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Re: [News] OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format Are Getting into Better Shape

__/ [ John Bailo ] on Wednesday 25 April 2007 23:12 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> A new Spring season for OpenOffice.org
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | I found out that OpenOffice.org and Sun in general are in a much better
>> | shape than they were just 8 months ago. First, Sun is doing better
>> | financially and they have managed to go back to a volume of sales
>> | unprecedented since 2001. That's good news, because it means that
>> | the financial pressure has finally faded away. But Sun's new
>> | software strategy, which is to open source its whole software
>> | stack is apparently paying off and that means that OpenOffice.org
>> | (and ODF, to be sure) has become a central part of Sun's strategy.
> 
> There are some great features in OO2 -- example: bulk conversion to PDF.
>    You can select multiple files in a directory and say convert to PDF
> and voila -- it does it.

I quite liked export as Flash (for presentations).

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