Free openoffice org writer software for mac

Start OpenOffice.org is a double-clickable Mac OS X application that allows the user to easily open documents created by "OpenOffice.org".
It also provides an easy way to just launch "OpenOffice.org".
Enhancements:
- Fix problem with the "Application.applescript" and "Utility.applescript" scripts being too long to edit with Script Editor - moved some handlers around, removed unused code etc, and created new "ChangeHistory.applescript" file.
- Add support for Mac OS X 10.3.x Fast User Switching feature - each user has a different X11 DISPLAY. Original patches provided by Randolph Brown and others; support added to handle the actual X11 DISPLAY being used at runtime.
- Add Preferences dialog field for the preferred X11 DISPLAY.
- No longer need Direct to PostScript option.
- Add support for handling files with special shell characters and Unicode characters in their filenames. Based on idea by Roger Jolly.
- Add support for checking for updates, using MacPAD.
- Add support for localized MacPAD messages.
- Conditionally support the MacPAD "barber-pole" progress bar at runtime for different versions of Mac OS X.
- Add additional User Defaults, including default "OpenOffice.org" module name.
- No longer set DYLD_LIBRARIES_PATH.
- Check if BSD tools are installed.
- Default "OpenOffice.org" version to "OpenOffice.org" v1.1.x.
- Add support for special handling of "-net" installs and "-net" workstation installs.
- Launch "OpenOffice.org" document (if any), separately, after launching "OpenOffice.org" itself, to work around weird problems when documents have special shell chars in their name.
- Major changes for handling paths and URLs.
- Tidy-up debugging.
- Fix bug with handling fonts dragged to "Start OpenOffice.org" after launch, if "soffice" has never been run (perhaps because of a X Window Server launch error).
- Change Mac OS X 10.1.x hack to be an AppleScript Studio hack for older Mac OS X (< 10.2.3).
- Increase wait time from 5-10 secs to 30 secs and improve checking for "OpenOffice.org" launch, as "OpenOffice.org" v1.1.x "pagein" process can take a long time on a slow machine before the "soffice" process is running.
- Put up "Please Wait..." floating window before time consuming operations; automatically hide the window when choosing a X Window Server or when an error Alert is up.
- Make "isProcessRunning" handler only look at processes for this user; and ignore "zombies".
- Merge French localization resources from Yves de Champlain.

Enhancements:

• Changed All Tracks/Entire Score option in Dynamic Dialog box to work as expected.
• Option and Command dragging to apply to multiple staves now works when dragging staves.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.

Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice incorporates dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

Unlike the Mac OS X release of OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice does not require the X11 windowing system.

Released as free, open-source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL), NeoOffice is fully functional and stable enough for everyday use. The software is actively developed, and updates and improvements are available on a regular basis.

Available Languages: Czech Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Norwegian Spanish Vietnamese.

Jers Novel Writer is a relatively simple word processor with extra features to support large creative writing projects.
This program is all about momentum, and reducing the number of things that break the flow when I am writing. Jers Novel Writer is designed to help me keep writing when the creative juices are flowing, and then find all the things I need to go over again when I am more in a nitty-gritty mood.
Main features:
- Margin Notes like youve never seen before.
- Automatic Outline
- Full-screen mode
- Database
- Bookmarks
- Separate formatting options for print and screen
- It actually knows what a chapter is (or whatever organizational structure you want to use).
- A panel for general notes lets you keep track of story issues and ideas (and the last time you ate).
- Word count
- More accurate page count estimates
- Better performance than most word processors for really, really big documents.
Enhancements:
- better toolbar icons (thanks Kreg!)
- replace italic with underline print option
bugs closed:
- not all print settings were applied correctly on export (still does not to page breaks).
- invisible (and unimportant) exception thrown when dragging a margin note into an empty text section
- Cannot Reproduce - Changing name of text section causes crash (reported in version 533, same user reports also cannot reproduce in 600)
- page count could hang when page break came in just the wrong place
- when database is changed in the database window, the database drawer can have invalid selections, leading to trouble with the description field.

Dict.org Widget 0.9 is known as a helpful Dashboard widget which allows you to quickly search any of the databases on Dict.org.

Enhancements:

• Initial beta release.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.