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| <h2>Welcome</h2> |
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| <p><i>Last updated: 2006-02-17</i></p> |
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| <h2>OpenOffice.org 1.1 ReadMe</h2> |
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| <p>For latest updates to this readme file, see <a href="readme.html">//welcome/readme.html</a>. We archived the |
| <a href="readme-10.html">Readme file for OpenOffice.org 1.0</a>.</p> |
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| <h3>Dear User</h3> |
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| <p>This file contains important information about this program. Please read this information very carefully before starting work.</p> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org community, responsible for the development of this product, would like to invite you to participate as a community member. As a new |
| user, you can check out the <a href="../about_us/introduction.html">OpenOffice.org Introduction site</a> with helpful user information. Also read the |
| sections below of getting involved the OpenOffice.org project.</p> |
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| <h3>Notes on Installation</h3> |
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| <h4>System Requirements:</h4> |
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| <ul type="circle"> |
| <li>Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT (Service Pack 6 or higher), 2000 or XP</li> |
| <li>Pentium compatible PC</li> |
| <li>64 MB RAM</li> |
| <li>250 MB (CJK version: 300 MB) available hard disk space</li> |
| <li>800x600 resolution or higher, at least 256 colors</li> |
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| <p><b>Note:</b> Please be aware that administrator rights are needed for the installation process.</p> |
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| <p><b>Note for Windows 98 users only:</b> If you choose to install Java during the OpenOffice.org installation program, the installer will ask you to reboot |
| your system. You should either ignore this message or open the OpenOffice.org installation program again after the reboot.</p> |
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| <p>Difficulties starting OpenOffice.org (e.g. applications hang) as well as problems with the screen display are often caused by the graphics card driver. |
| If these problems occur, please update your graphics card driver or try using the graphics driver delivered with your operating system. Difficulties |
| displaying 3D objects can often be solved by deactivating the option "Use OpenGL" under 'Tools - Options - View - 3D view'.</p> |
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| <p>You can install OpenOffice.org 1.1 along side of an older version of OpenOffice.org. If you later choose to deinstall the older version of OpenOffice.org, |
| you must call the installation program of the newer version and choose 'Repair'. This ensures that the new version is correctly registered in your system. |
| <br />Please note that copy and paste via clipboard between OpenOffice.org 1.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.1 might not work in OpenOffice.org format. If that |
| happens, choose 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose a format other than OpenOffice.org, or open the document in OpenOffice.org 1.1 directly.</p> |
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| <p>Please make sure you have enough free memory in the temporary directory on your system and that read, write and run access rights have been granted. |
| Close all other programs before starting the installation.</p> |
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| <h3>Network Installation: Error When Calling the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter</h3> |
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| <p>If, when starting the system, problems should occur in calling the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter (e.g. invalid link), this is probably due to the fact |
| that the network drive on which the network installation is installed is not or not yet available.</p> |
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| <p>In most cases, this happens when the network drives are logged in via a login script, thereby establishing the connection for the network drives parallel |
| to running the programs of the autostart group from which the Quickstarter is also started.</p> |
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| <p>To avoid this problem, the network drive should be connected via the system's services. If this is not possible, the link used to call the Quickstarter |
| can be removed from the autostart group of the system, or the Quickstarter can already be disabled when installing the workstation installation. If the |
| system administrator already disabled the Quickstarter during installation of the network installation, then the Quickstarter cannot be selected by the user |
| in a later workstation installation.</p> |
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| <h3>Important Accessibility Notes</h3> |
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| <p>Due to a problem within the Java(TM) Access Bridge, you have to set the operating system locale to "English (United States)" or "(en-US)". Only this |
| setting enables you to work with programs like ZoomText. (Note: The program WindowEyes does not work with OpenOffice.org, because it does not support the |
| Java Accessibility API.)The Java(TM) Access Bridge installed with this early access version does not work properly with conventional Java applications.</p> |
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| <h3>Ai Squared ZoomText 7.11</h3> |
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| <p>If you want to use Ai Squared ZoomText with OpenOffice.org 1.1 , you need version 7.11 or higher. The date of the Ai Squared ZoomText download must be |
| after June 12, 2002 for it to contain all the necessary program enhancements.</p> |
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| <h3>Changing the User Interface Font</h3> |
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| <p>In OpenOffice.org you can change the font used for screen display and printing by replacing it with a different font installed on your system. This can |
| be done using the font replacement function. Choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Font Replacement to access this function.</p> |
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| <p>To change the font of the OpenOffice.org user interface, you have to replace the default font "Andale Sans UI" with another font and mark the "always" |
| setting for this replacement.</p> |
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| <p>Refer to the OpenOffice.org Help for a detailed explanation of the dialog.</p> |
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| <h3>Shortcut Keys</h3> |
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| <p>Only shortcut keys (key combinations) not used by the operating system can be used in OpenOffice.org. If a key combination in OpenOffice.org does not |
| work as described in the OpenOffice.org Help, check if that shortcut is already used by the operating system. To rectify such conflicts, you can change the |
| keys assigned by your operating system. Alternatively, you can change almost any key assignment in OpenOffice.org. For more information on this topic, refer |
| to the OpenOffice.org Help or the Help documentation of your operating system.</p> |
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| <h3>Problems When Sending Documents as E-mails From OpenOffice.org</h3> |
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| <p>When sending a document via 'File - Send - Document as E-mail' or 'Document as PDF Attachment' problems might occur (program crashes or hangs). This is |
| due to the Windows system file "MAPI" (Messaging Application Programming Interface) which causes problems in some file versions. Unfortunately, the problem |
| cannot be narrowed down to a certain version number. For more information please search in the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft Knowledge Base</a> |
| for the term "mapi dll".</p> |
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| <h3>Using Info-ZIP</h3> |
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| <p>OpenOffice.org uses Info-ZIP to create and unpack the OpenOffice.org installation, as well as for packing and unpacking the OpenOffice.org XML file |
| format. Info-ZIP programs (ZIP, UnZip and other utilities) are available free of charge and can be used in the source code and as an executable program. |
| They can be attained by visiting Anonymous FTP sites such as <a href="ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/">ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/</a>.</p> |
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| <h3>Used / Modified Source Code</h3> |
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| <p>Portions Copyright 1998, 1999 James Clark. Portions Copyright 1996, 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation.</p> |
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| <h3>Getting Involved</h3> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org Community would very much benefit from your active participation in the development of this important open source project.</p> |
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| <p>As a User, you are already a valuable part of the suite's development process and we would like to encourage you to take an even more active role with a |
| view to being a long-term contributor to the Community. Please join and checkout the user page at: <a href="/">OpenOffice.org</a>.</p> |
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| <h3>Registration</h3> |
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| <p>Please take a little time to complete the minimal Product Registration process when you install the software. While registration is optional, we |
| encourage you to register, since the information enables the Community to make an even better software suite and address user needs directly. Through its |
| Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution to safeguard your personal data. If you missed the registration at installation, you |
| can return and register at any time at <a href="registration-site.html ">//welcome/registration-site.html</a>.</p> |
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| <h3>User Survey</h3> |
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| <p>There is also a User Survey located online which we encourage you to fill out. The User Survey results will help OpenOffice.org move more rapidly in |
| setting new standards for the creation of the next-generation office suite. Through its Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution |
| to safeguard your personal data.</p> |
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| <h3>Report Bugs & Issues</h3> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org Web site hosts IssueZilla, our mechanism for reporting, tracking and solving bugs and issues. We encourage all users to feel entitled |
| and welcome to report issues that may arise on your particular platform. Energetic reporting of issues is one of the most important contributions that the |
| User Community can make to the ongoing development and improvement of the suite.</p> |
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| <h3>Subscribe</h3> |
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| <p>We have a few of the <a href="../mail_list.html">project mailing lists</a> to which you can subscribe to.</p> |
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| <li>News: announce@openoffice.org <b>recommended to all users</b> (light traffic)</li> |
| <li>User support: users@openoffice.apache.org <b>recommended to new users</b> (moderate traffic)</li> |
| <li>Main user forum: users@openoffice.apache.org <b>Easy way to lurk on discussions</b> (heavy traffic)</li> |
| <li>Marketing project: marketing@openoffice.apache.org <b>beyond development</b> (getting heavy traffic)</li> |
| <li>General code contributor list: dev@openoffice.apache.org (moderate/heavy traffic)</li> |
| <li>Groupware: groupware@whiteboard.openoffice.org (moderate traffic)</li> |
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| <h3>Join one or more Projects</h3> |
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| <p>You can make major contributions to this important open source project even if you have limited software design or coding experience. Yes, you!</p> |
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| <p>Our <a href="/projects/index.html">Projects page</a> lists those projects you can join. You will find projects ranging from |
| Localization, Porting and Groupware to some real core coding projects. If you are not a developer, try the QA, Documentation, or the Marketing Project. |
| The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project is applying both guerrilla and traditional commercial techniques to marketing open source software, and we are doing |
| it across language and cultural barriers, so you can help just be spreading the word and telling a friend about this office suite.</p> |
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| <h3>User Support</h3> |
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| <p>We have a <a href="/support/">support section</a> that lists both free and for-fee support. Our free support includes the users mail |
| list. Because of spam, we prefer that you subscribe to post your query. You can read over archives, which include previous queries, and subscribe from our |
| <a href="../mail_list.html">Mail List page</a>.</p> |
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| <h3>Way to Start</h3> |
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| <p>The best way to start contributing is to subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists, lurk for a while, and gradually use the mail archives to |
| familiarize yourself with many of the topics covered since the OpenOffice.org source code was released back in October 2000. When you're comfortable, all |
| you need to do is make an email self-introduction and jump right in. If you are familiar with Open Source Projects, check out our To-Dos list and see if |
| there is anything you would like to help with at <a href="../dev_docs/todos.html">//dev_docs/todos.html</a>.</p> |
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| <p>We hope you enjoy working with the new OpenOffice.org 1.1 and join us online.</p> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org Community</p> |
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