Hello,
the OpenOffice.org 3.4 Alpha Release (build DEV300m101) is now available
on the download webpage.
We have created this build as usual OOo-Dev developer snapshot to give
you an impression about the ongoing development of OpenOffice.org.
If you find issues within this build please file them to
OpenOffice.org's issue tracking system BugZilla.
Download webpage:
http://download.openoffice.org/next
New Features:
See the list of hightlights below
Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m101_snapshot.html
MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m101_md5sums.txt
Best regards
Marcus
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Overview about some highlights in the OOo 3.4 Alpha Release
(DEV300m101). For a more technial description please see the Wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.4
Highlights
- Writer:
- Improved DOCX Import filter (Microsoft OOXML documents)
- Improved RTF export filter
- Calc:
- DataPilot:
- In the GUI, the term "DataPilot" has been replaced with the term
"Pivot Table". The default name for pivot tables has been changed
from "DataPilotN" to "PivotTableN" (N being a unique number).
- In the Pivot Table layout dialog, it is now possible to add more
than 8 fields to the "Row Fields", "Column Fields", and "Data
Fields" areas, and more than 10 fields to the "Page Fields" area.
- Chart:
- The size of a charts legend can be customized now.
- Charts (Column, Bar, Area, Line, Stock and Column&Line) can be
created with a date axis.
- Impress/Draw:
- "Better Defaults" from Renaissance Project. Many default settings
for colors, sizes, text, bullet points and slideshow were changed.
- Graphics export filters (bitmap only) now with DPI resolution
setting.
- Database:
- The Mozilla Address Book support has been removed, in favor of
support for the SeaMonkey address books.
- Math:
- Store only used symbols instead of all to decrease the document file
size.
- Formulas can be automatically aligned to match the baseline of the
formula with the one of the surrounding text.
- Printing:
- The CUPS print system that is used on Linux and other Unix operating
systems has switched its file format from PostScript to PDF. As part
of this OpenOffice.org is switching its print output file format to
PDF, too.
- API:
- With the new TabPageContainer (in UNO AWT) it is now possible to
create dialogs with multiple tab pages.
- The Undo feature is now accessible via API
- Improvements for the UI feature "Grid Control".
- Language support:
- Added locale data for the following languages:
- Lojban [jbo]
- Limbu_Nepal [lif-NP]
- Hawaiian [haw-US]
- Kabyle_Algeria [kab-DZ]
- Yiddish (USA) [yi-US]
- Sorbian, Lower [dsb-DE]
- Urdu (Pakistan) [ur-PK]
- Haitian [ht-HT]
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