hands of readers who can download ebooks from popular sites such as Amazon CreateSpace, Lulu, or Lightning Source, and it’s easier than you might think. First, write the book. Next, follow these simple steps to prepare an ebook using the free OpenOffice.org desktop publishing application.

In the first of our two-part series, Open Source Alternatives for the Office, we examined open source applications that can be used to replace some of the most popular Office 2007 products. In this article, we’ll take a look at open source alternatives to additional Microsoft products commonly used in the office—Publisher, Groove, Visio, and Project.

Microsoft Office has been one of the most popular (and profitable) business software suites for many years, but Office is no longer the only game in town when it comes to basic business applications. In this article we’ll gauge how OpenOffice 3.0, Evolution, and GnuCash stack up to Microsoft Office 2007.