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<h2>What's New In OpenOffice.org 1.0?</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"><font face="Thorndale, serif">Document
last updated 2002-05-21.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"><font face="Thorndale, serif">Maintained
by Nick Richards &ndash; <a href="mailto:nick@nedrichards.com">nick@nedrichards.com</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"><font face="Thorndale, serif">Additional
contributions &ndash; Richard Holt.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto">&nbsp;</p>
<div id="Index"><a name="Index|region"></a>
<ol>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align=left><a href="#Last Build|region">What's
new since the last build?</a></p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align=left><a href="#Since OS|region">What's
New since OpenOffice.org went Open Source?</a></p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align=left><a href="#Since SO 5.2|region">What's
New since StarOffice 5.2?</a></p>
</ol>
</div>
<ol start=4>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" align=left></p>
</ol>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" align=left>OpenOffice.org 1.0 is a
full featured office suite that does more than you might expect. This
is a quick rundown of new features added since the StarOffice code
was made open source.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" align=left><br><br>
</p>
<h3 class="western"><b>Differences between StarOffice and
OpenOffice.org</b>
</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The source
code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of the
StarOffice code. This is because Sun Microsystems, Inc. pays to
license third party code to include in StarOffice that it does not
have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things
which are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on
OpenOffice.org include the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Certain
fonts, especially <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
language fonts, are not included,</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The
database component (Adabas D) is not included. The OpenOffice.org
community is working on a way to use any database you want in the
<a href="/project/dba/">Database Access Component</a>,</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Some
templates and an extensive Clip Art Gallery,</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The
<span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
versions of OpenOffice.org lack some of the same sorting
functionality,</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Certain
file filters such as WordPerfect. There is a community project
underway at the moment to write Open Source filters for including in
OpenOffice.org: http://www.ooodocs.org/article.php?sid=21
.<br><br>
</p>
</ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">For more information on the current
features of OpenOffice.org, please see the features page at
<a href="//dev_docs/source/features.html">//dev_docs/source/features.html</a>
.</p>
<div id="Last Build">
<h2 class="western">Changes since the Last OpenOffice.org build:</h2>
<h3 class="western">All Applications</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">As described in
<a href="http://framework.openoffice.org/proposals/macro_security/security_enhancements.html">http://framework.openoffice.org/proposals/macro_security/security_enhancements.html</a>
the security settings have been enhanced.
</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">To clarify, the security
related setting checkbox for warning on executing macros was
removed from the event configuration tab; it is now part of the tab
for security settings.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Butterfly-icons (used for
StarOffice) are now changed almost everywhere to OpenOffice.org's
own gull-icons.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The tab for setting key
bindings (pressing a combination of keys to perform an action,
e.g., Ctrl+S=Save) now has two radio buttons to switch between
common bindings for all OpenOffice.org components and (if defined)
component specific key bindings.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">There is a new syntax for
selecting a different printer on the command line: <br> -pt
&lt;printer name&gt; &lt;file 1&gt; &lt;file 2&gt; ... &lt;file n&gt;
<br>where <br> -pt is the print-to command, &lt;printer name&gt; is
the name of a printer, and &lt;file 1..n&gt; is a list of files
separated with blanks. If filenames contain blanks, they have to be
enclosed in double quotation marks (i.e., &quot;my document&quot;).
</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The Basic password
functionality now has been reimplemented for the new basic library
container concept. Apart from some minor changes, it should look
the same as in StarOffice 5.2.
</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Basic libraries, both in
applications and documents can again be password protected. If the
password is not known, they cannot be edited but nevertheless can
be used. Unlike the old implementation they're not all scrambled
with a single key but with a key derived from the password. So
there's no chance to read the source if the user forgets the
password.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">If a StarOffice 5.x document
contains password protected Basic libraries the password is
imported and the library will be scrambled with this password when
the document is saved in OpenOffice.org format (it's the same as
if the user had assigned this password by hand).
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">If an OpenOffice.org document
contains password protected Basic libraries and the password was
not typed in correctly by the user then the source cannot be
exported. The 5.x document then will only contain empty Basic
modules with a simple hint text describing the problem. If the
password is entered correctly, the library will be exported
correctly to the 5.x document. But the user must be aware that
neither the password protected library nor the password are really
secure; as it is possible to read the data by debugging
OpenOffice.org.
</p>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Under Linux the margins in
spadmin Properties-&gt;Other Settings are now absolute values in
mm.rather than inches.
</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">Database Access</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">The standard setting for &quot;Open
in design mode&quot; in forms has changed from &quot;On&quot; to
&quot;Off&quot;.
</p>
<h3 class="western">OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The pack feature has been
removed from the Impress application.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The Outliner only uses the font
valid on the first position in the paragraph, not the font from
stylesheet / para attributes. For a bullet only the height is used,
while for numbering, all attributes except Underline, Strikeout,
Emphasismark, and Relief are used. This means, for instance, that
the bullet height changes after typing the first character in the
paragraph or after selecting another size.
</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">OpenOffice.org Writer</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Groups of drawing objects can
be named in writer. If one grouped object is selected the menu
entry &quot;Name object&quot; in the context menu and in the format
menu below the entry &quot;Position and size&quot; is available.
Additionally, all named drawing objects appear in the navigator.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">AltLinux has donated code to
support the hyphenator for OpenOffice.org. Hyphenation dictionaries
are now available and integrated into OOo 1.0 for English, Danish,
German, and Russian with more coming for later releases.
</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">OpenOffice.org Calc</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">It is now possible to name an
OLE object (such as a chart). The context menu (usually availalbe
by clicking with the right mouse button) for objects has an
additional entry &quot;Name Object&quot;.</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">If an object has a UI name,
that name is shown in the Navigator instead of the internal name
(&quot;Object x&quot;). The UI name is also kept when cutting &amp;
pasting an object. Therefore, the name is not unique, there can be
several objects with the same name in a document.
</p>
</ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"><br><br>
</p>
<h3 class="western">Installation</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">To enable or disable the migration
during a response file installation it is possible to use a new key
within the environment section:
</p>
<ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">[ENVIRONMENT]<br>MIGRATION = YES |
NO</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">The default is NO. If the key is
set to YES the migration is only executed in case an old version is
found.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">When trying a network
installation (setup -net) under UNIX without having root
permissions, a message box will appear warning the user that some
steps of the installation may fail, and the option to cancel the
installation process is offered.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Under Solaris the system wide
CDE integration is now for the language of the office installation
<b>and</b> for the C locale.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Under Solaris you can retrieve
system wide CDE panel integration (for the office language only!),
if the following preconditions are met:
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">- network installation (setup
-net)<br>- the CDE integration module must be selected (which is
default on Solaris)<br>- root permissions</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">For a standalone installation, the
user $HOME integration will take place. The same will happen as a
fallback if the installer doesn't have root permissions, or when a
user starts the workstation setup in a locale of a language
different from the office installation.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">After the network installation has
finished successfully, all users logging on the same machine with a
locale corresponding to the language of the office installation
will find the StarOffice/StarSuite panel submenu already present.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">Upon clicking a starter icon a
dialog appears asking to complete or repair the workstation
installation.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">The reason why the integration is
done only for the language the office installation is in, is that
this way one can install multiple office suite installations on one
machine and the user will allways find starter icons for the office
in his/her login language.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Double-clicking on an MS Office
document or template should open OpenOffice.org loaded with this
document or the template, respectively. Furthermore, OpenOffice.org
is registered as the default HTML Editor. Under Windows, this
behaviour can be switched off.
</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western"><span style="text-decoration: none">General User
Interface</span>
</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">To make things simpler, the
filters &quot;WordPerfect (Win) 6.0&quot;, &quot;WordPerfect (Win)
6.1&quot; and &quot;WordPerfect (Win) 7.0&quot; have been grouped
together, now forming a single entry in the 'File Open' dialog,
&quot;WordPerfect (Win) 6.0 - 7.0&quot;.
</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">After changing all Japanese
resource strings from half width to full width, the new release
will be almost always capable of showing these relatively long
strings in all dialogs without clipping. - Exceptions (that are not
yet changed) are:<br>- Writer/Insert table - Button AutoFormat<br>-
Writer/Insert indexes/Page Entries - Buttons EntryText and
Hyperlink<br>- Writer/Insert Frame/Wrap - One ImageRadioButton is
slightly clipped.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Filter groups, a list of all
filters for writer, calc, writer/web, etcetera, are now sorted
according to the global categories (&quot;text documents&quot;,
&quot;spreadsheets&quot;, etc.) at the top of the filter list,
again to try and make things simpler and more consistent.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Smart detection of changes in
the template structure:
</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">OpenOffice.org allows you to
specify a list of folders where document templates are located
(Tools/Options). However, to speed things up the information is
not updated unless you use the supplied
&quot;File/Templates/Organize/Commands/Update&rdquo; mechanism. If
this is not updated then all of the dialogs that present template
information are out-of-date.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">In this release, a mechanism
has been added to check if the template folders and the
configuration entries are in sync. This mechanism is used in the
&quot;Organize templates dialog&quot; as well as in the old &quot;New
from template&quot; dialog (which, for instance, is still used in
Draw/Impress when loading a slide design). It allows to
automatically perform the (expensive) update when necessary. Thus,
when using the dialogs mentioned, they are now always up-to-date
when opened - even if the user modified the templates structure
without using OOo at all.
</p>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">When selecting a path in &quot;Tools
- Options &ndash; OpenOffice.org - Security&quot;, a dialogue is
now available to select archive files (*.jar, *.zip) instead of
folders. It is possible to add folders manually by editing the edit
field.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"><a href="#Index|region">Back to
index.</a></p>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="Since OS">
<h2 class="western">Changes Since OpenOffice.org went Open Source:</h2>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">Online Help, English Spellchecker
and Thesaurus now available, plus various other spellcheckers are
available!
</p>
<h3 class="western">Database Access</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Under specific conditions,
database forms now try to share their connections. Database (sub)
forms also share connections.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">For all file system based data
source types (namely <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">dBase</font></span>,
file, and Spreadsheet), the URLs displayed in the dialog are
decoded, for example, for a <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">dBase</font></span>
data source based on the files in <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">&quot;c:\some
where</font>&quot;, the correct SDBC API URL would be
&quot;<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">sdbc:<span lang="en-GB">dbase</span>:file://c|/some%20where</font>&quot;.
But now the dialog displayes &quot;<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">sdbc:<span lang="en-GB">dbase</span>:file://c|/some
where</font>&quot;.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">New auto pilot for integrating
system address books / stocks.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Data source administration
dialog: file system based SDBC urls displayed in a decoded version
now.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Changed runtime representation
of form (control) macros.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">You can now rename
tables,views, and queries.</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">All Applications</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">To benefit from the
anti-aliasing options provided by the Graphics System under UNIX
there are new options under Tools &ndash; Options -View. There's an
additional check box &quot;Screen Font Anti-aliasing&quot;, and a
field where a pixel limit for the anti-aliasing can be specified.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Ability to insert a special
character such as <font face="Times New Roman, serif">&reg;:</font>
&ldquo;Insert - Special Character&rdquo; added.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The temporary base directory
can be configured by a user. The office creates its own temporary
directories/files beneath this base directory.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The new File Save dialogs allow
saving with password only for OpenOffice.org XML file format.</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">When the next document of the
same type is created or opened, it gets the same window state as
stored in the configuration. So you can have different default
window sizes for every module in OpenOffice.org.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Transparency color controls at
the 'Fade object' TabPage of 'Interaction' dialog have been
removed. These controls are not needed anymore, because all
necessary transparency calculations are made internally now.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The SDBC driver for accessing
address data from various data sources (including address data of
an existing Mozilla installation) now uses a configuration setting
to determine which Mozilla profile should be used to log on to
Mozilla.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Now the attributes listbox of
the Find &amp; Replace dialogue (only available if the writer is
the current application) contains <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
and other new attributes. &ldquo;Edit - Find &amp; Replace&rdquo;</p>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="text-decoration: none">Help
on Basic implemented. When the Basic IDE is open and the cursor on
one word, when you press &lt;F1&gt; the help application tries to
open a page matching to this word.
</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">Some names for presentation and
interaction effects have been changed: <br>Object effects:</p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">&quot;Discard From...&quot;
becomes &quot;Fly in from...&quot;
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">&quot;Discard Short From...&quot;
becomes &quot;Peek in from...&quot;
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">&quot;Drop From...&quot;
becomes &quot;Build up from...&quot;
</p>
</ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">Page effects:</p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">&quot;Move to...&quot; becomes
&quot;Uncover to...&quot;
</p>
</ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">Interactions :</p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">&quot;Move to...&quot; becomes
&quot;Fly out to...&quot;
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">&quot;Move Short to...&quot;
becomes &quot;Peek out to...&quot;</p>
</ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">Other builds:</p>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">You can now import and export
<span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
line break settings in PowerPoint format.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The doctype used for SVG export
has been upgraded to the latest specification.</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western" style="text-decoration: none">L10N
(Localisation) project</h3>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Number of supported locales
increased to 72, including 7 <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
locales.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Euro support, including
Greece.<br> <br>For more information on specific localisation
please visit the webpage: http://l10n.openoffice.org/
</p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">OpenOffice.org Writer</h3>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Additional label formats
available.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Softhyphens and hyphenation
behaviour improved.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="font-weight: medium">All
platforms now support the &quot;Selection Clipboard&quot; concept
familiar to users on UNIX platforms (such as Linux). Select any
text (with the mouse or keyboard) and click the middle mouse
button to paste it in at the current mouse position.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The width of borders in text
frames and table cells is now displayed in the horizontal ruler.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Smooth underline now
available.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">HTML support is improved with
both Writer and Calc now supporting all HTML4 character entities
(like &euro;). Language support in HTML export is also now
available. And OpenOffice.org Writer's HTML filter now saves and
loads language information.
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Individual platform (such as
Mac, DOS, or UNIX) text filters have been removed. These have been
replaced with the generic &quot;Text (encoded)&quot; filter.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Table autoformats store <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
and complex font settings
</p>
</ul>
</ul>
<h3 class="western">OpenOffice.org Calc</h3>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">MATCH() now works the same as
in Excel.</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">The HTML import of Writer and
Calc now supports all HTML4 character entities (like &euro;).
</p>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">Table autoformats store <span lang="en-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Asian</font></span>
and complex font settings
</p>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"></p>
</ul>
<h3 class="western"><span style="text-decoration: none">General User
Interface</span>
</h3>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">There are three new Japanese
paper sizes available at: &quot;Format - Page - Page&quot;:</p>
<pre> B4 (JIS) 257 x 364 mm
B5 (JIS) 182 x 257 mm
B6 (JIS) 128 x 182 mm</pre>
</ul>
</ul>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"><b><a href="#Index|region">Back to
index.</a></b></p>
</div>
<div id="Since SO 5.2">
<h2 class="western"><b>What's new since StarOffice 5.2?</b></h2>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">The program has undergone some
significant changes since StarOffice 5.2 was released. Some of these
changes are:
</p>
<h3 class="western">Removal of integrated desktop</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"> The integrated desktop, which
allowed you to run your whole computer has been removed. It is
replaced by individual component modules such as Writer and Impress.
In Windows versions of the program you can access these quickly
using the Quick Start Menu. This was changed so we didn't force our
own desktop on users.
</p>
<h3 class="western">Componentization of word processing,
spreadsheet, and graphic application modules
</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"> The old StarOffice used the
integrated desktop and all of the included applications had to use
the same windows and icons. The new component architechture means
that each application can concentrate on doing what it does best
whilst still remaining an integral part of the complete
OpenOffice.org suite.</p>
<h3 class="western">Removal of email and calendar and the schedule
server
</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> For
copyright reasons the email and calendar features (known as
'Groupware') were removed from the code. However a project to put
them back in has been started. More information is availiable at:
<a href="http://groupware.openoffice.org/">http://groupware.openoffice.org/</a>
.</p>
<h3 class="western">Removal of the browser
</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> There
are plenty of excellent Open Source web browsers such as the Mozilla
Project. It was felt that duplicating this effort was a waste and
that we should concentrate on the Office features of the
OpenOffice.org suite.</p>
<h3 class="western">Move to XML-file formats
</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> XML is a
way of describing structured information, like the highlighting in
text documents, in an efficient and open way. The new OpenOffice.org
file formats are much smaller than those of similar suites.</p>
<h3 class="western">Improved Microsoft filters</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Most
people currently use Microsoft Office so excellent compatibility is
a must. OpenOffice.org provides filters so that even the most
complex features are usually decoded.</p>
<h3 class="western"><b><font size=4><font face="Albany, sans-serif">Asian</font></font></b>
language Support</h3>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western"> Chinese (simple and traditional),
Japanese, and Korean are just a few of the languages that have been
added; check out the localisation project for more details:
http://l10n.openoffice.org/</p>
<p lang="en-GB" class="western">These are all changes that were
decided upon by Sun Microsystems before the source code was released
to the community.
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