Open Office recently pushed 3.0 as a beta release.
It's a bit slower the 2.4, it's got a nice new start centre, an icon refresh, a zoom control on the status bar and is now capable of supporting extensions to increase functionality.
To be honest I can't say there are a great many useful downloads available at the moment, but some of them would be pretty handy if you use Open Office on a regular basis:
Professional Template Pack
A collection of elements to create your own professional style templates for documents, forms and presentations
Sun Web Blog Publisher
Microsoft Word 2007 comes with some impressive blogging capabilities, but now Writer can too. This extension supports “many popular blog services'â€, so having not used it I can't guarantee it'll work for yours, but give it a try and see.
GoogleDocs to Open Office.
This works for both Google Docs and Zoho and can import and export your documents and presentations between Open Office and thestwo online services.
Oxygen Office Gallery Extras
A compilation of clip art and templates for your documents. Comes with multiple languages and with some other extras. Pagination
A simple little dialogue to insert page numbers, works with all localizations.
Crop Images
Crop images in Draw and Impress with this add-on.
Writer's Tools
If you live in Writer during the day, churning out documents or whatever it is you do then this pack will provide you with all the extra functions and features necessary. There are some pretty useless additions to this set, but some notable tools are:
This seems pretty handy, it searches for all the fonts contained in the document on your system. It then reports on missing fonts, all used fonts and gives statistics on available fonts.
Open Office Extensions
It's a bit slower the 2.4, it's got a nice new start centre, an icon refresh, a zoom control on the status bar and is now capable of supporting extensions to increase functionality.
To be honest I can't say there are a great many useful downloads available at the moment, but some of them would be pretty handy if you use Open Office on a regular basis:
Professional Template Pack
A collection of elements to create your own professional style templates for documents, forms and presentations
Sun Web Blog Publisher
Microsoft Word 2007 comes with some impressive blogging capabilities, but now Writer can too. This extension supports “many popular blog services'â€, so having not used it I can't guarantee it'll work for yours, but give it a try and see.
GoogleDocs to Open Office.
This works for both Google Docs and Zoho and can import and export your documents and presentations between Open Office and thestwo online services.
Oxygen Office Gallery Extras
A compilation of clip art and templates for your documents. Comes with multiple languages and with some other extras. Pagination
A simple little dialogue to insert page numbers, works with all localizations.
Crop Images
Crop images in Draw and Impress with this add-on.
Writer's Tools
If you live in Writer during the day, churning out documents or whatever it is you do then this pack will provide you with all the extra functions and features necessary. There are some pretty useless additions to this set, but some notable tools are:
- Lookup Tool
- Email Backup
- Remote Backup
- Start/Stop Timer
- Add to Basket
- miniInvoices
This seems pretty handy, it searches for all the fonts contained in the document on your system. It then reports on missing fonts, all used fonts and gives statistics on available fonts.
Open Office Extensions
