Tag: openoffice

I saw on OpenOffice.org’s announce mailing list that OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta has been released. New features include:

• Many new import/export formats like PDF, Macromedia Flash, DocBook, several PDA Office file formats, flat XML and XHTML
• Support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) and vertical writing languages, such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew
• Enhanced integration with Java, with up to 10 times better performance
• Support for Accessibility throughout the entire suite
• Support for add-on components
• Initial support for recovering damaged OOo files
• Support for a new data source type - MySQL
• Improved online help

And, that’s just from the e-mail announcement. There are some interesting gems from the complete list as well:

• The splash screen now has a progress bar.
• Additional property pages for OpenOffice.org file types in Windows Explorer.
• A new java-native-uno bridge with up to 10 times better performance.
• New FTP file access component.
• […]

OpenOffice.org is already pretty good, but I look forward to trying this new version.

As mentioned on the OpenOffice.org announce mailing list, OpenOffice.org 1.02 has been released:

OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 is available for download. It is a “micro” release and does not include new features. Rather it incorporates many bug fixes. Reports indicate that it is faster and more robust. For a full report, please read the Release notes. […]

As mentioned, this is a maintenance release, so the changes are just in the way of bug fixes. Looking over the list of bugs-fixed, it appears that the fixes are mostly for the Calc component or Max OSX-based. And, I’m curious as to whether this release (1.02) is more current than the current “Developers Release” :-/.