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StarOffice™ 6.0 Office Suite —A Sun™ ONE Software Offering

A full-featured, alternative office suite.

Key feature highlights A Complete Solution Supports XML-based file formats for com- The StarOffice™ 6.0 office suite—a Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) software offering— patibility and flexibility provides a feature-rich, full- office productivity suite at an excellent value while offering a full range of world-class service and support. It delivers exceptional cross-platform compatibility Compatible with StarOffice 5.x files with enhanced support for the Solaris™Operating Environment, , and Windows, Delivers improved inter- and is designed to suit all your business needs. operability

Provides new online help With StarOffice You Don’t Pay More, You Just Get More. Why pay more for an office productivity suite when StarOffice 6.0 software delivers the function- Supports native environments ality you need? With the StarOffice suite, you get tools for word processing, developing spread- Provides creativity and productivity tools sheets, making presentations, creating graphics, editing photos, publishing to the Web, and using

Offers extensive clip art and templates from relational . All StarOffice applications are integrated—they share the same menu commands, toolbars, and function keys, so you can get your work done faster. With Delivers easy integration with address StarOffice software’s automatic IntuitiveUse , the precise tools you need for the task books (StarOffice, Microsoft Outlook, LDAP, at hand are just a mouse click away. ,™ ,™ and other file formats)

Compatibility Cost Savings Supported Languages Open, modify, and save Microsoft Office files StarOffice 6.0 gives you a feature-rich, full- StarOffice 6.0 Software: easily. StarOffice 6.0 software runs on the function office productivity suite for hundreds – English Solaris Operating Environment, Linux, and of dollars less than other popular office suites. – German . –French Sun Services – Italian Productivity backs StarOffice software – Spanish This complete, full-featured office productivity with a wide array of service options ranging – Swedish suite has everything you need to create elegant from online support at sun.com/star/support word documents, sophisticated drawings, pro- to on-site service. StarSuite 6.0 software1: fessional presentations, dynamic , StarOffice 6.0 software is now available in 10 – Simplified Chinese HTML Web publishing, photo editing, and more. languages, including four key Asian languages. – Traditional Chinese It’s designed to simplify the user experience and – Japanese Simplicity improve ease of file exchange. techno- – Korean StarOffice 6.0 applications are easy and famil- logy brings the richness of features to the Asian

1StarSuite software is the official name for the Chinese, iar. Even complex jobs are simplified by moving markets with Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language versions of StarOffice software effortlessly from one application to another. Japanese, and Korean language support. Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite P 2

Seamless integration with the Microsoft Windows and down menu from the toolbar that allows users operating systems offers exceptional cross-platform to choose to paste the copied or cut text or ob- ject in its original format or in a special format. compatibility with enhanced support. Undo/Redo has been improved to provide users with a pull-down menu that lets them choose which options to undo/redo. Smart URL attri- butes enable users to streamline the process of changing a hyperlink in a document by auto- matically adapting when settings are changed. There is also a wealth of new func- tions that make financial and mathematical Free StarOffice Training soft Office fonts. Opening Microsoft Office files functions, such as determining the yield of a A free Web-based course helps new StarOffice in StarOffice brings over the same looking fonts treasury bill, even easier to perform in Star- software users get up to speed quickly. The Star- and better retains the original formatting. For Office and facilitate the exchange with Micro- Office Overview Course outlines the basic steps those users who want to save all their files in soft Excel users. of using and understanding StarOffice software. Microsoft Office format, or even Ami Pro, HTML, Seamless integration with the Microsoft This course is available through the Sun Web previous versions of StarOffice, or other file Windows and UNIX® operating systems offers Learning Center at sun.com/star/support. formats, the new file format saving preferences exceptional cross-platform compatibility with allow them to set the default standard file enhanced support for Solaris, Linux, and Mi- Share Documents With Others format. Whatever you want to save your text, crosoft Windows software users. Some of the Because the StarOffice suite is designed with spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing docu- highlights include quick launch for Microsoft cross-platform capabilities, it gives you freedom ments and formulas in, you can. Windows users, improved font rendering and of choice. Running on more platforms than any printing solutions for UNIX systems, and im- other office suite—the Solaris Operating Environ- StarOffice Native Environment: Easy Access to proved integration for print to PDF support. ment, Linux, and Microsoft Windows—StarOffice Program and System Resources software helps you share documents with other The StarOffice native environment is the center Design a Unique Personal Environment applications, including Microsoft Office XP. of everything you do in the StarOffice suite. In It’s easy to create the ideal work environment. Utilization of the nonproprietary, open, publicly the StarOffice 6.0 release, the integrated desk- Choose your own images, customize the Gallery, available eXtensible Markup Language (XML) top was removed to support the native desktop and create and preview documents using the as the default file format provides anyone, any- environment, such as GNOME, CDE, and Micro- new embedded creativity and productivity tools. where, with the ability to build or use widely soft Windows, while still providing overall sys- All StarOffice modules share the same basic available tools to open, edit, and save StarOffice tem integration without forcing users to use menu commands, toolbars, and function keys; files. The new XML file formats are compressed, the StarOffice desktop. and StarOffice software’s IntuitiveUse techno- resulting in dramatically reduced file sizes. There is a new online help system with logy automatically provides users with the tools Improved interoperability makes it even a new user interface and improved content, they need for the task at hand. To make things easier to exchange files with Microsoft Office including how-to information, to make it easy even easier, charting, clip art gallery, and gra- users. With this latest version, StarOffice soft- for people new to the StarOffice productivity phics tools are now accessible from pull-down ware has improved upon the best Microsoft suite to get the task at hand done quickly. Im- menus and toolbars from within each Star- Office import and export filters available today. proved user interface and usability—to enhance Office module. Extensive new clip art and tem- The StarOffice 6.0 release now supports edit- readability and make the application more intui- plates make it even easier to add fun and color able Microsoft Office OLE objects, auto shapes, tive to use—can be found with the new re- to your documents or to start a new document frames, , and form controls, and boasts designed dialog boxes, tab , and menus. from scratch. The revamped StarOffice Gallery improved PowerPoint filters. Some commonly used features have been contains a wide variety of professionally de- More importantly, the StarOffice 6.0 re- improved to make tasks even easier, including signed, useful clip art, shapes, and animations, lease includes new TrueType fonts, metrically the Paste Special, Undo/Redo, and Smart URL organized by themes to help you find the images equivalent to the most commonly used Micro- functions. Paste Special now includes a drop- you want—quickly and easily. Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite P 3

Other StarOffice Gallery features include or earlier, and insert them in your StarOffice Finally, the Microsoft Office 97/2000 the ability to create and organize your own 6.0 documents as OLE objects. import and export filters have been greatly themes, preview sounds and images, and im- You can also integrate new data sources enhanced to facilitate the import and export port images of your own for future use. The new quickly and easily. StarOffice 6.0 software intro- of charts from to StarOffice Templates dialog box helps you streamline duces a new dialog box for administering office- Calc 6.0 and vice versa, including the content your work; you can browse, preview, organize, wide access to data sources. Using this dialog of charts, the format of 2D and 3D charts, and and even edit your templates before opening box, you can build connections to existing data the settings for x, y, and z axes and gridlines. them. There’s also new support for open stan- sources, specify StarOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel, StarOffice Calc 6.0 includes a wealth of new dards and programming interfaces such as and other supported spreadsheet documents as and enhanced functions that have been intro- HTML, ODBC, ™ technology, and XML. Star- data sources, design and edit tables, duced to increase productivity and facilitate Office 6.0 software delivers quality and perfor- define new queries or edit existing ones, and the exchange with Microsoft Excel users. mance in an affordable and reliable alternative create links to remote data sources, including to today’s costly, proprietary office producti- forms and text documents. When specifying a StarOffice Impress: Make Your Point With vity offerings. data source, the program automatically enters High-Impact Presentations the corresponding protocol scheme in the Data Ready-to-use templates and graphics help you New and Improved Feature Highlights Source URL text box (for example, sdbc::), quickly achieve professional-looking presenta- The StarOffice 6.0 release integrates with e-mail facilitating the task of establishing a connec- tions. One click changes your presentation to a clients, such as Netscape Messenger and address tion to a desired data source. The connected Web-enabled HTML format for publishing. book, to send documents as e-mails directly data sources appear in the list box on the left Add visual punch and pizazz to documents from StarOffice modules. It provides: of the Data Source Administration dialog box. and presentations with a great selection of ex- • Better integration with your system e-mail The new Data Source Administration dialog box pressive graphics and graphic capabilities. Pro- client, address book, and data sources makes it a snap to manage your data sources. fessionally designed templates help you quickly • Improved security to protect your sensitive create great-looking documents. From information award certificates to lesson plans, financial statements to complex In the StarOffice 6.0 release, users will find marketing plans, StarOffice helps new levels of encryption to password-protect translate your ideas into reality. their text documents and spreadsheets. Star- Office software’s new XML file formats offers Take Your Show On the Road 128-bit encryption to ensure that sensitive infor- The new AutoLayout designs found mation is highly secure. only in the StarOffice Impress mod- ule create slides for Asian audiences. StarOffice Calc: A Powerful Spreadsheet StarOffice Impress 6.0 includes four Program You Can Count On new AutoLayouts that support vertical Track, analyze, and summarize complex finan- In addition, StarOffice 6.0 comes with a text to complement the new StarOffice 6.0 cial and numeric data with ease. Bring static newly designed dialog box for assigning num- Asian language features. The enhanced EPS facts and figures instantly to life using dynamic ber formats to support the international for- export feature allows you to export text as glyph 3D charts and diagrams. Create realistic “what mats for date, time, and currencies. With more outlines. This enables you to export text that if” scenarios, so you can access, view, and share functions than a standard spreadsheet program, contains Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or other information for making better decisions—fast. StarOffice Calc enables you to create lists and double-byte characters to EPS. The StarOffice StarOffice 6.0 software provides integrated handle Euro conversions with ease and accu- 6.0 release comes with a new set of TrueType charting functionality across all StarOffice mod- racy. StarOffice 6.0 software introduces new fonts, including fonts and font effects, that ules. As a result, it is no longer necessary to save date and time formats to support the Gregorian, support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean charac- StarOffice charts as individual files. However, Japanese, Gengou, and Korean ROC calendars. ter sets. you can still load standalone charts that were In addition, it also comes with a detailed list StarOffice 6.0 software supports the Uni- created with the StarOffice 5.2 module of locales and their currencies. code character standard, which represents the Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite P 4

principal written languages of the world using Importing and Exporting to Other Formats capabilities and comes with a variety of tem- a single character set. You can access the com- Of the 136 formats in the Formats list in the plates ready for you to use. plete Unicode character set by selecting Special Star-Office File > Open window, a great many • You can leverage StarOffice Impress software’s Character from the Insert menu. This Unicode of them are for graphics. Whether you just tab feature to create multiple drawings in support enables you to insert any combination want to open a scanned GIF file, a Photoshop one document. If you have several versions of letters and diacritical marks into your docu- graphic, or an AutoCAD drawing, StarOffice of the same drawing, or components that ments, as well as use special characters from Draw can open them all, and more. And when work together, there’s no need to make sep- nonwestern languages. you want to save your StarOffice Draw files for arate files. Just click on the slide bar and easy transfer to another program, you’ve got a new blank slide to draw on. you’ve got 17 choices—PNG, meta- • Squares and circles, ovals, rounded rectan- files, SVG, and of course popular gles, and everything in between are easy to options like GIF and JPG. draw—just click on the shape you want in Within a drawing, there can be the toolbar. many different types of graphics: • Whether it’s straight lines, arrows, or pre- standard polygons; meta-files and cisely drawn and edited Bezier curves, Star- bitmaps; lines, curves, and contours; Office Draw has your tool and the setup text; and two types of 3D objects. With features to let you get exactly what you want. very few exceptions, you can convert Use or customize existing arrowheads, or one to the other just by right-clicking create your own shape; the arrowhead can and choosing what to convert to. If be your company’s logo or the classic trian- StarOffice Draw: Illustrate With Your you want to use an effect on a polygon that gle, it’s up to you. Bezier curve tools give Application Tools only works on raster (pixel graphics like scanned you an exceptional amount of control, both Add diagrams and graphics to StarOffice docu- photos), just convert it to a metafile or bitmap before and after you’ve drawn the line or ments with a wide variety of drawing tools (two types of rasters). Need the object as a curved shape. Add points afterward and and templates. A single click lets you add, polygon again? Just convert it right back. In adjust the curve, sharpness, or location to create, and edit photorealistic 3D images, as the world of StarOffice Draw, objects can be get exactly the effect you want. well as control the appearance of shading and just about anything you want them to be. • StarOffice Draw has the tools and precision other effects. to enable you to create engineering-class StarOffice Draw is a bonus application, Basic Graphics Creation and Development drawings. Two types of line tools are included since office suites don’t typically include one. StarOffice Draw includes many sophisticated that you don’t get with just any drawing But if you’re going to create documents with features, but still makes it easy to quickly create program: connectors and dimension lines. impact, and diagrams that effectively illustrate Connectors are similar to what you the topic, you can’t go without one. StarOffice might have seen in Visio; a smart Draw is a full-featured graphics package, and connector at the end of each line lets has capabilities for vector graphics as well as you easily attach it to objects in the raster graphics. drawing, and the line can curve and The main types of graphics features in bend around each object involved. StarOffice Draw include: Dimension lines are for use in scale • Importing and exporting to other formats drawings like house plans. Draw a line • Basic graphics creation and development with the dimension line tool and text •Text in the middle automatically displays • Color the line’s measurement. Position it • 3D objects against what you want to indicate • Extra object effects a file and get started. Just create a new drawing the size of, like the height of a wall or the • Positioning and sizing objects from scratch, or from a template—StarOffice width of a door, to show the dimensions of Draw has all of the usual StarOffice template the object. Team up the dimension lines Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite P 5

with the scale feature, which lets you choose StarOffice Base: Now Important Data Is Always are created, assembled, and deployed, the Sun scales like 1:2 or 1:16, and you can display at Your Fingertips ONE platform can enhance productivity, speed the exact measurements of the finished Drag and drop your database records into any time to market, and increase business oppor- object you’re illustrating. StarOffice document for easier decision making. tunities for enterprises worldwide. Sort, search for, and filter tables, queries, forms, For more information on Sun ONE, please StarOffice Writer: The Simple Way to Create or reports. Powerful AutoPilots and AutoFilter visit sun.com/sunone. Professional Documents functions quickly guide you through complex Quickly compose letters, memos, brochures, tasks, so that even mass e-mails, faxes, and For More Information and more with easy-to-use templates. Create mailings are kept updated and simple. To learn more about the StarOffice productivity and post rich Web pages without learning suite, please visit our Web site at HTML. Convert Microsoft Office documents sun.com/staroffice. with just a few clicks. Perform calculations in StarOffice Writer tables, and create charts to illustrate the data. Apply style changes globally. Automatic spelling/corrections and formatting checks ensure your work is letter perfect. With StarOffice Writer you can set the gra- phic attributes (such as graphics mode, RGB, contrast, and so on) of selected graphics from within text, spreadsheet, drawing, and presen- tation documents. Add password protection to StarOffice Base provides the power and the Record feature when two or more people flexibility to manage your data sources with collaborate on one document. Assign different ease. You can connect, administer, and access passwords to individual sections instead of just a wide range of data sources (including dBase one like in previous versions. and SQL) directly from StarOffice. The new Database Import AutoPilot lets you import all your previous databases created in versions of StarOffice 5.2 or earlier and stores your existing queries, forms, and reports in the DataAccess.xml configuration file. Now, form documents can be stored as regular documents.

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StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite System Requirements

Solaris Operating Environment Linux Standards SPARC® Platform Edition OS Linux Kernel version 2.2.13 Java and JavaScript™ OS Solaris 8 or 7 Operating or higher OLE, DDE glibc2 version 2.1.2 or higher Environment; ODBC, SQL, Active Data Objects (ADO) Solaris 8 OE is recommended CPU Pentium-compatible PC POP3, IMAP4, VIM, NNTP, SMTP Memory 128 MB Memory 64 MB XML and iCAL import/export calendar support Disk Space 250 MB Disk Space 250 MB HTML and RTF Display X with 800x600 or higher Display X Server with 800x600 or higher LDAP, HTTP, FTP resolution with 256 colors resolution with 256 colors Year 2000 compliant Intel Platform Edition Microsoft Windows OS Solaris 8 or 7 Operating OS Microsoft , 98, Me, Filters Environment NT, 2000, XP 5.0, 6.0, 95, 97, 2000, Me, NT, XP CPU Pentium-compatible PC CPU Pentium-compatible PC Excel 4.0, 5.0, 95, 97, 2000 Memory 64 MB Memory 64 MB PowerPoint 97, 2000 Disk Space 250 MB Disk Space 250 MB WordPerfect 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1 Display X Server with 800x600 or higher Display 800x600 or higher resolution WordPerfect for Windows2 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 resolution with 256 colors Ami Pro2 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 3.1

2 Not supported for Solaris and Linux environments on the Intel Architecture Platform.

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