OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 observations (on Mandrake Linux 9.1)
Posted Aug 17, 2003 16:50 UTC (Sun) by
leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3
It's fast, the Flash export is beyond cool (can't wait to see that fancied up, either), lots
of extra configurability stuff, the installation picked up my dictionaries from 1.0.3
without any hints from me, it has a Macro Recorder again (yay!) that even seems to
work, the PDF export is great (loses antialiasing but does much other right-stuff like
the whole page in background colour rather than a rectangle of background
superimposed on a white real background) [now I have 3 ways to turn MS-Word docs
into PDF: OOo, CUPS and SaMBa :-], it starts quickly (with a progress bar on the
splash) and runs quickly, the child windows are now native rather than being rendered
and framed within OOo, thousands of little additions like the provision for margins
before/after sections and the beginnings of a more comprehensive approach to odd
paper layouts ("Brochure" print mode), you don't have to wait nearly as much, the
Gallery works more smoothly (drag-n-drop doughnuts :-), if you kill it you get more
stuff restored (like the gallery view) than before, there's a whole passel of extra
language stuff in there, they've sped stuff up, it deals more intelligently with linked
items (think OLE), you can do XSLT-style XML filtering, and did I mention that it was
fast? (-:
Still missing: scanning didn't work for me (I could preview but pulling stuff in did
nothing and on the second pass crashed - the error report thingo did its thing well
though - Xsane works fine), PostgreSQL support doesn't work (and isn't bundled),
there's no config option for the size of the file/open history that I could find, it lost the
paper size for my default printer (reverted to Letter when I use A4) and set the scaling
to 1%.
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