Slashdot | OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released

Unfortunately this was posted on Slashdot.org before I read it elsewhere, so now the OpenOffice.org site is under heavy load. I have reproduced some information here in case you can’t get to it there.

Windows Downloads:
http://www.binarycode.org/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
http://openoffice.mirrors.pair.com/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
ftp://openofficeorg.secsup.org/pub/software/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
ftp://mirrors.umbc.edu/pub/editors/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip

Linux Downloads:
http://www.binarycode.org/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
http://openoffice.mirrors.pair.com/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
ftp://openofficeorg.secsup.org/pub/software/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
ftp://mirrors.umbc.edu/pub/editors/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz

MacOSX Downloads:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html#download

New features in OpenOffice.org 1.1rc over OpenOffice.org beta2 release

* a « talkback » style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information
* new command line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded
* ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations
* support for drawing objects in headers and footers
* an example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
* support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls
* UNO python bridge – python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org
* built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian
* built in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German and Russian
* integrated Bitstream Vera fonts
* improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC Features

2003-07-11
Enhanced file format support

* PDF (Portable Document Format) export
* Support for mailing a document as PDF.
* DocBook/XML import/export.
* XHTML export.
* Support for exporting as a flat XML file.
* Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export.
* Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel.
* Example xslt based filter for Office 2003 XML documents

Accessibility

* Support for full keyboard navigation and control
* Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings
* Support for accessibility in the help system and documents
* Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs

Internationalization
CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing

* Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames and graphic objects
* Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction is individualy selectable)
* Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex Text Layout (CTL)
* Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI
* Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents
* Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals
* The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected based on locale

Other Internationalization enhancements

* Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code pages.
* Support for the KOI8_U encoding.
* New CTL options tab in language options dialog.
* Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts.
* Sequence Input Checking (SIC) for languages like Thai and Hindi.
* Initial glyph fallback support.

MS Office compatibility enhancements
All components

* More accurate import and export of graphics objects
* Import and export of CJK and CTL documents
* Enhancements to overall stability and accuracy of conversion

Word

* Forms conversion within Word documents
* Improved import of text document layout

Excel

* Support for Data Validation
* Import/export of graphical details of charts

PowerPoint

* Even better one-to-one layout of text frames
* Improvements to import of WordArt objects

Writer

* Enhanced footnote support.
* Improved hyperlink support for TOCs.
* Improved keyboard handling in toolboxes.
* Plain text files are now imported using a non-proportional font.
* Configurable font for HTML and BASIC source code.
* Support for drawing objects in headers and footers

Draw/Impress

* Alternative language support for spell check on text drawing object.
* New command line option -start to start the presentation automatically after the document is loaded.

Spreadsheet:

* Import and export of areas in charts in Excel files that are formatted with bitmaps, textures or hatchings.
* The sum button inserts a sum function or a subtotal function, depending on context.
* Support for Excel 95 (and older) form controls

Database:

* Table control via keyboard navigation in table designer.
* Added ability to switch off brackets for bibliography fields.
* New database type in data source administration dialog – MySQL.
* Ability to add labels to field names in the report wizard.
* A data source can now use any character set known to OpenOffice.org.
* UI support for user installed database drivers.
* Database Report Wizard

Writing Aids

* Autodetection of newly installed languages for spellchecker, thesaurus and hyphenator.
* Integrated support for spell checking English (US and UK) and Italian
* Integrated support for hyphenation of Danish, English (UK and US), German and Russian
* Initial support for spell checking Hindi
* Spell checking uses n-gram scoring for suggestions

Programing and Automation

* Macro Recorder
* Crash reporter for collecting crash dump and error information
* Integrated Python-UNO bridge allowing creation of UNO components in Python
* A new java to native UNO bridge with up to 10 times better performance.
* Detection of a misconfigured Java installation.
* OpenOffice.org ActiveX Control (Windows only).
* Additional property pages for OpenOffice.org file types in Windows Explorer.

Other Enhancements

* The splash screen now has a progress bar.
* Improved online help content.
* Improved configurability of dialogs and toolbars.
* Improved URL autocompletion in hyperlink dialog.
* The context menu now contains ‘Open Hyperlink’ if opened on a URL.
* Locking of user installations against accesses from multiple machines with shared directories.
* Command line tools and an API for importing configuration data into the backend.
* Document windows are now always created in a cascade to avoid new window completely overlapping the old one.
* Support for registering add-ons and accessing add-ons via an auto-generated menu.
* New FTP file access component.
* The registration dialog will now display instead of addressbook data source selection on first run.
* Support for recovering slightly damaged OpenOffice.org files.
* New ppd file for generic postscript printing with type42 font support.
* Support for copy/paste of bitmap graphics on Unix.

Slashdot full article:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/15/1157247.shtml?tid=185