NeoOffice
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| Developer(s) | Planamesa Software |
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| Stable release | 2015.11(December 12, 2016) |
| Repository | [cvs://anoncvs:anoncvs@anoncvs.neooffice.org/cvs anoncvs |
| Operating system | OS X 10.8+ |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www |
NeoOffice is an office suite for the macOS operating system developed by Planasema Inc. It is a commercial fork of the free/open source OpenOffice.org that implements most of the features of OpenOffice.org, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and graphics program, and adds some features not present in the macOS versions of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.
Versions of OpenOffice.org for Mac prior to 3.0 did not have a native OS X interface; they required either X11.app or XDarwin to be installed.
NeoOffice was the first OpenOffice.org fork to offer a native OS X experience, with easier installation, better integration into the OS X interface (pull-down menus at the top of the screen and familiar keyboard shortcuts, for example), use of OS X's fonts and printing services without additional configuration, and integration with the OS X clipboard and drag-and-drop functions. Subsequently, both LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice followed NeoOffice's lead and implemented similarly native OS X versions.
NeoOffice began as a project to investigate methods of creating a native port of OpenOffice.org to OS X. The project now called NeoOffice was originally dubbed "NeoOffice/J", reflecting its use of OS X's Java integration to enable a native application. A related project was NeoOffice/C, which was a simultaneous effort to develop a version using Apple's Cocoa APIs. But NeoOffice/C proved very difficult to implement and the application was highly unstable, so the project was set aside in favor of the more promising NeoOffice/J. The "/J" suffix was dropped with version 1.2, since there was no longer another variety of NeoOffice from which to distinguish it. Many of these releases were preceded by a version that only Early Access Members could download; these versions were released about a month before the official release date.
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