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OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 released

From:  "Craig A. Adams" <craigaa-AT-karg.co.za>
To:  announce-AT-openoffice.org
Subject:  [ooo-announce] OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1.2 - HAKONE
Date:  Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:24:58 +0200

OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1.2 - HAKONE

18 June, 2004 - 20H00 UTC

OpenOffice.org is proud to announce the immediate availability of the
new 1.1.2 version of the award-winning open source office suite,
codenamed Hakone.

This new version is initially available on the Windows
(98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC) and Solaris (SPARC and
X86) platforms.

In addition to English, builds for Czech, Danish, French, German,
Japanese and Slovak are immediately available with other localisations
following shortly.

Arriving less than three months after version 1.1.1, this release, yet
again, demonstrates the resolve of the OpenOffice.org community to
continuously improve and expand the functionality of the suite.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads
and installs fonts from various sources. In addition, this release
provides improved support for dBase database files, additional language
support, and improved XML export facilities.

The suite, according to the terms of its open source licenses (LGPL &
SISSL), is free for all to use, improve, modify, and to redistribute to
anyone.

OpenOffice.org Availability

The suite and it's source code can be downloaded from
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/index.html or obtained from one of
the CD-ROM distributors listed at
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/.


OpenOffice.org Support Services

Free end user support for OpenOffice.org is provided by the community
through mailing lists, forums and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels.
Commercial support is also provided by Sun Microsystems and other
organisations. For more information on support services, please visit
http://support.openoffice.org/.


About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org comes complete with word-processor, spreadsheet,
presentation, drawing, database tools and various other components and
provides a revolutionary open, future-proof XML file format, support for
which has recently been declared by the European Union Telematics
between Administrations committee.

OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community
of developers, users and marketers responsible for the on-going
development of the OpenOffice.org suite.

The mission of OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading
international office suite that will run on all major platforms and
provide access to all functionality and data through open-component
based APIs and an XML-based file format.


About Hakone

Hakone Town is a small hot-spring town in mountainous landscape near Mt.
Fuji. But in 17-18th century this town was also known as the "Hakone
barrier" in Tokaido High Road, defending Edo (Tokyo). Hakone is often
mentioned as a symbol of breakthrough. Shu Minari, the Japanese CD-ROM
project leader, lives near Hakone and is planning to take photos of
Hakone landscapes for a label and jacket design of 1.1.2 CD Japanese
version. When the project creates the 1.1.2 Hakone CD, it will show it
to Hakone Town Administration, Hakone Tourist Association and other
relevant organisations, and ask them if they can place the 1.1.2 Hakone
CDs at souvenir shops since we can also make a 1.1.2 Hakone CD English
version and other language versions.


OpenOffice.org Conference 2004

The annual OpenOffice.org conference will be held at Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany from 22 to 24 September 2004. Last year's
conference was extremely successful, attracting delegates from 35
countries. Premium sponsors of this year's event currently include
Software AG and Sun Microsystems.


Further Information

For release notes regarding version 1.1.2, please visit
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/release_notes_1.1.2.html.

For further details on the features of OpenOffice.org, please visit
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/index.html.

For previous press release information, please visit
http://www.openoffice.org/press/1.1/index.html.

For more information about Hakone, please visit
http://www.kankou.hakone.kanagawa.jp/index_e.html.

For details regarding the 2004 OpenOffice.org Conference, please see
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/.

For information on the European Commission TAC committee
recommendations, please see
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&parent=news&documentID=2387.


GLOBAL CONTACTS

Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead

jacqueline@openoffice.org
+61 (8) 9474-3021

John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead

jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (0)131 523 9218


© 2004 OpenOffice.org



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OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 released

Posted Jun 20, 2004 6:48 UTC (Sun) by dlapine (guest, #7358) [Link] (1 responses)

Don't know about the new fonts functions, but they did fix a bug in the spreadsheet app that was driving me nuts. The cursor would disappear in the editing window, if you went to edit the text in a cell and used the cursor keys in the edit bar. Works fine now.

It's the little things that keep users happy, I think.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 released

Posted Jun 22, 2004 0:01 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

You mean the big things:

1.0.1 had a problem where loaded spreadsheets opened with a vertical spacing of about .05mm. Made it difficult to read, eh what?

dbase files?

Posted Jun 20, 2004 14:22 UTC (Sun) by ccyoung (guest, #16340) [Link] (1 responses)

thoroughly commend all efforts on OO(O?)

but dbase? what about postgresql and mysql, where 95% of the action is?

from my experience, that would put a _lot_ of projects over the top in ability to use linux and/or sun instead of ms office.

dbase files?

Posted Jun 20, 2004 21:17 UTC (Sun) by arc (guest, #17097) [Link]

See http://dba.openoffice.org/. I haven't worked with MySQL, but you can access PostgreSQL via ODBC, JDBC and there is a new native postgresql driver under development (which already works nicely as long as you're not changing the tables via OO, just making queries). When the native driver is finished I think it will be fantastic -- it's already better than the ODBC driver in some respects.


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