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| <H2>OpenOffice.org 1.1 Features</H2> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="darkblueleft"><A |
| NAME="NEWS"></A><B>Introduction</B> </TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">OpenOffice.org 1.1 - word |
| processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool and more</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="tableF0"> <BR>OpenOffice.org 1.1 is an |
| open, feature-rich multi-platform office productivity suite. The user interface |
| and the functionality is very similar to other products in the market like |
| Microsoft Office or Lotus SmartSuite, but compared to these commercial products |
| OpenOffice.org is absolutely free.<BR><BR>A full description of the application |
| can be found on the product pages at: |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="darkblueleft"><A |
| NAME="NEWS"></A><B>Highlights</B> </TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Word Processor</TD> |
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| <TD><A HREF="images/writer.jpg"><IMG |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org Writer is a |
| full-featured word processor. The powerful Navigator and Stylist tools make |
| changing the formatting throughout a document a simple task.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Spreadsheet</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org Calc |
| provides full spreadsheet functionality incl. a huge number of statistical and |
| scientific functions, pivot tables and charts.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Presentation Tool</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org Impress is |
| a full-featured presentation tool that allows to create and modify diagrams and |
| pictures right within the application.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Drawings and Diagrams</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org Draw is a |
| drawing tool that supports both vector and bitmap images. The powerful |
| Connectors allow to easily complex diagrams and org charts.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Database Access</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">With the database tools in |
| OpenOffice.org users can easily access and analyze data, create complex reports |
| or do a mail merge based on a customer database. Many open source and |
| commercial database systems are supported.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Microsoft Office |
| Compatibility</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org is able to |
| read and write Microsoft Office files. This allows users to open and save Word, |
| Excel and PowerPoint files on their preferred platform incl. Windows, Linux and |
| Solaris.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">One-click Export to PDF</TD> |
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| <TD><A HREF="images/export_pdf_swf.jpg"><IMG |
| SRC="images/pdf_export_th.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="89" BORDER="0"></A></TD> |
| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org 1.1 |
| introduces the one-click PDF export feature that enables you to easily create |
| PDF files without the need for any additional third party software. This |
| feature makes exchanging documents in a standard "read-only" file format a |
| trivial task. The creation of PDF files normally requires relatively expensive |
| third party add-on tools. With OpenOffice.org this feature comes for free.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Export to Flash (.SWF)</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org now can |
| export presentations and drawings to the Macromedia Flash format (.swf). Thus, |
| it's now possible to view presentations in a simple web browser that has the |
| Flash plugin installed. Recipients and users of Flash presentations don't have |
| to install a special viewer anymore in order to view a presentation.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Accessibility</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org 1.1 can now |
| be used by handicapped people - for example people with sight problems. |
| OpenOffice.org 1.1 provides a high contrast mode, and together with additional |
| tools (see <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/access/">http://www.sun.com/access/</A>) |
| it's even possible to use special entry devices.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Support for many native |
| languages</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org 1.1 |
| introduces functionality like bi-directional and vertical writing that is |
| required for many native languages. This allows OpenOffice.org 1.1 to be |
| translated into Japanese, Hebrew and many other languages that have |
| sophisticated text layout requirements. In addition the OpenOffice.org project |
| has an increasing number of |
| <A HREF="/projects/native-lang.html">native-language |
| projects</A> where users can access OpenOffice.org information in their native |
| language.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Open XML File Format</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">The default file format in |
| OpenOffice.org is an open XML file format defined in a 500-page specification |
| document. Every OpenOffice.org file is a ZIP archive containing separate XML |
| files for the content, styles, settings and meta data. OASIS is using the |
| OpenOffice.org file format as the basis for the creation of a industry wide |
| standard for an open office document file format. For ordinary end users this |
| means that the content of documents can still be accessed and used even if |
| OpenOffice.org would go away.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">API and File Format Compatible |
| with StarOffice 7[tm] Office Suite</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">Since the |
| <A HREF="http://wwws.sun.com/staroffice">StarOffice 7[tm] Office Suite</A> is |
| based on OpenOffice.org 1.1 both application suites are API and file format |
| compatible. Sun Microsystems, Inc., the founder and main sponsor of the |
| OpenOffice.org project, is providing support, training, enterprise tools and |
| services for the StarOffice 7 Office Suite. More details about the relationship |
| and the feature differences between OpenOffice.org and the StarOffice product |
| can be found in |
| <A |
| HREF="http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/docs/SO_Comparison_OOo.pdf">a |
| comparison document</A> on the <A |
| HREF="http://www.sun.com/openoffice">OpenOffice.org page</A> at sun.com. Other |
| office suites that are API and file format compatible with OpenOffice.org will |
| soon be listed on the OpenOffice.org website. In order to get your |
| OpenOffice.org based/compatible product included in that list please contact |
| <A HREF="mailto:erwin.tenhumberg@sun.com">Erwin Tenhumberg</A> or |
| <A HREF="mailto:louis@collab.net">Louis Suarez-Potts</A>.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Macro Recorder</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">The new macro recorder |
| records and automates recurring tasks. For more sophisticated programming tasks |
| the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) can be used. The SDK provides |
| libraries, tools and documentation for the Java programming language, C++, |
| Basic, OLE and XML. The SDK is a separate download.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">3rd Party Add-ons</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">The new add-on framework |
| and the new deployment tool (the "pkgchk" utility) allow developers to easily |
| include new components and 3rd party add-ons into an existing OpenOffice.org |
| installation.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">XML File Filter Tool</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">The new XML file filter |
| tool makes it easy to integrate new import or export file filters that are |
| based on XSL transformations. A popular use case for the XML filter tool is the |
| support for the new Microsoft Office 2003 XML file formats.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">ActiveX Control</TD> |
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| <TD><A HREF="images/activex_control.jpg"><IMG |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org 1.1 comes |
| with an ActiveX control that allows users to view OpenOffice.org documents |
| within a browser window (Internet Explorer) on the Windows platform. The |
| ActiveX control can also be used within native applications developed in |
| Microsoft VisualBasic or Borland Delphi.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Support for DocBook and PDA File |
| Formats</TD> |
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| <TD><A HREF="images/docbook_aportis_doc.jpg"><IMG |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org allows |
| users to export OpenOffice.org documents to popular file formats like DocBook |
| or various small device file formats like AportisDoc. This gives users the |
| possibility to carry their documents with them on their Palm Pilots and Pocket |
| PC PDA's.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">MySQL Integration</TD> |
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| <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">OpenOffice.org now has |
| support for MySQL databases, i.e. the open source database can be used for mail |
| merge activities and the creation of reports. The combination of OpenOffice.org |
| and MySQL (or another supported database) allows users to do tasks that many |
| people used to solve by using products like Microsoft Access.</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="darkblueleft"><A NAME="NEWS"></A><B>More |
| Information</B> </TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">Complete OpenOffice.org 1.1 |
| Feature List</TD> |
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| <LI><A |
| HREF="features-text.html">//dev_docs/features/1.1/features-text.html</A></LI> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">OpenOffice.org 1.1 Product |
| Page</TD> |
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| <TD COLSPAN="4" CLASS="liteblue">OpenOffice.org 1.0.x |
| Features</TD> |
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| Central</TD> |
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