OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
| From: | Louis Suarez-Potts <louis@openoffice.org> | |
| To: | announce@openoffice.org | |
| Subject: | [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 1.1 | |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:10:31 -0700 | |
| Cc: | discuss-openoffice.org <discuss@openoffice.org>, users@openoffice.org |
All, After months of testing, improvement, waiting, OpenOffice.org 1.1 is here for you to download. http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1.0/index.html It is final, finished, ready to be used. It's also in English right now; different languages will be ready shortly. Check with your Native-Lang project for updates (http://native-lang.openoffice.org/ ). This build has, as we have learned, many new features that no other office suite has yet to think of. Our list of features is here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/ We have made this release a media event. We have sent out a press release, have a press kit, and are making every effort to broadcast information of this build. You too can help: Download the build and tell others about it. It is free, runs on every major platform, and is being progressively translated to every major language. And, of course, if you come across something that needs improving, file an issue (http://www.openoffice.org/project_issues.html ). - Louis Suárez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help@openoffice.org
Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:34 UTC (Wed)
by trutkin (guest, #3919)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 17:16 UTC (Wed)
by dr_lha (guest, #86)
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1) It's Faster! Really - I'm very pleased with the improvements in 1.1, the startup time especially. I've actually stopped using VMWare + MS Office to edit my work documents as well as it's much better at importing MS files. Great stuff.
Posted Oct 1, 2003 18:41 UTC (Wed)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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No crashes yet for me and it's opened every word document I've received in the last month. It's also the best (and only) wysiwyg PDF creator I've seen for GNU/Linux.
Posted Oct 1, 2003 18:59 UTC (Wed)
by trutkin (guest, #3919)
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Posted Oct 5, 2003 5:12 UTC (Sun)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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"It's faster!" is an understatement; it is vastly faster. And it now understands the bullets in my company's standard PowerPoint template (1.0.1 messed them up).
Posted Oct 1, 2003 18:25 UTC (Wed)
by torsten (guest, #4137)
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From this article:
"OpenOffice.org spokesman Sam Heiser told internetnews.com that the two most significant enhancements in version 1.1 of the suite are faster load times -- one of the primary criticisms of earlier versions of the suite -- and a modernized, contemporary look and feel."
I'll bet there are a few bug fixes as well, but this indicates to me that OpenOffice.org is pretty much feature complete. I could think of a few things to add, for example, I want a script L in the equation editor for laplace transforms....
Posted Oct 2, 2003 2:31 UTC (Thu)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:35 UTC (Wed)
by rknop (guest, #66)
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-Rob
Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:43 UTC (Wed)
by alspnost (guest, #2763)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 18:37 UTC (Wed)
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Posted Oct 2, 2003 13:14 UTC (Thu)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:57 UTC (Wed)
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Posted Oct 2, 2003 13:27 UTC (Thu)
by cross (guest, #13601)
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Posted Oct 1, 2003 19:10 UTC (Wed)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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Posted Oct 2, 2003 4:41 UTC (Thu)
by conman (guest, #14830)
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-ck.
Posted Oct 2, 2003 3:22 UTC (Thu)
by eyal (subscriber, #949)
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I've tested OO 1.1rc4 with Hebrew and it works very well and even imports Hebrew Word documents rather nicely. While this may not seem important for the Western majority, support for non-Latin languages is (was?) one of Microsoft's last standing advantages over free solutions. I'm glad to see this advantage dissovling with the advent of recent version of Gnome, OpenOffice, KDE and Koffice. Eyal.
They don't really say what the new features are. They just list a bunch of features and you OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
have to know the old OpenOffice to figure out what's new and what's old.
As someone who's been using the RC candidates for a while let me say what's improved in this release:OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
2) It's better at importing files
3) It's generally better.
Much as I hate software cheerleaders (especially desktop software cheerleaders), I have to chime in to say OOo 1.1 is great.OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
That's great to hear. My main complaint was the startup time. Which really isn't that much OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
of a complaint anyways, IMHO.
OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
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> I hope that the Linux/Solaris version of OO.org will use GTK2 on version 1.2.
You'll be glad to hear that this is in the works. The plan is for all of OpenOffice to be implemented in OOo's toolkit, and for that toolkit to have wrappers for whatever the native toolkit of each platform is.
The idea has some resemblance to how WxWindows works. It reduces duplication of work.
This, however, is a non-trivial task. I think it's planned for version 2.0.
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I downloaded RC5 a few days ago. Is this just RC5 renamed, or did any bugs get fixed? (I'm wondering if it's worth the redownload or not.)How different from RC5
Fair question - I couldn't find an actual changelog anywhere. But anyway, I can't imagine that anything changed since RC5, and if you're not encountering any problems, it certainly isn't worth another 60MB download! I'm still running RC2 at home, with no bugs biting me so far....
How different from RC5
How different from RC5
That's irritating. OpenOffice.org doesn't seem to follow traditional
release conventions. The Eclipse project seems to have the same issue.
I guess I'm not surprised, though, considering their respective origins.
How different from RC5
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1.0/release_notes_1.1.html
Looks like it's RC5 renamed:
How different from RC5
$ gunzip -Nl OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
78347712 81459200 3.8% Oo_1.1rc5_LinuxIntel_install.tar
No differences. Just did a diff on the two unpacked trees to make sure.How different from RC5
does this release of OO avoid the sched_yield problem that older versions have with the 2.5/2.6 kernels?
OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
Yes it does.OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
There an important new feature in OpenOffice 1.1, and that is CTL support. CTL means Complex Text Layout, which includes languages with complicated character sets such as Chinese, and Right-to-Left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic.OpenOffice.org 1.1 released