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| <H1 CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER>What's New In OpenOffice.org 1.0?</H1> |
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| <DIV ID="Index"><A NAME="Index|region"></A> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="#Last Build|region">What's |
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| new since the last build?</A></P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="#Since OS|region">What's |
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| New Since OpenOffice.org went Open Source?</A></P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT><A HREF="#Since SO 5.2|region">What's |
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| New Since StarOffice 5.2?</A></P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT></P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT> OpenOffice.org 1.0 is a |
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| full featured office suite that does more than you might expect. This |
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| document is a quick rundown of all the new features that have been |
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| added since the StarOffice code was made open source.</P> |
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| <PRE></PRE><H3 CLASS="western"> |
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| <B>Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org</B> |
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| </H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The |
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| source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of |
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| the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to |
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| license third party code to include in StarOffice that it does not |
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| have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things |
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| which are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on |
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| OpenOffice.org include:</P> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Certain |
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| fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts) are not |
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| included,</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The |
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| database component (Adabas D) is not included. The OpenOffice.org |
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| community is working on a way to use any database you want in the |
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| Database Access Component: http://dba.openoffice.org/</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Some |
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| templates and an extensive Clip Art Gallery.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The |
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| Asian versions of OpenOffice.org lack some of the same sorting |
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| functionality,</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Certain |
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| file filters such as WordPerfect. There is a community project |
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| underway at the moment to write Open Source filters to add to |
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| OpenOffice.org: http://www.ooodocs.org/article.php?sid=21</P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">For more information on the current |
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| features of OpenOffice.org, please see the features page.: |
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| http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/features.html</P> |
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| <DIV ID="Last Build"> |
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| <H2 CLASS="western">Changes Since The Last OpenOffice.org build:</H2> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">All Applications</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">As described in |
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| <A HREF="http://framework.openoffice.org/proposals/macro_security/security_enhancements.html">http://framework.openoffice.org/proposals/macro_security/security_enhancements.html</A> |
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| the security settings have been enhanced. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">To clarify security related |
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| setting the checkbox for warning on executing macros was removed |
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| from the event configuration tab, it is now part of the tab for |
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| security settings. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The tab for setting key |
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| bindings (pressing a combination of keys to perform an action e.g. |
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| Ctrl+S=Save) now has two radio buttons to switch between common |
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| bindings for all OpenOffice.org components and (if defined) |
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| component specific key bindings.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">There is a new syntax for |
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| selecting a different printer on the command line: |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">-pt <printer name> <file |
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| 1> <file 2> ... <file n> |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">where |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">-pt is the print-to command, |
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| <printer name> is the name of a printer, <file 1..n> is |
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| a list of files separated with blanks. If filenames contain blanks, |
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| they have to be imbedded in double quotation marks (i.e. "my |
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| document"). |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The Basic password |
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| functionality now has been reimplemented for the new basic library |
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| container concept. There should be apart from some minor it should |
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| look the same as in StarOffice 5.2. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Basic libraries both in |
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| application in documents can again be password protected. If the |
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| password is not known they cannot be edited but nevertheless they |
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| can be used. Unlike the old implementation they're not all |
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| scrambled with a single key but with a key derived from the |
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| password. So there's no chance to read the source if the user |
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| forgets the password. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">If a StarOffice 5.x document |
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| contains password protected Basic libraries the password is |
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| imported and the library will be scrambled with this password when |
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| the document is saved in OpenOffice.org format (it's the same as |
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| if the user had assigned this password by hand). |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">If an OpenOffice.org document |
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| contains password protected Basic libraries and the password was |
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| not typed in correctly by the user then the source cannot be |
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| exported. The 5.x document then will only contain empty Basic |
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| modules with a simple hint text describing the problem. If the |
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| password is entered correctly the library will be exported |
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| correctly to the 5.x document. But the user must be aware that |
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| neither the password protected library or the password are really |
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| secure, as it's possible to read the data by debugging |
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| OpenOffice.org. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Under Linux the margins in |
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| spadmin Properties->Other Settings are now absolute values in |
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| mm.Rather than</P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">Database Access</H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The standard setting for "Open |
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| in design mode" in forms has changed from "on" to |
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| "off". |
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| </P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The pack feature has been |
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| removed from the impress application. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The Outliner only uses the font |
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| valid on the first position in the paragraph, not the font from |
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| stylesheet / para attributes. For a bullet only the height is used, |
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| for numbering all attributes but Underline, Strikeout, Emphasismark |
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| and Relief are used. This means, for instance, that the bullet |
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| height changes after typing the first character in the paragraph, |
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| or after selecting another size. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org Writer</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Groups of drawing objects can |
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| be named in writer. If one grouped object is selected the menu |
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| entry "Name object" in the context menu and in the format |
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| menu below the entry "Position and size" is available. |
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| Additinally, all named drawing objects appear in the navigator. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org Calc</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">It is now possible to name an |
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| OLE object (such as a chart). The context menu (usually availalbe |
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| by clicking with the right mouse button) for objects has an |
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| additional entry "Name Object".</P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">If an object has a UI name, |
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| that name is shown in the Navigator instead of the internal name |
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| ("Object x"). The UI name is also kept when cutting & |
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| pasting an object. Therefore, the name is not unique, there can be |
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| several objects with the same name in a document. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"><BR><BR> |
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| </P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">Installation</H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">To enable or disable the migration |
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| during a response file installation it is possible to use a new key |
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| within the environment section: |
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| </P> |
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| <UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">[ENVIRONMENT]<BR>MIGRATION = YES | |
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| NO</P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The default is NO. If the key is |
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| set to YES the migration is only executed in case an old version is |
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| found.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">When trying a network |
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| installation (setup -net) under UNIX without having root |
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| permissions, a message box will appear warning the user that some |
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| steps of the installation may fail, and the option to cancel the |
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| installation process is offered. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Under Solaris the system wide |
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| CDE integration is now for the language of the office installation |
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| <B>and</B> for the C locale. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Under Solaris you can retrieve |
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| system wide CDE panel integration (for the office language only!), |
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| if the following preconditions are met: |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">- network installation (setup |
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| -net)<BR>- the CDE integration module must be selected (which is |
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| default on Solaris)<BR>- root permissions</P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">For a standalone installation the |
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| user $HOME integration will take place. The same will happen as a |
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| fallback if the installer doesn't have root permissions, or when a |
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| user starts the workstation setup in a locale of a language |
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| different from the office installation. |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">After the network installation has |
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| finished successfully, all users logging on the same machine with a |
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| locale corresponding to the language of the office installation |
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| will find the StarOffice/StarSuite panel submenu already present. |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Upon clicking a starter icon a |
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| dialog appears asking to complete or repair the workstation |
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| installation. |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The reason why the integration is |
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| done only for the language the office installation is in, is that |
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| this way one can install multiple office suite installations on one |
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| machine and the user will allways find starter icons for the office |
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| in his/her login language. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Double-clicking on an MS Office |
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| document or template should open OpenOffice.org loaded with this |
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| document or the template, respectively. Furthermore, OpenOffice.org |
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| is registered as the default HTML Editor. Under Windows, this |
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| behaviour can be switched off. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">General User |
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| Interface</SPAN> |
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| </H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">To make things simpler the |
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| filters "WordPerfect (Win) 6.0", "WordPerfect (Win) |
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| 6.1" and "WordPerfect (Win) 7.0" have been grouped |
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| together, now forming a single entry in the 'File Open' dialog, |
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| "WordPerfect (Win) 6.0 - 7.0". |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">After changing all Japanese |
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| resource strings from half width to full width, the new release |
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| will be almost always capable of showing these relatively long |
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| strings in all dialogs without clipping. - Exceptions (that are not |
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| yet changed) are:<BR>- Writer/Insert table - Button AutoFormat<BR>- |
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| Writer/Insert indexes/Page Entries - Buttons EntryText and |
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| Hyperlink<BR>- Writer/Insert Frame/Wrap - One ImageRadioButton is |
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| slightly clipped.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Filter groups, a list of all |
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| filters for writer, calc, writer/web etc., are now sorted according |
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| to the global categories ("text documents", |
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| "spreadsheets" etc.) at the top of the filter list.Again |
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| to try and make things simpler and more consistent.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Smart detection of changes in |
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| the template structure: |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org allows you to |
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| specify a list of folders where document templates are located |
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| (Tools/Options). However to speed things up the information is not |
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| updated unless you use the supplied |
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| "File/Templates/Organize/Commands/Update” mechanism. If |
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| this is not updated then all of the dialogs that present template |
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| information are out-of-date. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">In this release a mechanism |
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| has been added to check if the template folders and the |
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| configuration entries are in sync. This mechanism is used in the |
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| "organize templates dialog" as well as in the old "new |
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| from template" dialog (which, for instance, is still used in |
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| Draw/Impress when loading a slide design). It allows to |
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| automatically perform the (expensive) update when necessary. Thus, |
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| when using the dialogs mentioned, they are now always up-to-date |
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| when opened - even if the user modified the templates structure |
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| without using OOo at all. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">When selecting a path in "Tools |
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| - Options – OpenOffice.org - Security", a dialogue is |
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| now available to select archive files (*.jar, *.zip) instead of |
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| folders. It is possible to add folders manually by editing the edit |
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| field. |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"><A HREF="#Index|region">Back to |
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| index.</A></P> |
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| </UL> |
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| </DIV> |
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| <DIV ID="Since OS"> |
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| <H2 CLASS="western">Changes Since OpenOffice.org went Open Source:</H2> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Online help, English Spellchecker |
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| and Thesaurus now available! |
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| </P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">Database Access</H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Under specific conditions, database |
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| forms now try to share their connections. Database (sub) forms also |
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| share connections.</P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">For all file system based data |
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| source types (namely dbase, file and Spreadsheet), the URLs |
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| displayed in the dialog are decoded. E.g., for a dbase data source |
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| based on the files in <FONT FACE="Courier New, Courier, mono">"c:\some |
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| where</FONT>", the correct SDBC API URL would be |
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| "<FONT FACE="Courier New, Courier, mono">sdbc:dbase:file://c|/some%20where</FONT>". |
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| But now the dialog displayes "<FONT FACE="Courier New, Courier, mono">sdbc:dbase:file://c|/some |
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| where</FONT>". |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">New auto pilot for integrating |
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| system address books / stocks |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Data source administration dialog: |
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| file system based SDBC urls displayed in a decoded version now |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Changed runtime representation of |
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| form (control) macros |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">You can now rename tables,views and |
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| queries.</P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">All Applications</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">To benefit from the |
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| anti-aliasing options provided by the Graphics System under UNIX |
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| there are new options under Tools – Options -View. There's an |
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| additional check box "Screen Font Antialiasing<FONT FACE="Courier New, Courier, mono">,</FONT>" |
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| and a field where a pixel limit for the anti aliasing can be |
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| specified. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Ability to insert a special |
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| character such as <FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif">®:</FONT> |
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| “Insert - Special Character” added.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The temporary base directory |
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| can be configured by a user. The office creates its own temporary |
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| directories/files beneath this base directory.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The new file save dialogs allow |
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| saving with password only for OpenOffice.org XML file format.</P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">When the next document of the |
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| same type is created or opened, it gets the same window state as |
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| stored in the configuration. So you can have different default |
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| window sizes for every module in OpenOffice.org. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Transparency color controls at |
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| the 'Fade object' TabPage of 'Interaction' dialog have been |
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| removed. These controls are not needed anymore, because all |
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| necessary transparency calculations are made internally now. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The SDBC driver for accessing |
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| address data from various data sources (including address data of |
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| an existing Mozilla installation) now uses a configuration setting |
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| to determine which Mozilla profile should be used to log on to |
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| Mozilla.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Now the attributes listbox of |
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| the Find & Replace dialogue (only available if the writer is |
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| the current application) contains Asian and other new attributes. |
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| “Edit - Find & Replace”</P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="text-decoration: none">Help |
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| on Basic implemented. When the Basic IDE is open and the cursor on |
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| one word, when you press <F1> the help application tries to |
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| open a page matching to this word. |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress</H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Some names for presentation and |
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| interaction effects have been changed: <BR>Object effects:</P> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">"Discard From..." |
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| Becomes "Fly in from..." |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">"Discard Short From..." |
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| Becomes "Peek in from..." |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">"Drop From..." |
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| Becomes "Build up from..." |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Page effects:</P> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">"Move to..." Becomes |
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| "Uncover to..." |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Interactions :</P> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">"Move to..." Becomes |
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| "Fly out to..." |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">"Move Short to..." |
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| Becomes "Peek out to..." |
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| </P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">other builds</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">You can now import and export |
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| Asian line break settings in PowerPoint format.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The doctype used for SVG export |
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| has been upgraded to the latest specification.</P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western" STYLE="text-decoration: none">L10N |
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| (Localisation) project</H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Number of supported locales |
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| increased to 72, including 7 Asian locales. Euro support, including |
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| Greece. For more information on specific localisation please visit |
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| the webpage: http://l10n.openoffice.org/ |
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| </P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org Writer</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Additional label formats |
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| available.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Softhyphens and hyphenation |
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| behaviour improved.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western" STYLE="font-weight: medium">All |
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| platforms now support the "Selection Clipboard" concept |
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| familiar to users on UNIX platforms (such as Linux). Select any |
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| text (with the mouse or keyboard) and click the middle mouse |
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| button to paste it in at the current mouse position.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The width of borders in text |
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| frames and table cells is now displayed in the horizontal ruler.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Smooth underline now |
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| available.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">HTML support is improved with |
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| both Writer and Calc now supporting all HTML4 character entities |
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| (like €). Language support in HTML export is also now |
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| available. And OpenOffice.org Writer's HTML filter now saves and |
| |
| loads language information. |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Individual platform (such as |
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| Mac, DOS or UNIX) text filters have been removed. These have been |
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| replaced with the generic "Text (encoded)" filter.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Table autoformats store asian |
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| and complex font settings |
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| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">OpenOffice.org Calc</H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">MATCH() now works the same as |
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| in Excel.</P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The HTML import of Writer and |
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| Calc now supports all HTML4 character entities (like €). |
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| </P> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Table autoformats store asian |
| |
| and complex font settings |
| |
| </P> |
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| </UL> |
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| </UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"></P> |
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| </UL> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">General User |
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| Interface</SPAN> |
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| </H3> |
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| <UL> |
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| <UL> |
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| <LI><P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">There are three new Japanese |
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| paper sizes available at: "Format - Page - Page":</P> |
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| <PRE> B4 (JIS) 257 x 364 mm |
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| B5 (JIS) 182 x 257 mm |
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| B6 (JIS) 128 x 182 mm</PRE> |
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| </UL> |
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| </UL> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"><B><A HREF="#Index|region">Back to |
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| index.</A></B></P> |
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| </DIV> |
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| <DIV ID="Since SO 5.2"> |
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| <H2 CLASS="western"><B>What's new since StarOffice 5.2?</B></H2> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">The program has undergone some |
| |
| significant changes since StarOffice 5.2 was released. Some of these |
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| changes are: |
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| </P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">Removal of integrated desktop</H3> |
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| <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. |
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| In Windows versions of the program you can access these quickly |
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| using the Quick Start Menu. This was decided so we didn't force our |
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| own desktop on users.</P> |
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| <H3 CLASS="western">Componentization of word processing, spreadsheet |
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| and graphic application modules |
| |
| </H3> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"> The old StarOffice used the |
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| 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 |
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| OpenOffice.org suite.</P> |
| |
| <H3 CLASS="western">Removal of email and calendar and the schedule |
| |
| server |
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| </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://whiteboard.openoffice.org/groupware/index.html">http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/groupware/index.html</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">Asian 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"><BR><BR> |
| |
| </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. |
| |
| </P> |
| |
| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"><A HREF="#Index|region">Back to |
| |
| index.</A></P> |
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| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western"><BR><BR> |
| |
| </P> |
| |
| <P LANG="en-GB" CLASS="western">Insert copyright notices here. Not |
| |
| sure which ones yet. Probably Sun, Microsoft and Corel.</P> |
| |
| </DIV> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"><FONT FACE="Thorndale, serif">Document |
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| last updated 2002-04-18.</FONT></P> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"><FONT FACE="Thorndale, serif">Maintained |
| |
| by Nick Richards – <A HREF="mailto:nick@nedrichards.com">nick@nedrichards.com</A></FONT></P> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"><FONT FACE="Thorndale, serif">Additional |
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| contributions – Richard Holt.</FONT></P> |
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