OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3

[Posted August 15, 2003 by ris]

From:		Louis Suarez-Potts <louis@openoffice.org>
To:		announce@openoffice.org
Subject:		[ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3
Date:		Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:39:36 -0700
Cc:		discuss-openoffice.org <discuss@openoffice.org>, users@openoffice.org


All,
OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 is ready for download.  It incorporates some 
bugfixes and significantly advances the development of the Mac OS X 
port.  OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 is the first version to support building 
out of the box on Mac OS X.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 is functionally equivalent to the final version, 
which is coming soon.  What we want you to do is download this and try 
to find the bugs.  That is important. We need people to run this under 
all sorts of circumstances.

Download from here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1rc3/

Download and test and file issues. This is your chance to help make the 
best office suite in the world better.

Cheers,

Louis Suárez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org


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Posted Aug 16, 2003 2:23 UTC (Sat) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

I'm very impressed with OOo. I just bought a new laptop (retiring my venerable Toshiba 2805-S202 I bought in Feb 2001) and had an option to buy MS Office XP Pro with Acrobat for the unbelievably good price of $399 with system purchase; sorry, I run Windows on my laptops and Linux on my (ever increasing number of) servers. Anyway, I chose WordPerfect Office (cause there wasn't a "none" option...). Today I received my new laptop (from D**l) and was happy to download RC3 (thanks to this story on LWN!) which does what I need for business docs and PDFs.

However, I also bought a laptop for our Sr VP of Business Development from D**l and for her I bought Office XP Pro with Acrobat. Although I can handle the few (and getting fewer) filtering differences between MS Office and OOo, I know she can't. In fact, one difference I noticed had to do with an inefficient and inaccurate method for centering titles and text blocks in PowerPoint: spaces instead of tabs or "center". In PP, it looked centered on multiple machines and in print. In OOo it was noticably skewed. Minor, I know. She should learn the right way, I know. But it's different behavior.

Still, when I show other execs and secs how simply (and cheaply) OOo creates marvellous PDFs, they drool. I do own Acrobat (bought it before OOo 1.1a was available) and it is so incredibly piggish and awkward for creating and manipulating PDFs as to discourage its use. Especially capturing scanned images compared to OOo.

I have a lot of hope. Most people have no idea I'm not using MS Office when I send or receive documents. What I need to get done gets done with ease and comfort. As OOo matures and expands I can see it replacing at least the low-end of installed Office Suites (in the form of Sun's Star Office, perhaps). I know our COO would like to replace expensive MS Office with Open Office.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3

Posted Aug 16, 2003 7:25 UTC (Sat) by jarek (guest, #4105) [Link]

I can only agree. The PDF button is becoming a killer feature for OOo. I have stopped using MS Word completely now that EMF (graphics file) inclusion and PDF export works as it does. I can read MS Office files sufficiently well and I send PDF when I need to.
OOo/SO is becoming a very nice tool for engineers, btw, with its drawing tool and math editor (at least for people that like(d) TeX).
There are things that are not so nice, like throwing away my table formats during update to rc3, but it's deffinitely getting there.
I could not get around with 1.0 but with 1.1, I can.

/jarek

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3

Posted Aug 17, 2003 4:11 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

me three.

OpenOffice 1.1-rc<something> just entered Debian unstable. I wrote a 3 page document and it generated a refreshingly small 16k PDF for me.

Killer feature indeed.

(I'm not sure what release candidate this is, it's refered to as "OpenOffice.org 1.1 645(Build:8639)", the debian package says "-rc1" but that's just the pacakge name, it could be the debian package version)

Ciaran O'Riordan

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3

Posted Aug 19, 2003 8:09 UTC (Tue) by otterley (guest, #3500) [Link]

Is OOo's PDF generator capable of generating hyperlinks (for things like clicking on a TOC entry and jumping right to the page)? Or is only Acrobat still the only game in town for that?

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 observations (on Mandrake Linux 9.1)

Posted Aug 17, 2003 16:50 UTC (Sun) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

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%.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3

Posted Aug 18, 2003 17:25 UTC (Mon) by libra (guest, #2515) [Link]

I nearly managed some people (very conservative ones) to use it. It can prints brochure, which is something they needed, but unfortunately the document to print contains some transparent pictures (very small ones, but at least 2 or 3 by page). And we noticed that printing those transparent object was creating ENORMOUS print job, that were long to spool, and longer to print.
I noticed that asking for a reduction in quality of those pictures was indeed transforming the whole pages as pictures in poor quality (instead of creating little low quality bitmaps around the transparent objects and preserving the texts around). This single "bug" is enough to prevent some people from adopting the product, I feel a little sad, and nobody seemed to take notice of me already mentionning the problem on oooforum.org.
I hope the problem will be resolved anyway, because openoffice.org really deserves widder adoption.