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Impress (presentations)

Impress provides all the common multimedia presentation tools, such

as special effects, animation, and drawing tools. It is integrated with

the advanced graphics capabilities of OOo’s Draw and Math

components. Slideshows can be further enhanced with Fontwork’s

special effects text, as well as sound and video clips. Impress is

compatible with Microsoft’s PowerPoint file format and can also save

your work in numerous graphics formats, including Macromedia Flash

(SWF).

Draw (vector graphics)

Draw is a vector drawing tool that can produce everything from simple

diagrams or flowcharts to 3-D artwork. Its Smart Connectors feature

allows you to define your own connection points. You can use Draw to

create drawings for use in any of OOo’s other components, and you can

create your own clipart and add it to the Gallery. Draw can import

graphics from many common formats and save them in over 20 formats

including PNG, HTML, PDF, and Flash.

Base (database)

Base provides tools for day-to-day database work within a simple

interface. It can create and edit forms, reports, queries, tables, views,

and relations, so that managing a connected database is much the

same as in other popular database applications. Base provides many

new features, such as the ability to analyze and edit relationships from

a diagram view. Base incorporates HSQLDB as its default relational

database engine. It can also use dBASE, Microsoft Access, MySQL, or

Oracle, or any ODBC- or JDBC-compliant database. Base also provides

support for a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.

Math (formula editor)

Math is OOo’s formula or equation editor. You can use it to create

complex equations that include symbols or characters not available in

standard font sets. While it is most commonly used to create formulas

in other documents, such as Writer and Impress files, Math can also

work as a stand-alone tool. You can save formulas in the standard

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) format for inclusion in

webpages and other documents not created by OOo.

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