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 <h2>OpenOffice.org 1.1 Features</h2>
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 2003-09-24</p>

 <h3>Enhanced file format support</h3>
 	<ul>
 	<li>PDF (Portable Document Format) export</li>
 	<li>Support for mailing a document as PDF.</li>
 	<li>DocBook/XML import/export.</li>
 	<li>XHTML export.</li>
 	<li>Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export.</li>
         <li>Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel.</li>
 	<li>Example xslt based filter for Office 2003 XML documents
 	</ul>

 <h3>Accessibility</h3>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Support for full keyboard navigation and control
 	<li>Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings
 	<li>Support for accessibility in the help system and documents
 	<li>Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs
 	</ul>

 <h3>Internationalization</h3>
 	<h4>CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing</h4>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames and graphic objects
 	<li>Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction is individualy selectable)
 	<li>Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex Text Layout (CTL)
 	<li>Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI
 	<li>Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents
 	<li>Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals
 	<li>The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected based on locale
 	</ul>
 	<h4>Other Internationalization enhancements</h4>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code pages.</li>
 	<li>Support for the KOI8_U encoding.</li>
 	<li>New CTL options tab in language options dialog.</li>
 	<li>Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts.</li>
         <li>Sequence Input Checking (SIC) for languages like Thai and Hindi.</li>
 	<li>Initial glyph fallback support.</li>
 	</ul>
 <h3>MS Office compatibility enhancements</h3>
 	<h4>All components</h4>
 	<ul>
 	<li>More accurate import and export of graphics objects
       <li>Import and export of CJK and CTL documents
  	<li>Enhancements to overall stability and accuracy of conversion
 </ul>
 	<h4>Word</h4>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Forms conversion within Word documents
 	<li>Improved import of text document layout
 	</ul>
 	<h4>Excel</h4>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Support for Data Validation
 	<li>Import/export of graphical details of charts
 	</ul>
 	<h4>PowerPoint</h4>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Even better one-to-one layout of text frames
 	<li>Improvements to import of WordArt objects
 	</ul>

 <h3>Writer</h3>
       <ul>
         <li>Enhanced footnote support.</li>
         <li>Improved hyperlink support for TOCs.</li>
 	<li>Improved keyboard handling in toolboxes.</li>
 	<li>Plain text files are now imported using a non-proportional font.</li>
         <li>Configurable font for HTML and BASIC source code.</li>
 	<li>Support for drawing objects in headers and footers
       </ul>
 <h3>Draw/Impress</h3>
       <ul>
         <li>Alternative language support for spell check on text drawing object.</li>
 	<li>New command line option -start to start the presentation automatically after the document is loaded.
       </ul>

     <h3>Spreadsheet:</h3>
 	<ul>
 	<li>Import and export of areas in charts in Excel files that are formatted with bitmaps, textures or hatchings.</li>
 	<li>The sum button inserts a sum function or a subtotal function, depending on context.</li>
 	<li>Support for Excel 95 (and older) form controls
 </ul>


 <h3>Database:</h3>
     <ul>
 	<li>Table control via keyboard navigation in table designer.</li>
 	<li>Added ability to switch off brackets for bibliography fields.</li>
 	<li>New database type in data source administration dialog - MySQL.</li>
 	<li>Ability to add labels to field names in the report wizard.</li>
 	<li>A data source can now use any character set known to OpenOffice.org.</li>
 	<li>UI support for user installed database drivers.</li>
 	<li>Database Report Wizard
 </ul>

 <h3>Writing Aids</h3>
   <ul>
 	<li>Autodetection of newly installed languages for spellchecker, thesaurus and hyphenator.</li>
 	<li>Integrated support for spell checking English (US and UK) and Italian
 	<li>Integrated support for hyphenation of Danish, English (UK and US), German and Russian
 	<li>Initial support for spell checking Hindi
 	<li>Spell checking uses n-gram scoring for suggestions
   </ul>

 <h3>Programing and Automation</h3>
 <ul>
 	<li>Macro Recorder</li>
 	<li>Crash reporter for collecting crash dump and error information
 	<li>Integrated Python-UNO bridge allowing creation of UNO components in Python
 	<li>A new java to native UNO bridge with up to 10 times better performance.</li>
         <li>Detection of a misconfigured Java installation.</li>
         <li>OpenOffice.org ActiveX Control (Windows only).</li>
         <li>Additional property pages for OpenOffice.org file types in Windows Explorer.</li>
 </ul>

 <h3>Other Enhancements</h3>
       <ul>
 	<li>Windows 98 users need not download unicows.dll</li>
         <li>The splash screen now has a progress bar.</li>
         <li>Improved online help content.</li>
         <li>Improved configurability of dialogs and toolbars.</li>
 	<li>Improved URL autocompletion in hyperlink dialog.</li>
 	<li>The context menu now contains 'Open Hyperlink' if opened on a URL.</li>
 	<li>Locking of user installations against accesses from multiple machines with shared directories. </li>
 	<li>Command line tools and an API for importing configuration data into the backend.</li>
 	<li>Document windows are now always created in a cascade to avoid new window completely overlapping the old one. </li>
 	<li>Support for registering add-ons and accessing add-ons via an auto-generated menu.</li>
 	<li>New FTP file access component.</li>
 	<li>The registration dialog will now display instead of addressbook data source selection on first run.</li>
 	<li>Support for recovering slightly damaged OpenOffice.org files.</li>
 	<li>New ppd file for generic postscript printing with type42 font support.</li>
 	<li>Support for copy/paste of bitmap graphics on Unix.</li>
       </ul>

 <p>
 A <a href="index.html">Graphical presentation</a> of the highlights is also available.
 </p>

 </body>
 </html>
	<html><head>
	<meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
	</head>
	<body>
	<h2>OpenOffice.org 1.1 Features</h2>
	<p>
	2003-09-24</p>

	<h3>Enhanced file format support</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>PDF (Portable Document Format) export</li>
	<li>Support for mailing a document as PDF.</li>
	<li>DocBook/XML import/export.</li>
	<li>XHTML export.</li>
	<li>Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export.</li>
	<li>Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel.</li>
	<li>Example xslt based filter for Office 2003 XML documents
	</ul>

	<h3>Accessibility</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Support for full keyboard navigation and control
	<li>Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings
	<li>Support for accessibility in the help system and documents
	<li>Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs
	</ul>

	<h3>Internationalization</h3>
	<h4>CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing</h4>
	<ul>
	<li>Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames and graphic objects
	<li>Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction is individualy selectable)
	<li>Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex Text Layout (CTL)
	<li>Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI
	<li>Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents
	<li>Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals
	<li>The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected based on locale
	</ul>
	<h4>Other Internationalization enhancements</h4>
	<ul>
	<li>Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code pages.</li>
	<li>Support for the KOI8_U encoding.</li>
	<li>New CTL options tab in language options dialog.</li>
	<li>Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts.</li>
	<li>Sequence Input Checking (SIC) for languages like Thai and Hindi.</li>
	<li>Initial glyph fallback support.</li>
	</ul>
	<h3>MS Office compatibility enhancements</h3>
	<h4>All components</h4>
	<ul>
	<li>More accurate import and export of graphics objects
	<li>Import and export of CJK and CTL documents
	<li>Enhancements to overall stability and accuracy of conversion
	</ul>
	<h4>Word</h4>
	<ul>
	<li>Forms conversion within Word documents
	<li>Improved import of text document layout
	</ul>
	<h4>Excel</h4>
	<ul>
	<li>Support for Data Validation
	<li>Import/export of graphical details of charts
	</ul>
	<h4>PowerPoint</h4>
	<ul>
	<li>Even better one-to-one layout of text frames
	<li>Improvements to import of WordArt objects
	</ul>

	<h3>Writer</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Enhanced footnote support.</li>
	<li>Improved hyperlink support for TOCs.</li>
	<li>Improved keyboard handling in toolboxes.</li>
	<li>Plain text files are now imported using a non-proportional font.</li>
	<li>Configurable font for HTML and BASIC source code.</li>
	<li>Support for drawing objects in headers and footers
	</ul>
	<h3>Draw/Impress</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Alternative language support for spell check on text drawing object.</li>
	<li>New command line option -start to start the presentation automatically after the document is loaded.
	</ul>

	<h3>Spreadsheet:</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Import and export of areas in charts in Excel files that are formatted with bitmaps, textures or hatchings.</li>
	<li>The sum button inserts a sum function or a subtotal function, depending on context.</li>
	<li>Support for Excel 95 (and older) form controls
	</ul>


	<h3>Database:</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Table control via keyboard navigation in table designer.</li>
	<li>Added ability to switch off brackets for bibliography fields.</li>
	<li>New database type in data source administration dialog - MySQL.</li>
	<li>Ability to add labels to field names in the report wizard.</li>
	<li>A data source can now use any character set known to OpenOffice.org.</li>
	<li>UI support for user installed database drivers.</li>
	<li>Database Report Wizard
	</ul>

	<h3>Writing Aids</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Autodetection of newly installed languages for spellchecker, thesaurus and hyphenator.</li>
	<li>Integrated support for spell checking English (US and UK) and Italian
	<li>Integrated support for hyphenation of Danish, English (UK and US), German and Russian
	<li>Initial support for spell checking Hindi
	<li>Spell checking uses n-gram scoring for suggestions
	</ul>

	<h3>Programing and Automation</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Macro Recorder</li>
	<li>Crash reporter for collecting crash dump and error information
	<li>Integrated Python-UNO bridge allowing creation of UNO components in Python
	<li>A new java to native UNO bridge with up to 10 times better performance.</li>
	<li>Detection of a misconfigured Java installation.</li>
	<li>OpenOffice.org ActiveX Control (Windows only).</li>
	<li>Additional property pages for OpenOffice.org file types in Windows Explorer.</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Other Enhancements</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Windows 98 users need not download unicows.dll</li>
	<li>The splash screen now has a progress bar.</li>
	<li>Improved online help content.</li>
	<li>Improved configurability of dialogs and toolbars.</li>
	<li>Improved URL autocompletion in hyperlink dialog.</li>
	<li>The context menu now contains 'Open Hyperlink' if opened on a URL.</li>
	<li>Locking of user installations against accesses from multiple machines with shared directories. </li>
	<li>Command line tools and an API for importing configuration data into the backend.</li>
	<li>Document windows are now always created in a cascade to avoid new window completely overlapping the old one. </li>
	<li>Support for registering add-ons and accessing add-ons via an auto-generated menu.</li>
	<li>New FTP file access component.</li>
	<li>The registration dialog will now display instead of addressbook data source selection on first run.</li>
	<li>Support for recovering slightly damaged OpenOffice.org files.</li>
	<li>New ppd file for generic postscript printing with type42 font support.</li>
	<li>Support for copy/paste of bitmap graphics on Unix.</li>
	</ul>

	<p>
	A <a href="index.html">Graphical presentation</a> of the highlights is also available.
	</p>

	</body>
	</html>