ThinkFree Office 3 available

By Dave Caolo

Late last week, the ThinkFree Corporation released ThinkFree Office 3 for the Mac. For the uninitiated, ThinkFree Office is a suite of office applications that can be used as an alternative to Microsoft's Office, and includes a word processing application (Write), a spreadsheet application (Calc) and presentation software (Show). None of these apps use proprietary file formats, meaning they play very well with Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint. In fact, my brother in law has been using ThinkFree office in a mixed Mac/Windows work environment for ages now with no trouble.

Changes to version 3 include: Support for 11 languages – including right-to-left publishing (i.e. Chinese, Arabic), an option to save as files as PDF, bundled fonts (i.e. Arial, Times New Roman) and an enhanced user interface. You can download a trial copy here. A single license will run you $50US, and users of previous versions can upgrade for $30US. ThinkFree Office 3 requires
Mac OS X 10.3 (Java 1.4.2 Update 2 or later) or Mac OS X 10.4 (From August 2005) running on a G4 or G5. 

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