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| <h2>What's New In OpenOffice.org 1.0?</h2> |
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| <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 – <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 – Richard Holt.</font></p> |
| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-before: auto"> </p> |
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| <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 |
| <printer name> <file 1> <file 2> ... <file n> |
| <br>where <br> -pt is the print-to command, <printer name> is |
| the name of a printer, and <file 1..n> is a list of files |
| separated with blanks. If filenames contain blanks, they have to be |
| enclosed in double quotation marks (i.e., "my document"). |
| </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->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 "Open |
| in design mode" in forms has changed from "On" to |
| "Off". |
| </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 "Name object" in the context menu and in the format |
| menu below the entry "Position and size" 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 "Name Object".</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 |
| ("Object x"). The UI name is also kept when cutting & |
| 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 "WordPerfect (Win) 6.0", "WordPerfect (Win) |
| 6.1" and "WordPerfect (Win) 7.0" have been grouped |
| together, now forming a single entry in the 'File Open' dialog, |
| "WordPerfect (Win) 6.0 - 7.0". |
| </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 ("text documents", |
| "spreadsheets", 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 |
| "File/Templates/Organize/Commands/Update” 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 |
| "Organize templates dialog" as well as in the old "New |
| from template" 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 "Tools |
| - Options – OpenOffice.org - Security", 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">"c:\some |
| where</font>", the correct SDBC API URL would be |
| "<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">sdbc:<span lang="en-GB">dbase</span>:file://c|/some%20where</font>". |
| But now the dialog displayes "<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">sdbc:<span lang="en-GB">dbase</span>:file://c|/some |
| where</font>". |
| </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 – Options -View. There's an |
| additional check box "Screen Font Anti-aliasing", 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">®:</font> |
| “Insert - Special Character” 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 & 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. “Edit - Find & Replace”</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 <F1> 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">"Discard From..." |
| becomes "Fly in from..." |
| </p> |
| <li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">"Discard Short From..." |
| becomes "Peek in from..." |
| </p> |
| <li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">"Drop From..." |
| becomes "Build up from..." |
| </p> |
| </ul> |
| <p lang="en-GB" class="western">Page effects:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">"Move to..." becomes |
| "Uncover to..." |
| </p> |
| </ul> |
| <p lang="en-GB" class="western">Interactions :</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">"Move to..." becomes |
| "Fly out to..." |
| </p> |
| <li><p lang="en-GB" class="western">"Move Short to..." |
| becomes "Peek out to..."</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 "Selection Clipboard" 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 €). 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 "Text (encoded)" 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 €). |
| </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: "Format - Page - Page":</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> |
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| <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. |
| </p> |
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