This blog series features the top-performing projects on SourceForge under specific categories. This week, we feature the top 6 Word Processor Software of the Week available on SourceForge.
Word processors have become indispensable tools practically everywhere, with applications in business, in education, and even at home. And today’s word processors can do so much more than they used to. Nowadays, word processors support many different features, including file management, graphics, spell check, thesaurus and more.
Here are the top 6 Word Processor Software available here at SourceForge, based on weekly downloads:
Apache OpenOffice – formerly known as OpenOffice.org – is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. It is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF – the international open standard format – and is able to read and write files in other formats, including the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format.
OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making it easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.
OpenOffice is a very good and free alternative for Office productivity tools, and is a highly-rated project here in SourceForge, reaching over 200 million overall downloads.
[ Download Apache OpenOffice ]
Plugin Manager is a plugin for Notepad++ that allows you to install, update and remove plugins from Notepad++. A centrally hosted XML file holds the list of plugins, that the plugin manager downloads and processes against the list of installed plugins.
[ Download Notepad++ Plugin Manager ]
This is the official catalog of Apache OpenOffice templates. You’ll find ready-to-use templates ranging from letters and résumés to calendars and brochures, which can save you time and are easy to use.
[ Download Apache OpenOffice Templates ]
A comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor, which allows side-by-side visual differencing, comparison against SVN database, highlighting of differences, and more.
[ Download Notepad++ Compare plugin ]
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Curses, Ispell compatible pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module.
JOE is a full-featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a blend of MicroPro’s venerable microcomputer word processor WordStar and Richard Stallman’s famous LISP based text editor GNU-EMACS (but it does not use code from either program): most of the basic editing keys are the same as in WordStar as is the overall feel of the editor. JOE also has some of the key bindings and many of the powerful features of EMACS.
[ Download JOE ]
See and know more of the many other Open Source Word Processor Software available on SourceForge here.