14 DAY TRIAL // In their endless quest to ensure full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7, the team at NeoOffice has announced new patches for versions 3.2 and 3.1.2 of the productivity suite.
Tested against several Lion developer builds, NeoOffice has generally behaved well, but those who maintain the software still found some inconsistencies, such as the most recent bug in the native Open and Save dialogs.
“After we released NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 1 two weeks ago, Apple released a new developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion,” the NeoOffice team explains in a forum post.
“We did some testing of NeoOffice on this latest Lion developer preview release and found a bug in the native Open and Save dialogs,” reads the post signed Patrick, Fran, Ed, and Tim (The NeoOffice Team).
According to the team, “The bug that we found causes the file list in both dialogs to flicker and makes it difficult to read the file list.”
As such, they rolled out NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 2, in order to ensure that the office suite “works smoothly on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion whenever it is released by Apple.”
The development team confirms that NeoOffice 3.1.2 is also patched via the ninth such release for this development cycle.
“This bug also occurs in NeoOffice 3.1.2 so we have released NeoOffice 3.1.2 Patch 9 with the same fix,” they confirm.
A full-featured office suite, NeoOffice is basically OpenOffice without X11 dependencies. It is intended to work as a native OS X app, though it’s still rather sluggish on lower-specced machines.
NeoOffice has a word processor, includes Excel macro support, and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
It also has presentation, and drawing programs, and is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License (GPL).