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OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

JoeBuck — Sun, 05 Oct 2003 05:12:47 +0000

"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).

How different from RC5

cross — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:27:31 +0000

No differences. Just did a diff on the two unpacked trees to make sure.

How different from RC5

barrydavies — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:14:42 +0000

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1.0/release_notes_1.1.html

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

conman — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:41:02 +0000

Yes it does.

-ck.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

eyal — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:22:40 +0000

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.

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.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

coriordan — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:31:32 +0000

This post and reply appeared on newsforge.com:

> 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.

Both comments were posted anonymously.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

dlang — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:10:11 +0000

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

trutkin — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:59:25 +0000

That's great to hear. My main complaint was the startup time. Which really isn't that much
of a complaint anyways, IMHO.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

coriordan — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:41:48 +0000

Much as I hate software cheerleaders (especially desktop software cheerleaders), I have to chime in to say OOo 1.1 is great.

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.

How different from RC5

captrb — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:37:44 +0000

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.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

torsten — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:25:21 +0000

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....

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

dr_lha — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:16:21 +0000

As someone who's been using the RC candidates for a while let me say what's improved in this release:

1) It's Faster!
2) It's better at importing files
3) It's generally better.

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.

How different from RC5

gbailey — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:57:26 +0000

Looks like it's RC5 renamed:

$ 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

How different from RC5

alspnost — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:43:51 +0000

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

rknop — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:35:41 +0000

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.)

-Rob

OpenOffice.org 1.1 released

trutkin — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:34:03 +0000

They don't really say what the new features are. They just list a bunch of features and you
have to know the old OpenOffice to figure out what's new and what's old.